alt Hacker NewsWhen was the last time you tried?
I think trying agents to do larger tasks was always very hit or miss, up to about the end of last year.
In the past couple of months I have found them to have gotten a lot better (and I'm not the only one).
My experience with what coding assistants are good for shifted from:
smart autocomplete -> targeted changes/additions -> full engineering
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> When was the last time you tried?
Pretty recently (a couple weeks ago). I give agentic workflows a go every couple of weeks or so.
I should say, I don't find them abysmal, but I tend to work in codebases where I understand them, and the patterns really well. The use cases I've tried so far, do sort of work, just not yet at least, faster than I'm able to actual write the code myself.
> My experience with what coding assistants are good for shifted from:
> smart autocomplete -> targeted changes/additions -> full engineering
Define "full engineering". Because if you say "full engineering" I would expect the agent to get some expected product output details as input and produce all by itself the right implementation for the context (i.e. company) it lives in.
I’m not OP but every time I post a comment with this sentiment I get told “the latest models are what you need”. If every 3 months you are saying “it’s ready as long as you use the latest model”, then it wasn’t ready 3 months ago and it’s not likely to be ready now.
To answer your question, I’ve tried both Claude code and Antigravity in the last 2 weeks and I’m still finding them struggling. AG with Gemini regularly gets stuck on simple issues and loops until I run out of requests, and Claude still just regularly goes on wild tangents not actually solving the problem.