alt Hacker News> Coding agent are now replacing the IDE and code is now mostly written by the agents.
If you're doing that, you are producing slop. So it should be called out as slop.
> Coding agent are now replacing the IDE and code is now mostly written by the agents.
If you're doing that, you are producing slop. So it should be called out as slop.
I did not say I don't read any produced code; I said I don't write it manually. What I wanted to demystify is that you can generate everything with AI and still put a lot of work into design choices, good code structure, and so on, without producing any slop.