Mixed
You can never trust what they've done and need to spend so much time verifying their solution that you may as well have just done it yourself in the first place
bilalq on Hacker News
In the thread “Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me”
Helped: AI code reviewers catching real issues and Copilot predicting next keystrokes.
Got in the way: Agents producing untrustworthy solutions requiring excessive verification time.
I've found "agents" to be an utter disappointment in their current state. You can never trust what they've done and need to spend so much time verifying their solution that you may as well have just done it yourself in the first place. However, AI code reviewers have been really impressive. …