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NoTool not named · 21 Jul 2025

the code any of these generate is subpar (a junior would get the PR rejected for what it produces)

RamblingCTO on Hacker News

In the thread “The current hype around autonomous agents, and what actually works in production”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Subpar code quality and loss of developer understanding.

… we tried coding agents, agentic coding, LLM-driven coding whatever. the code any of these generate is subpar (a junior would get the PR rejected for what it produces) and you just waste so much time prompting and not thinking. people don't know the code anymore, don't check the code and it's all just gotten very sloppy. …