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NoChatGPT · 9 Oct 2025

the agent mode has gone from somewhat-useful to complete waste of time

hansmayer on Hacker News

In the thread “Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at”, replying to this comment

Helped: Using AI as a replacement for search.

Got in the way: Agent mode became useless.

… Recently we had to scale back their usage to just consulting mode, i.e. because the agent mode has gone from somewhat-useful to complete waste of time. We are now back to using them as replacement for the now entshittified search. …