Mixed
I have found Claude Code and Codex to be tremendously helpful for my web development work. But my results for writing Zig are much worse
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In the thread “Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025”, replying to this comment
Helped: Web development tasks
Got in the way: Writing Zig code
Agent performance depends massively on the work you do. For example, I have found Claude Code and Codex to be tremendously helpful for my web development work. But my results for writing Zig are much worse. The gap in usefulness of agents between tasks is very big. …