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MixedJunie · 21 Jan 2026

I just give it easy, neatly defined tasks

atraac on Hacker News

In the thread “Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?”

Helped: Easy, neatly defined tasks and one-off tools.

Got in the way: Tends to mess up sometimes; not trusted for advanced features.

In my case, I use JetBrains Junie(it uses various models underneath) and it mostly works fine, but I don't vibe code entire products with it, I just give it easy, neatly defined tasks. Improve readme, re-implement something using the same approach as X, create a script that does Y etc. …