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NoTool not named · 5 Feb 2026

I would personally call it a failure, and the project is quietly being wound down after only a few months

SaberTail on Hacker News

In the thread “Ask HN: Has your whole engineering team gone big into AI coding? How's it going?”

Helped: Generating code very fast and checking off requirements at an amazing pace.

Got in the way: Agents made things worse by adding defensive code and failing to fit context.

I was on a greenfield project late last year with a team that was very enthusiastic about coding agents. I would personally call it a failure, and the project is quietly being wound down after only a few months. It went in a few stages: …