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NoChatGPT · 23 Mar 2026

Agents are completely useless in projects like these

Capricorn2481 on Hacker News

In the thread “Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: LLMs hallucinate methods in legacy spin-offs and lack visual feedback.

… So if something is an offshoot of OctoberCMS, ChatGPT is just going to make up a bunch of methods from OctoberCMS even if they are completely invalid in this project. Agents are completely useless in projects like these. E) Local models aren't there yet, and the fact that the entire industry is cool with letting their skills atrophy so hard that they are completely dependent on the livelihoods and structures of a few companies they hadn't even heard of 5 years ago is deeply concerning and unprofessional. …