Mixed
Had I chose Python, JS, C, C#, Java, the agent would have finished 20x faster
DeathArrow on Hacker News
20x faster
In the thread “Less human AI agents, please”
Helped: Using small tasks, good tests, and common languages.
Got in the way: Writing a simple CLI tool in Zig caused many errors.
… It was hard to fix the code so the tests pass. Had I chose Python, JS, C, C#, Java, the agent would have finished 20x faster. So, if you keep in mind what the agent was trained on, if you use a good harness, if you have good tests, if you divide the work in small and independent tasks and if the current task is not something very new and special, you are golden.