Mixed
I've had to spend a lot of time recently helping it with context from debuggers, or just debugging myself manually
overgard on Hacker News
In the thread “Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust”, replying to this comment
Helped: AGENTS.md files, type system, and comments for context.
Got in the way: Inconsistent tool usage and difficulty debugging non-trivial issues.
… By definition most of the things that break are things that are not trivially testable. Unfortunately, it's not as easy as saying "Claude, the thing broke, plz fix"; I've had to spend a lot of time recently helping it with context from debuggers, or just debugging myself manually, adding log statements, etc. Am I giving the agent enough context? …