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We have gpt-5 and gemini 2.5 pro at work, and both of them produce huge amounts of basically shit code that doesn’t work. Every time i reach for them recently
by cyberpunk 1y ago
We have gpt-5 and gemini 2.5 pro at work, and both of them produce huge amounts of basically shit code that doesn’t work.
Every time i reach for them recently I end up spending more time refactoring the bad code out or in deep hostage negotiations with the chatbot of the day that I would have been faster writing it myself.
That and for some reason they occasionally make me really angry.
Oh a bunch of prompts in and then it hallucinated some library a dependency isn’t even using and spews a 200 line diff at me, again, great.
Although at least i can swear at them and get them to write me little apology poems..
- simonw 1y agoAre you using them via a coding agent harness such as Codex CLI or Gemini CLI?
- cyberpunk 1y agoVia the jetbrains plugin, has an 'agent' mode and can edit files and call tools so on, yes I setup MCP integrations and so on also. Still kinda sucks. shrug. I keep flipping between this is the end of our careers, to I'm totally safe. So far this is the longest 'totally safe' period I've had since GPT-2 or so came along..
- Etheryte 1y agoOn the sometimes getting angry part, I feel you. I don't even understand why it happens, but it's always a weird moment when I notice it. I know I'm talking to a machine and it can't learn from its mistakes, but it's still very frustrating to get back yet another here's the actual no bullshit fix, for real this time, pinky promise.