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The agents still write bad code unless my colleagues and the people who submit PRs to the repos I am responsible for somehow use agents from last year. And, no
by jeltz 27d ago
The agents still write bad code unless my colleagues and the people who submit PRs to the repos I am responsible for somehow use agents from last year.
And, no, it is not a question about style or preferences, the code is messy and contains to me as a maintainer obvious bugs.
- tvink 27d ago>still write bad code unless my colleagues and the people who submit PRs It's interesting you feel comfortable to comment with such authority on the capability of a tool you don't even use... Lisp is a bad programming language because my 10 year old brother wrote some really bad stuff, btw!
- christophilus 27d agoI use them. The top 3 models still write terrible code, regardless of harness. They’ll litter the code with safety checks for scenarios we’ve already guaranteed won’t happen. And they’ll solve problems you didn’t ask them to, and they’ll come up with a working, but convoluted solution. They’ll sometimes write really weird code if you’re using them in an obscure language. Basically, they still need a human guiding them pretty closely unless you’re happy to just ship a mountain of vibe coded mush. That said, I haven’t tried Astra in earnest yet. We’ll see in a few weeks whether or not it is a step change.