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0 pointsalentred1y ago0 comments

To be fair, I think the most value is added by Agent modes, not autocomplete. And I agree that AI-autocomplete is really quite annoying, personally I disable it too.

But coding agents can indeed save some time writing well-defined code and be of great help when debugging. But then again, when they don't work on a first prompt, I would likely just write the thing in Vim myself instead of trying to convince the agent.

My point being: I find agent coding quite helpful really, if you don't go overzealous with it.

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Draiken1y ago

Are you using these in your day job to complete real world tasks or in greenfield projects?

I simply cannot see how I can tell an agent to implement anything I have to do in a real day job unless it's a feature so simple I could do it in a few minutes. Even those the AI will likely screw it up since it sucks at dealing with existing code, best practices, library versions, etc.

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ActionHank1y ago

The few times I've tried to use an agent for anything slightly complex or on a moderately large code base it just proceeds to smeer poop all over the floor eventually backing itself into a corner.

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