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Blackthorn | 1 day ago

Pretty favorably, because the coding agents suck.

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raw_anon_1111|1 day ago

So do junior devs. I’ve gotten great results treating coding agents as junior devs where I keep my hands on the wheel

Blackthorn|1 day ago

Some of you folks think way too highly of yourselves. Junior devs are awesome. You tell them what needs doing, if it's not well defined you have them write a document to figure it out, and then they churn away at it and will often surprise you with a brilliant solution.

Meanwhile, I've never once seen a coding agent give a brilliant solution or design to just about anything, and anything with the barest whiff of undefined-ness will simply zero in on your existing biases.

This whole thread reads like absolute insanity to me. I love getting new junior devs. They do great work.