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0 pointscyberpunk4mo ago0 comments

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..

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Etheryte4mo ago

On 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.

simonw4mo ago

Are you using them via a coding agent harness such as Codex CLI or Gemini CLI?

cyberpunkOP4mo ago

Via 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..

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