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0 pointsalwillis4mo ago0 comments

> these agents are not up to the task of writing production level code at any meaningful scale

This is obviously not true, starting with the AI companies themselves.

It's like the old saying "half of all advertising doesn't work; we just don't which half that is." Some organizations are having great results, while some are not. From the multiple dev podcasts I've listened to by AI skeptics have had a lightbulb moment where they get AI is where everything is headed.

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verdverm4mo ago

Not a skeptic, I use AI for coding daily and am working on a custom agent setup because, through my experience for more than a year, they are not up to hard tasks.

This is well known I thought, as even the people who build the AIs we use talk about this and acknowledge their limitations.

comp_throw74mo ago

I'm pretty sure at this point more than half of Anthropic's new production code is LLM-written. That seems incompatible with "these agents are not up to the task of writing production level code at any meaningful scale".

verdverm4mo ago

how are you pretty sure? What are you basing that on?

If true, could this explain why Anthropics APIs are less reliable than Gemini's? (I've never gotten a service overloaded response from Google like I did from Anthropic)

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0 pointsalwillis4mo ago0 comments

> these agents are not up to the task of writing production level code at any meaningful scale

This is obviously not true, starting with the AI companies themselves.

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verdverm4mo ago

Not a skeptic, I use AI for coding daily and am working on a custom agent setup because, through my experience for more than a year, they are not up to hard tasks.

This is well known I thought, as even the people who build the AIs we use talk about this and acknowledge their limitations.

comp_throw74mo ago

verdverm4mo ago

how are you pretty sure? What are you basing that on?

If true, could this explain why Anthropics APIs are less reliable than Gemini's? (I've never gotten a service overloaded response from Google like I did from Anthropic)

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