Comment by jedisct1

Pretty much my experience as well, although I would highly recommend Roo Code + Claude (via the API) to build entire projects, and Claude for "batch" tasks or finalization.

AI models are trained on data that can be 1 or 2 years old. And they're trained of what the saw the most. So, language changes, breaking API changes, dependencies that don't work any more, name changes, etc. are going to get them super confused.

Go indeed works well because of its standard library that avoids the need for many dependencies, and its stability.

I found PHP to actually be the best target language for coding agents. For the same reasons, and also for the ton of documentation and example code available. That doesn't prevent agents from automatically using some modern PHP features, applying static analysis tools, etc.

For frontend stuff, agents will almost always pick React + Tailwind because this is what they saw the most. But Tailwind 4 is very different from Tailwind 3, and that got them super confused.