Comment by troupo
3 days ago
> You won't be 'underwhelmed' long.
"Yes, it sucks now, but believe me it won't be for long" spiel has been hyped for several years now.
Oh, don't get me wrong, these tools are amazing. But just yesterday a very small refactoring resulted in 480 fully duplicated lines in a 5000-line codebase (on top of extremely bad DB access patterns) despite all the best shamanic rituals this world has to offer [1].
So yeah, senior engineers especially use these tools daily, and keep being completely honest about their issues and shortcomings. Unlike the hype and scam artists.
[1] Oh, sorry. I meant to say skills, context engineering and management, memory, prompt engineering.
" But just yesterday a very small refactoring resulted in 480 fully duplicated lines in a 5000-line codebase (on top of extremely bad DB access patterns) despite all the best shamanic rituals this world has to offer."
Get better rituals. PEBCAK.
Yeah yeah. There exists some secret ritual known only to the selected elite that make these tools perfect, no mistakes.
(The only people who say that are scammers and peddlers, and the only people who believe that are juniors or don't know how to code at all)
I'm a senior at a F200, I'm actually tired of listening to you assholes here. I always thought people here knew more than me; it's not fucking true.
I'm not some starry eyed junior; I have built multi-modal agents being used in production on government contract work in the field, right this second.
You all can go fuck yourselves, you neo-luddites will be the first out the door. Good riddance.
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