Comment by imtringued

This is correct. People seem to get the wrong idea about why agentic coding is even a thing in 2026. The naive AI techno optimist which has basically displaced the vast majority of opinions on HN, thinks that the models got "smarter" [0]. No, the training distribution shifted towards training on agentic sessions which made certain forms of agentic coding "in-distribution".

We are still witnessing the same underlying problems of transformers.

[0] Think back to all the publicity stunts like the Hugging Face. They are meant to convince you that the agents have somehow progressed past the transformer limitations when those publicity stunts are actually expressions of transformer limitations.