alt Hacker News> It sounds to me like you may not have used a lot of these tools yet
And this is more and more becoming the default answer I get whenever I point out obvious flaws of LLM coding tools.
Did it occur to you that I know these flaws precisely because I work a lot with, and evaluate the performance of, LLM based coding tools? Also, we're almost 4y into the alleged "AI Boom" now. It's pretty safe to assume that almost everyone in a development capacity has spent at least some effort evaluating how these tools do. At this point, stating "you're using it wrong" is like assuming that people in 2010 didn't know which way to hold a smartphone.
Sorry no sorry, but when every criticism towards a tool elecits the response that people are not using it well, then maybe, just maybe, the flaw is not with all those people, but with the tool itself.
Spending 4 years evaluating something that’s changing every month means almost nothing, sorry.
Almost every post exalting these models’ capabilities talks about how good they’ve gotten since November 2025. That’s barely 90 days ago.
So it’s not about “you’re doing it wrong”. It’s about “if you last tried it more than 3 months ago, your information is already outdated”