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post-ittoday at 10:43 AM3 repliesview on HN

It's really good at writing code.


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loloquwowndueotoday at 11:34 AM

It’s really good at writing bad code - something that superficially works but is badly architected, abstracted, or wrong in a subtle way.

Only a novice would look at ai code and say “wow this is good”.

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aaronblohowiaktoday at 10:49 AM

It’s good at all kinds of stuff that is search adjacent, “find amesent parks with water feature within 100 miles of me that have rv parking nearby”, etc

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champagnepapitoday at 11:00 AM

Ehhhhh it’s faster at typing code. Writing in a full agentic mode, we’ve only experienced slop.

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