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Everyone hates AI, but do you even know how a coding agent actually works? It's hilarious:
LLMs mess up indentation, constantly mix tabs and spaces, get line endings wrong, hallucinate diff line numbers and produce completely broken patches. So the harness throws increasingly desperate fuzzy matching at the problem and blindly tries to apply whatever sticks.
This is software engineering now. Apparently.
@fribbledom Truly, the "enough monkeys on typewriters" design ethos of our era.
@fribbledom@mastodon.social also they keep throwing that broken code at the wall over and over until it compiles, that's why sloppers are flocking to languages like rust 
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keep throwing that broken code at the wall over and over untił it compiles
that's how I write C++ template and constexpr code by hand too tbh 😁
@jcm @fribbledom @jay0 But only for of fraction of the cost, energy and resources of an LLM! No no, that can't be serious, numbers must go high.
@fribbledom I honestly dont know how to code! I know a bit a bout basic logic and math. The people I follow? My family members? They know much more! And they tell me that this thing we use to weave together so much?
It can't even reliably tie its shoes when you pose it dynamic questions that require it to WORK. It just lies and hopes it's correct like some fucked up manager
@fribbledom Yeah, agentic coding probably came out of an LLM company brainstorm about how to get people to spend more tokens. “Wrap the chatbot in a for-loop and call it an agent!”