[pickleRick243]

Agent harnesses have barely been available for a year, and reasonably reliable for only half, and there's already fatigue. I think this says less about whether LLM's will actually be able to program and more about how mentally exhausting AI-assisted programming can be, which involves a higher frequency of decision making and reading an astronomical amount of both code and prose if you actually want to stay on top of what the agent is doing to your codebase. This personal/psychological exhaustion and negative sentiment is now being inaccurately transferred into a pessimistic prognosis for the advancement of the technology itself.

[sevenseacat]

https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/ai-assisted-engineers-ar...

[jappgar]

The technology doesn't have an existence outside how people use it.

If everyone who uses it correctly finds it frustrating, and if the only people who love it produce a mountain of unmantainable slop, we will quickly abandon it to the dustbin of history.

A lot of things have "potential" but never amount to anything.

We're going to keep using LLMs but the utility of agentic coding has already peaked in my opinion.