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Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me

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399 points nomdep | 1 comments | 17 Jun 25 00:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.44s | source
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marssaxman ◴[17 Jun 25 03:44 UTC] No.44295573[source]▶
So far as I can tell, generative AI coding tools make the easy part of the job go faster, without helping with the hard part of the job - in fact, possibly making it harder. Coding just doesn't take that much time, and I don't need help doing it. You could make my coding output 100x faster without materially changing my overall productivity, so I simply don't bother to optimize there.
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1. nsonha ◴[17 Jun 25 13:54 UTC] No.44299268[source]▶
No software engineer needs any help if they keep working in the same stack and problem domain that they already know front to back after a few years doing the same thing. They wouldn't need any coding tool even. But that a pretty useless thing to say. To each their own.