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liszper ◴[18 Sep 25 13:55 UTC] No.45289744[source]▶

most SWE folks still have no idea how big the difference is between the coding agents they tried a year ago and declared as useless and chatgpt 5 paired with Codex or Cursor today

thanks for the article, it's a good one

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1. realusername ◴[18 Sep 25 14:51 UTC] No.45290435[source]▶

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I tried again recently and I see absolutely no difference. If there's been some improvement, it's very subtle.

There's a big difference with their benchmarks and real world coding.

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