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Maybe I'm dating and deprecating myself in a single stroke, but I genuinely struggle seeing a productivity increase from agentic coding. I try, I retry, like every 2-3 weeks. I always end up tired and slow, either from hand-holding in real time or spending hours undoing the slop.

22/5/26, 7:12 am2 reposts5 likes

Oskar Wickström

@wickstrom.tech

22 May

And this is like a broken record, but yes, some things it does help with (the silly scripts, the CI YAML hell, etc). I just can't seem to get it to hit my quality bar without a lot of effort, which obviously isn't the purpose.

Oskar Wickström

@wickstrom.tech

22 May

This is not a moral stance. It's not me saying these things aren't sometimes useful, or that they aren't very impressive anyway. It's an observation of the current practical applicability in my overall work. YMMV.

Matt Green

@mattgreenrocks.bsky.social

22 May

They are not good at writing production code. Full stop. They are okay-ish at the skill equivalent of copy/pasting from Stack Overflow, which some see as a sufficient bar of programming because it appears to work.

Oskar Wickström

@wickstrom.tech

22 May

Yeah I think that's a good framing. It's depressing how some people look at quality now.