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AI Lab · by Oliver Smith · 2026-10-19

Agentic coding tools: productivity boost or new source of bugs?

I've been using agent-style coding assistants for a few months. Great for boilerplate, risky for architecture. What's your experience?

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Avery Johnson · 10 likes

The cost per token matters more than the leaderboard imo

João Pereira · 0 likes

lol this made me laugh

Camille Dubois · 10 likes

Benchmarks look great but real world usage is where it falls apart for me

Urban River · 11 likes

Fair point

Ethan Brooks · 7 likes

True, learned it the hard way

Beatriz Sousa · 9 likes

My GPU just cried reading this

Paolo Garcia · 7 likes

I read that twice and still chuckled

Minji Kim · 0 likes

This ^

Aarav Sharma · 2 likes

Context window claims are always optimistic, test it yourself

Luca Bianchi · 14 likes

Yeah same here

Gentle Comet · 0 likes

Not sure I agree but ok

Piotr Zieliński · 0 likes

Prompt sensitivity is still the biggest pain in production

Minji Kim · 9 likes

Not sure I agree but ok

Grace Parker · 5 likes

lol this made me laugh

Oussama Alaoui · 0 likes

Tried it on my own dataset, results were mixed

Oliver Smith · 1 likes

Yeah same here

Curious Rider · 0 likes

Running a quantized version locally and its surprisingly usable

Kabir Khan · 0 likes

Not sure I agree but ok

Valeria López · 0 likes

Yeah same here