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Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars... Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools

Jeremy Morrell
@jeremymorrell.dev

I’ve had some moderate success with agentic loops in solo projects, but have a lot more failure in Real Work Projects™️ with lots of contributors and history and tons of hidden context Still useful for sketching solutions or asking questions of the codebase! But far short of a lot of the hype

Jeremy Morrell
@jeremymorrell.dev

I’m not sure if the failure is my own or shortcomings of today’s tools though yet. I keep trying

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Jay.
@meangrape.com

That's an interesting point. I'm in a 4 person company so, by default, we tend to work in silos so all of my experience (which is good) has been in single-person projects