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Kyle Fox
@kylefox.com

For the time being I've given up on agentic coding. Seems like no matter which model or tool I use, and no matter how much I finesse prompts — it just generates a frustrating mess more often than not. That said, I still constantly use AI as a coding sidekick for stuff like:

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Kyle Fox
@kylefox.com

- Reference: faster than looking through API docs - Cleanup: "Make this code more idiomatic and concise, using the latest libraries" - Brainstorming: "I need to do <thing>, I have ideas <a, b, c>, help me evaluate them and suggest alternatives" - Troubleshooting: "why isn't this code working?"

Kostja Palović
@kostja.me

As we can see, all of it is not about creatine code but using your input to generate some either improvement or .. "derivative" for the lack of a better word. That AI does good. But generating code? Absolutely terrible. The more codebases I see done by ppl "I made MVP w cursor" the more I am sure