Thread

The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding

114 points · 89 comments · haute_cuisine

JV00 · 1790954927 · focus · HN ↗
Disagree on the slop point. By now the code of frontier models works well, and the need to read it is gone. The Claude word salad problem was pretty much solved with the 5.5 opus release.
The other 3 points made in article make sense though.
1. fwlr · 1790959079 · focus · HN ↗
  The Claude word salad was certainly dialed back somewhat, but there are still a few flies in the soup, so it’s far from solved.
  1. JV00 · 1790961308 · focus · HN ↗
    Ok, if when it happens you just tell it, it does rewrite it better. Not always human coworkers can do that :)
    fwlr · 1791014700 · focus · HN ↗
    Yes, there’s always flies in the soup, and sometimes they just serve you a whole plate of insects, but you can’t beat the price. Just ask the waiter to get you a soup with less flies, and keep doing that until the number of flies is acceptable to you.
    How about, no thanks, I’ll go to a real restaurant.

Unofficial Hacker News client; not affiliated with Y Combinator.