Skepticism About Agentic AI Hype: Questioning the Push for Autonomous Coding When Models Struggle with Basic Tasks
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Summary
The author expresses strong skepticism about the current hype around 'agentic' AI and coding, questioning why there's a push for autonomous AI agents when current models struggle with basic instructions. They argue that models cannot be trusted to make background changes and that only people who want to deal with resulting issues would embrace this trend.
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· 4 pulledHow are you using cursor for agentic/background coding?
what is behind this hype machine of agentic coding and agentic everything when we are yet to confidently have any model complete a single simple instruction???
how then are we supposed to trust models to be making changes in the background???
i think only folks that want to get an headache from fighting to fix tons of issues resulting from this agentic hype machine are the only ones...
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