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> They're amazing. But the moment you try to do the more "serious" work with them, it falls apart rapidly.

Sorry, but this is just not true.

I'm using agents with a totally idiosyncratic code base of Haskell + Bazel + Flutter. It's a stack that is so quirky and niche that even Google hasn't been able to make it work well despite all their developer talent and years of SWEs pushing for things like Haskell support internally.

With agents I'm easily 100x more productive than I would be otherwise.

I'm just starting on a C++ project, but I've already done at least 2 weeks worth of work in under a day.



I’m going to ask what I’ve asked the last person here who said they are “10-20x” more productive:

If you’re really that more productive, why don’t you quit your job and vibecode 10 ios apps (in your case that would be 50 to 100 proportionally)


Because money? Even if you can quickly build them it’s pointless if you can’t sell them. And Claude cannot help with that.


Share the codebase and what you're doing or, I'm sorry, you're just another example of what I laid out above.

If you honestly believe that "agents" are making you better than Goole SWEs then you severely need to take a step back and reevaluate, because you are wrong.


Hold the phone. So, Google, with its legions of summa cum laude engineers, can't make this stack work well, but your AI agent is nailing it into next week? Seriously, show me the way, so I too may find AI enlightenment.


What do you mean “with agents”?


I've been using mainly gemini-cli and am starting to play around with claude code.


Are you referring to those as agents or do you mean spinning separate/multiple agents out of sessions on them?




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