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		asdev on Jan 26, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tool touted as 'first AI software engineer' is bad... Are we finally realizing the "AI Agents" are complete snake oil? Cron jobs and while loops with non deterministic crappy behavior?

Forge36 on Jan 26, 2025 | [–]

I've found targeted agents work best. Of course this also means I now have ~8 different tools I can choose to search with.

They aren't generic and the output needs to be monitored.

cloudking on Jan 26, 2025 | [–]

The only one I've found useful so far is Cursor Agent mode, but yes generally agree there's a lot of marketing going on

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