Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?
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Oct 29, 2026First seen
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- Oct 29, 2026
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Why are good developers so wary of agentic development? was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Oct 29, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 2 checks on 1 different day. Its best position was #22 of 29, reached on Oct 29, 16:22 UTC. It dropped off the list after Oct 29, 16:22 UTC.
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> Good developers’ caution about agentic development comes from knowing that built isn’t the same as working in production...I always felt there was something else, another fear hiding behind those obvious ones. It's not fear. It's experience. I've seen the kind of code agents write. And it's too often crap even when…
Because LLM's can do amazing things, but they can also make huge blunders. Claude constantly makes incorrect assumptions, or implements the wrong thing, or claims there is a bug when there is not..... On the other hand its VERY fast at finding and fixing some bugs, and finding problems before they hit production.…
> How much can we trust a system when nobody has experience of building it this way? If humans are no longer reading the LLM outputs and internalizing the codebase themselves, there's no longer much point to source code. The coding assistant might as well take a natural language prompt and directly hand you an ELF…
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Is Why are good developers so wary of agentic development? trending on Hacker News right now?
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What is the highest rank Why are good developers so wary of agentic development? reached?
#22 on Hacker News · Front page, on Oct 29, 16:22 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has Why are good developers so wary of agentic development? been trending?
It was first seen on Oct 29, 2026 and has been on the list on 1 day (2 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
17 points and 13 comments; submitted by torutofu on Oct 29, 2026.