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Senior Developer Questions Agentic LLM Productivity
5.9
On 1/14/2026, a senior developer recounts finding LLMs useful for searches, documentation, and limited coding but says agentic LLM "vibe coding" proved disappointing. They report agentic workflows required heavy babysitting, produced incorrect small changes, and criticized evangelists' hostile framing, while acknowledging potential personal bias and openness to being proven wrong.
Key Points
- 1Reports that agentic LLMs require extensive babysitting and often produce slow, incorrect small-code changes.
- 2Highlights evangelists' insistence creates hostility and frames skeptics as fearful or unwilling to adapt.
- 3Recommends cautious adoption: test agentic workflows thoroughly and maintain manual oversight for correctness.
Scoring Rationale
Personal, firsthand critique provides practical insight but is single-author opinion lacking empirical data or benchmarks.
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