Dev on AI coding's biggest pain point: models are still too stupid, slow and expensive
remilouf · x · 2026-09-22
Quoting mitsuhiko's question about the biggest struggles with AI in software engineering, developer willcb answers in one line: the models are still too stupid, slow and expensive. A terse but representative take on current capability, latency and cost bottlenecks in AI-assisted coding.
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