Gary Bernhardt: coding agents produce 'absolute nonsense' on fix-the-code tasks
teropa · x · 2026-11-13
Developer Gary Bernhardt shares an extreme-but-representative experience running "fix the code" tasks through a coding agent (Sonnet 6.1 high): the agent produced a torrent of "absolute nonsense." His takeaway: read the code and do the job yourself. The thread resonated widely as a familiar frustration with agentic coding quality.
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