About whether AI coding agents can build major features without getting stuck.
Has this happened?
Yes 42 (34%)Not sure 77 (62%)No 5 (4%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether AI coding agents can build major features without getting stuck.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
eventually get to a point where I have to re-write major pieces of the code to extract the agent from some major ditch it has driven into, leading to a failure to make forward progress.
As it stands AI can't even get out of Lt Surge's gym in Pokemon Red. When an AI manages to beat Lance I'll start to think about using it for writing my code :-)