About whether developers are really falling behind by not adopting AI coding agents.
Has this happened?
Yes 72 (65%)Not sure 32 (29%)No 6 (5%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether developers are really falling behind by not adopting AI coding agents.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I have a really simple app that I asked various models to build, but it requires interacting with an existing website.
(“Scrape kindle highlights from the kindle webpage, store it in a database, and serve it daily through an email digest”).
No success so far in getting it to do so without a lot of handholding and manually updating the web scraping logic.
It’s become something of a litmus test for me.
So, maybe there is some FOMO but in my experience it’s a lot of snake oil. Also at work, I manage a team of engineers and like 2 out of 12 clearly submit AI generated code. Others stopped using it, or just do a lot more wrangling of the output.