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Ask HN: Is "agentic" coding working for everyone except me?

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I'm a solo developer, working on my own for my startup. I use AI/LLMs extensively in my work to explore new ideas, but the vast majority of my code is manually written. I feel like the industry is passing me by and I'm just not "getting" AI-assisted coding. Has anyone struggled with something similar and been able to better adopt AI in your coding workflows?I use Codex, etc. for basic scaffolding, documentation, updating tests, double checking my approach/ideas, code review, rubber duck-ing. Its like how I used to use Google and Stack Overflow pre-AI but on steroids. But I can't get to a point where I can delegate real coding work to it. The problem is three-fold: 1. My code reading speed might very well be slower than my code writing speed. When I read the AI generated code I have to adopt/internalize the AI's mental model of the code flow and then reason through the correctness of the code, which (for a language I'm familiar with) is about the same as just... writing it myself. 2. Th...

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