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Where Do AI Coding Agents Fail?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15195
2•kioku•1h ago

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stevefan1999•1h ago
Already kind of failing me at doing thing in the best practices of Rust. Coding agents, even Opus 4.5 I'm using, tends to split into function when you can put that under an impl Into or TryInto, or just put that into impl member, not `pub fn do_this(user: &User)` but instead `User::do_this(&self)`

I always have to tell the agent to use functional iterators and itertools all the time but it still prefers to use primitive for loop and push into a mutable array. Not that it doesn't get the thing done but please when you can iter collect why can't you use them

It also lacks the ability to use high level data structure such as bit vector and matrices. I doubt they could use even harder stuff such as B+ tree, red black tree or Fibonacci heap...

In my experimentation in building vibewasm, a wasm engine using a binding that I wrote the low layer of sljit manually, and I instructed Opus 4.5 to build a wasm engine out of it, and take in designs from other wasm engine that is based on sljit but in C or C++...pwart and walrus to be specific

I have a specific case on the use of bit vector, at least for Opus, it always tend to use hash/btree set for this.

I have to explicitly explain and tell Opus that the way you are marking the register can be represented as a bit vector, because the number of registers are bounded (15) and bit vectors will have an ultimate space save. But a next refactor attempt to rewrite the SSA layer into RTL (register transfer language that targets sljit), the same mistake happened again. It turns out my prompt of following previous design didn't work, or Opus simply just couldn't justify that bit vector is the best despite user requirements.

I have to revert that change and do it myself.

Tesla scraps models in pivot to AI

https://www.ft.com/content/78d53ce6-a731-496c-8d8b-e53bc35f49a8
1•nutjob2•1m ago•0 comments

Why Linux wound up with system package managers

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/WhySystemPackageManagers
1•bariumbitmap•1m ago•0 comments

Tempura – A Weather Forecast TUI

https://github.com/1a/tempura
1•CaptainV•1m ago•1 comments

Valve Developer Improves Aging AMD APUs on Linux with VRR, DP/HDMI Audio, HDR

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-DC-Improved-GCN-1.1-APUs
1•speckx•1m ago•0 comments

How I would hack Clawdbot users (from the pov of a UX designer)

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1•donji•2m ago•0 comments

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1•PaulHoule•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a new compression algorithm

https://github.com/BrowserBox/LZW-X
1•keepamovin•3m ago•0 comments

Shrinking a language detection model to under 10 KB

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1•gkbrk•5m ago•0 comments

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https://www.neuroforge.de/post/tips-for-using-cursor-for-agentic-programming-in-productive-teams-...
1•ancieque•5m ago•0 comments

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1•gmemstr•6m ago•0 comments

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1•digitcatphd•8m ago•0 comments

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An interactive tool to visualize data on the foreign-born population in Spain

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1•dnetesn•11m ago•0 comments

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1•francis_lewis•12m ago•0 comments

Intranasal drug delivery achieves therapeutic levels in the brain

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2•tmikaeld•12m ago•0 comments

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Radicle Plugin for Claude Code

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The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala

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2•bishabosha•15m ago•0 comments

From Pratt parsing to the Dijkstra shunting yard

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2•fanf2•15m ago•0 comments

Custom AI vs. Off-the-Shelf Platform for Large Enterprises in 2026?

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Atomic variables are not only about atomicity

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1•itzlambda•21m ago•0 comments

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2•bookofjoe•24m ago•1 comments

The Case for AI Optimism

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1•hecanjog•28m ago•0 comments

Gov't to notify people of possible data leaks, not just confirmed cases

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1•campuscodi•31m ago•0 comments