Neil Henning6d ago
I wrote up a thing about the AI coding agents https://www.neilhenning.dev/posts/five-stages-grief/
Five Stages of Grief With the Rise of AI

I tried copilot in VS Code sometime in 2025 and was thoroughly disappointed with its ability. It felt like a really bad auto-complete at best, making plenty of mistakes and generally being utterly irritating to actually use with its need to constantly pop in as I was typing with long form coding suggestions that were often wrong. I was already predisposed to being negative about AI due to the usual mix of reasons and wrote off all the AI coding tools as useless.

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Show threadChad Austin
@neilhenning Running local models (gpt-oss, qwen3) _on the CPU_ in my closet at 100 watts and getting better model performance than what flagship models provided 18 months ago is also wild.
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Show threadJon Valdés5d ago
@chadaustin @neilhenning this is the one thing that gives me a bit of hope. Being doomed forever to depend on some corporation to rent programming tools from would be a nightmare. But if the open models keep getting better we can reclaim (a bit of) that independence