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I would love to experience this, but I'm only at the level were I occasionally open ChatGPT or Claude, asked it a question, and then get frustrated because it can't even give me a straight answer, or makes incorrect assumptions.

I can't even imagine having multiple agents write code that somehow works.

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Same here. I've tried agent integrations in VS Code and also have agentic CLIs installed (Claude Code, Gemini cli). But honestly, I still find it more reliable, and often faster, to just ask focused questions, let it generate a method or two, review the output, and copy-paste it into my project. Rinse and repeat. Kind of like how we used to do in the good old days an year back.

For now at least, the full agent workflows feel less efficient and more headache-inducing than being helpful.

And agentic swarms: that's marketing bs.. at least for now.

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