Why Software Automation Is Hard — LessWrong

kept by eddie jun 08

Coding agents have become more capable but face fundamental bottlenecks like limited context, assumption-making, technical debt accumulation, and coordination overhead that prevent them from scaling productivity gains proportionally in larger organizations.

Ask HN: What's it like working in big tech recently with all the AI tools?
Big tech engineers report AI tools increase PR volume and development speed but also introduce more bugs, reduce code review quality, and shift culture toward quantity over quality.
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Claude Code is coming to Slack, and that's a bigger deal than it sounds
Anthropic launches Claude Code in Slack, letting developers delegate coding tasks from chat threads, signaling a shift toward AI-embedded collaboration.
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