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Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me

People keep asking me If I use Generative AI tools for coding and what I think of them, so this is my effort to put my thoughts in writing, so that I can send people here instead of having to repeat…

But I enjoy working with users who have an interest in my projects and take time to report bugs, request new features or submit code changes. I have received some of these, and it's interesting that there is a sort of uncanny valley effect that triggers in me when I start reading AI generated code that hasn't been edited and refined by a real person. When I come across pull requests of this type I start asking questions to the submitters about the weird parts of their submissions, because I consider them responsible for the code they want me to merge.

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