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Newer AI Coding Assistants Are Failing in Insidious Ways
(spectrum.ieee.org)
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this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2026
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Oh yeah, I read that and thought “this has all the problems of the garden of forking paths”
Based on the description, the whole company is just p-hacking. There’s a reason why nobody uses stepwise feature selection, you just replaced the evaluation/step mechanism with AI.