What Jamie Brandon thinks about coding agents

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Programmer based in Vancouver who writes at scattered-thoughts.net about databases, programming language design and developer tools; author of the Imp, Dida and Zest language experiments.

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1 Jul 2026

Our readingCurrent AI coding models make poor decisions despite strong mechanical execution

Their wordsBut they are terrible at making decisions. They have the worst judgement.

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