Avdi Grimm • 5/9/2025

Agents Aren’t Juniors, They Are Amnesiac Spies

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The article compares AI coding assistants to 'amnesiac spies,' highlighting their ability to instantly understand complex technical instructions due to vast training data, but their inability to learn from experience, develop taste, or improve over time, unlike human junior developers.

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