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While coding agents benefit from the objective feedback of compilers and linters, commenters warn that open-ended tasks often produce "truthy" hallucinations that are dangerously difficult to detect at a glance. This reasoning deficit leads to significant logic errors—ranging from nonsensical SQL tests to inaccurate medical reports—that still require specialized human expertise to catch, challenging the idea that AI can fully replace specialized roles. Furthermore, there is a pervasive concern that as AI is used to "speed up" work, the necessary human verification will become increasingly cursory or "half-assed" due to mounting productivity pressures. Ultimately, the utility of these agents hinges on whether they are treated as fallible interns requiring constant tutoring or as authoritative tools, with the latter risking a "clanker incompetence" that undermines professional standards.