# An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail | Max Woolf's Blog

<https://minimaxir.com/2026/02/ai-agent-coding/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Honest long-read from a data scientist skeptic who slowly warmed to AI agent coding — nuanced take on when agents genuinely help vs. pure hype. Worth reading if you're evaluating AI coding tools seriously at SPS.\n\nPull quote: "Agents are unpredictable, expensive, and the hype around it was wildly disproportionate given the results I had seen in personal usage."

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