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Introducing more colors (or effects) without a way to abstract over them will cause a lot of issues. It is already painful to work with async, one have to either accept a lot of code duplication or to perform some obscure black magic with the macro system.
Also, the language is already inelegant with each monad having its own syntactic sugar (result, option and async).
But there are serious limits. [Your coding agent] will lie to you, they don't really understand things, and they often generate bad code.
As for lies and bad code, it didn't appear with AI. Humans lied and produced bad code before AI.
How does the author empirically know AI does not understand? And if it does not understand right now, is a machine fundamentally unable to understand? Is understanding an exclusive human ability? Is it because machines lack a soul? It sounds quite dualistic (Descartes'view that mind and body and fundamentally different).
Don't get me know, I think right now, AI is less a good at understanding humans than other humans (or even dogs) in many contexts because it has no access to non verbal signals. But in the context of building software, it is good enough and I don't see why a machine should not be able to understand humans.