Post-Qualification Contribution: Coding a Classical Robot Controller in the Age of Coding Agents, an Honest Assessment (opens in new tab)

Hello everyone! We competed in the AI for Industry Challenge under the team name MacCody and wanted to share our experiences in the Qualification Phase. We unfortunately did not make it in the top 30 but wanted to contribute this piece of knowledge, it may be interesting for Roboticists and people working with LLMs / Coding Agents. Disclaimer: this is not a polished success story, and it is not an anti-agent story either. It is a retrospective about what happened when we used coding agents he...