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More than a few times I've spent a tedious hour navigating 4o's or Claude's hallucinated confident failures, instead of a pleasant and productive 45 minutes writing the code myself
tinthedev on Hacker News
spent a tedious hour... instead of... 45 minutes
In the thread “Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?”
Helped: Teaching juniors to prompt better and use LLMs for learning.
Got in the way: Navigating hallucinated confident failures from 4o or Claude.
… Often the juice won't be worth the squeeze. More than a few times I've spent a tedious hour navigating 4o's or Claude's hallucinated confident failures, instead of a pleasant and productive 45 minutes writing the code myself... and from peer discussions, I'm not alone.