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NoCursor · 19 Dec 2024

I'm not fully convinced that the iteration time is any faster, and the codebase is a hot mess

TranquilMarmot on Hacker News

In the thread “GitHub Copilot is now available for free”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Writing long prose prompts and testing AI-generated changes.

… I sip some coffee while it chugs away and spits out some changes, which I then have to go and figure out how to test. I'm not fully convinced that the iteration time is any faster, and the codebase is a hot mess. It also just feels very stifling and frustrating to me to have to write a ton of prose for something when I'm used to being able to write code to do it! …