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NoAider, Claude · 13 Jan 2025

I would’ve been better off just reading the docs than trying to use an AI assistant

dartos on Hacker News

In the thread “An "oh fuck" moment in time”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Incorrect understanding of APIs led to days of debugging.

… Again, incorrect understanding (on both our parts) of the underlying API caused a few days of headache. I would’ve been better off just reading the docs than trying to use an AI assistant. Using AI actually frustrated me to the point where it convinced me to suck it up and just read the Specs and sources of the tools I’m using. …