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MixedCopilot · 15 Apr 2025

Coding assistants are really helpful for validating output, I've had much more mixed results trying to use it to generate novel outputs

helle253 on Hacker News

In the thread “The Post-Developer Era”, replying to this comment

Helped: Validating output and catching obvious issues.

Got in the way: Generating novel outputs.

… This workflow has helped me catch quite a few gotchas I would have otherwise missed. Coding assistants are really helpful for validating output, I've had much more mixed results trying to use it to generate novel outputs.