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NoCursor, Windsurf · 16 May 2025

I found that LLM generated code was not hitting the necessary bars for me in these areas (agent or code autocompletion) and so I have stepped back from them

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In the thread “After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain”

Helped: Stepping back from autocomplete and agentic flows for professional code.

Got in the way: LLM generated code did not meet bars for readability and maintainability.

… There are mentoring, refactoring, code readability/mantainability, and quality that are important to my job. I found that LLM generated code was not hitting the necessary bars for me in these areas (agent or code autocompletion) and so I have stepped back from them. The readability point is extra important to me. …