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MixedJunie · 26 May 2025

It’s not helpful for 90% of my work, but like having a hammer, it’s good to have when you know that you have a nail

harrall on Hacker News

90% of my work

In the thread “Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs?”

Helped: Writing JUnit tests with mocks and fixing broken code.

Got in the way: Not helpful for the majority of daily tasks.

… It writes JUnit tests with mocks, chooses to run them, and fixes the test or sometimes my (actually broken) code. It’s not helpful for 90% of my work, but like having a hammer, it’s good to have when you know that you have a nail.