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NoCursor · 16 Jun 2025

This happened to me enough that I wound up entirely turning off these suggestions. It was ruining my ability to achieve any kind of flow

bluefirebrand on Hacker News

In the thread “'It is a better programmer than me': The reality of being laid off due to AI”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Suggestions were often wrong enough to reject, disrupting mental flow and forcing idea reconstruction.

… But this also shoves the idea I had in my head right out of my brain and now I'm in a worse position, having to reconstruct the idea I already had This happened to me enough that I wound up entirely turning off these suggestions. It was ruining my ability to achieve any kind of flow > Because of this I mainly use these tools for one-off, POC, or just screwing around. …