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NoClaude Code · 18 Jul 2025

the time required to correct and check the output isn't a saving

kimixa on Hacker News

In the thread “My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures”, replying to this comment

Helped: Autocompletion and template-like refactoring on non-templated code.

Got in the way: Repeating mistakes after context loss; wrong search/summary output.

… Most larger than context windows even before you look at things like API documentation. Even as a "search and summarizer" tool I've found it completely wrong in enough cases to be functionally worthless as the time required to correct and check the output isn't a saving. But they can be handy for "autocompletion+" - like "here's a similar existing block of code, now do the same but with (changes)". …