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NoCopilot, Claude · 11 Aug 2025

There was never an instance where it took less time or produced a better solution than just building it myself

TheCleric on Hacker News

In the thread “I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Hallucinated parameters and imports required constant rejection.

… In the end, every tool I tried felt like I was spending a significant amount of time saying “no that won’t work” just to get a piece of code that would build, let alone fit for the task. There was never an instance where it took less time or produced a better solution than just building it myself, with the added bonus that building it myself meant I understood it better. In addition to that I got into this line of work because I like solving problems. …