No
the amount that I understood the code I was producing versus how much I was writing was not worth it
mavilia on Hacker News
20% faster
In the thread “Ask HN: With all the AI hype, how are software engineers feeling?”
Helped: Boilerplate writing and AI tab features.
Got in the way: Garbage output and loss of deep code understanding.
… Things change fast and the tech got way better as I moved from CoPilot to Cursor to finally Claude Code. But at the end of the day the amount that I understood the code I was producing versus how much I was writing was not worth it. People talk a lot about "what you merge to production is still your code" and I agree with that. …