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YesClaude, Gemini · 24 Aug 2025

But it has speeded up the learning process, no doubt

rakejake on Hacker News

several weeks/months longer

In the thread “Ask HN: What is the biggest problem LLMs solved in your life/work?”

Helped: Handling boilerplate and framework jargon to focus on business logic.

Got in the way: LLMs often make mistakes and are not the ultimate source of truth.

… They don't replace your colleagues in terms of being the ultimate source of truth. But it has speeded up the learning process, no doubt. Also, when writing code I provide the style guide to the LLM as context and have it review the code.