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YesCopilot, Claude Code · 23 Sep 2025

The main benefit of AI assisted coding for me personally seems to be smoothing over those paper cuts

faxmeyourcode on Hacker News

In the thread “Getting AI to work in complex codebases”

Helped: Reviewing AI plans and editing them directly in context.

… The death by a million paper cuts is real in a large codebase with the interplay and idiosyncrasies of multiple repos, teams, personalities, etc. The main benefit of AI assisted coding for me personally seems to be smoothing over those paper cuts. I derive pleasure from building things that work. …