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NoChatGPT, Cline · 24 Oct 2025

the result from LLM was on a final account, 2-3 times longer to get to the acceptable (!) level compared to my own 1 time long top-notch (!) result

valentineshi on Hacker News

2-3 times longer to get to the acceptable level

In the thread “When the VIBEs Start to Fade”

Got in the way: LLM code is slower and lower quality than manual work.

… They deliver <5% of code in a real project and always 100% better to copy/paste from earlier projects than to rely on LLM's probabilistic code let alone rarely accepted code quality. I definitely do not rely on LLM coding me domain things, as whenever I tried, the result from LLM was on a final account, 2-3 times longer to get to the acceptable (!) level compared to my own 1 time long top-notch (!) result. Apart of the quality and the time spent, its "wall of text/code" is annoying and distracting by irrelevant solutions, conclusions, notes etc. …