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MixedTool not named · 13 Nov 2025

I spend so much time explaining the problem domain to the LLM that its best I just write it all myself instead of cleaning up the piles of code the LLM will spit out

jhancock on Hacker News

In the thread “Software development in the time of strange new angels”

Helped: Front end work and debugging back end code.

Got in the way: Back end generation due to high explanation overhead.

… Back end stuff is where the problem domain sits. I spend so much time explaining the problem domain to the LLM that its best I just write it all myself instead of cleaning up the piles of code the LLM will spit out. So no vibing on the back end...just crack open the AI assistant for debugging. …