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MixedClaude, ChatGPT · 28 Dec 2025

Writing a feature or fixing a bug in that soup, I have found, is something that the best AIs will slow you down with as often as they speed you up

marstall on Hacker News

In the thread “Travel agents took 10 years to collapse. Developers are 3 years in”

Helped: Scaffolding CRUD, writing tests, and explaining code parts.

Got in the way: Writing features or fixing bugs in complex, hacky legacy systems.

… And my work is smack dab inth middle of that. Writing a feature or fixing a bug in that soup, I have found, is something that the best AIs will slow you down with as often as they speed you up. And that doesn't even take into consideration that a very large part of my job is just defining what the bug or feature is , before I can even begin to code. …