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NoCopilot · 11 Jan 2026

When I end up using it, I think it slows me down, and I don’t end up using any of its code at the end of the day

al_borland on Hacker News

In the thread “Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?”

Helped: Writing small regex patterns.

Got in the way: General code generation and overall workflow speed.

… I can’t relate to any of the hype. When I end up using it, I think it slows me down, and I don’t end up using any of its code at the end of the day. I’ll occasionally have it write a little regex for me, which it does a decent job with, that’s its main use.