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YesClaude Code · 12 Jan 2026

What was a revelation for me personally was taking 1-2mo early in claude code's release was to go full cold turkey on manual coding

lmeyerov on Hacker News

In the thread “Don't fall into the anti-AI hype”, replying to this comment

Helped: Going full cold turkey on manual coding to force habit change.

… I wouldn't say team 1 is better than team 2 in general: these are tools, and different people have different engineering skill and ai coding skill, including different amounts of time doing both. What was a revelation for me personally was taking 1-2mo early in claude code's release was to go full cold turkey on manual coding, similar to getting immersed in a foreign language. That forced eliminating a lot of bad habits wrt effective ai coding both personally and in state of our repo tooling. …