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YesClaude, Cursor · 20 Jan 2026

I write less code by hand now that it's producing something acceptable

DustinBrett on Hacker News

90% of the way it gets me is pretty close to what I wanted

In the thread “Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?”

Helped: Using it for sysops tasks with MCP connections to relevant services.

Got in the way: It still isn't one-shotting the entire task.

… I feel more confident in telling it to change things without it making it worse. I only use it at work so I can't share anything, but I can say I write less code by hand now that it's producing something acceptable. For sysops stuff I have found it extremely useful, once it has MCP's into all relevant services, I use it as the first place I go to ask what is happening with something specific on the backend.