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MixedClaude · 30 Jan 2026

It was terrible for the code, but helpful as a glorified doc search

Wojtkie on Hacker News

In the thread “How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills”

Helped: Pointing to correct documentation for learning implementations.

Got in the way: Hallucinated methods and incorrect code generation.

… I found it most useful for quickly pointing me to the right documentation, where I'd learn the right implementation and then use it. It was terrible for the code, but helpful as a glorified doc search.