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NoClaude · 6 Feb 2026

I spend more time on cleanup compared to if I just write code myself

wasmainiac on Hacker News

In the thread “How to effectively write quality code with AI”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: AI rewrote valid math and ignored instructions for unrelated tasks.

… I find that I write better by hand, although I work on niche applications it’s not really standard crud or react apps. I use LLMs in the same way i used to used stack overflow, if I go much farther to automate my work than that I spend more time on cleanup compared to if I just write code myself. Sometimes the AI does weird stuff too. …