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YesClaude Code · 8 Feb 2026

It feels like a good balance, to me

queenkjuul on Hacker News

In the thread “I am happier writing code by hand”

Helped: Boring tasks like mocks and YAML; learning how to do things.

Got in the way: Bad naming, excessive comments, subtle bugs in direct output.

… I almost never agree with the names Claude chooses, i despise the comments it adds every other line despite me telling it over and over and over not to, oftentimes i catch the silly bugs that look fine at first glance when you just let Claude write its output direct to the file. It feels like a good balance, to me. Nobody on my team is working drastically faster than me, with or without AI. …