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YesTool not named · 14 Feb 2026

I don't like it, but it's better than not doing it, and sometimes it's better to spend that time on other things

nerdsniper on Hacker News

In the thread “Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986”, replying to this comment

Helped: Speed for documentation that changes quickly.

Got in the way: Quality is lower than hand-written; hard to read.

… I often use LLM's to write documentation at my startup for both my own reference and for my cofounders. I don't like it, but it's better than not doing it, and sometimes it's better to spend that time on other things, especially when the thing I'm documenting is subject to change very shortly. I think the sweet spot, for me, is this: …