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NoTool not named · 26 Feb 2026

Using LLMs is like putting additional friction in between my brain and my hands

hansmayer on Hacker News

In the thread “Writing code is cheap now”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Babysitting, mental fatigue, and friction between brain and hands.

… At the end of the day, for complex projects its actually faster if I shortcircuit my thinking machine to my code-writing executors and skip the natural language bollocks altogether (save for the original spec). Using LLMs is like putting additional friction in between my brain and my hands.