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NoClaude Code · 26 Feb 2026

This was agony to me, because I could see it making mistakes that I could fix in seconds

sgarland on Hacker News

In the thread “Technical Excellence Is Not Enough”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Watching AI make fixable mistakes and lack of personal joy.

… As an example, recently at my job we had a forced AI-Only week, where everyone had to use Claude Code, zero manual coding. This was agony to me, because I could see it making mistakes that I could fix in seconds, but instead I had to try to patiently explain what I needed to be done, and then twiddle my thumbs while cheerful nonsense words danced around the screen. One of the things I produced from that was a series of linters to catch sub-optimal schema decisions in PRs. …