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NoClaude Code, Windsurf · 6 Mar 2026

I ended up wasting more time arguing with it than if I had just done the menial task of filling out the tests myself

sensanaty on Hacker News

In the thread “Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Generated useless hardcoded tests and required more manual review than doing it manually.

… This is about the bare minimum where I would expect these things to do good work, a simple take comment -> spit out the `assert()` block. I ended up wasting more time arguing with it than if I had just done the menial task of filling out the tests myself. It sure did generate a shit ton of code though, and ran in an impressive looking loop for 5-10 minutes! …