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YesClaude Code · 15 Mar 2026

I literally just write a little paragraph describing what I want, have it write the code and tests, give it a quick review, and 80% of the time it’s like, great, no notes

wrs on Hacker News

80% of the time it’s like, great, no notes

In the thread “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?”

Helped: Writing clear paragraphs and insisting on test coverage.

Got in the way: UI component signalling became spaghettilike.

… One of these is sort of a weird IDE, and Opus even does OK with obscureish things like CodeMirror grammars. I literally just write a little paragraph describing what I want, have it write the code and tests, give it a quick review, and 80% of the time it’s like, great, no notes. To be clear, this is not vibecoding. …