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Now I describe what I need and get idiomatic code in whichever language I'm in
stainlu on Hacker News
saves me 30-40 minutes on a typical day
In the thread “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?”
Helped: Generating idiomatic code across multiple languages to reduce context switching costs.
Got in the way: Debugging bugs spanning multiple systems where the model ignores other layers.
… I maintain services in TypeScript, Python, and some Go, and the cost of switching between them used to be brutal - remembering idioms, library APIs, error handling patterns. Now I describe what I need and get idiomatic code in whichever language I'm in. That alone probably saves me 30-40 minutes on a typical day. …