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I find I spend much more time designing and testing my software and development time is almost entirely prompting and reviewing AI changes
greenpizza13 on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?”
Helped: Spending more time on design, architecture, and testing.
Got in the way: Coding skills atrophying, creating dependency on expensive tools.
… We have cursor with essentially unlimited Opus 4.6 and it’s fundamentally changed my workflow as a senior engineer. I find I spend much more time designing and testing my software and development time is almost entirely prompting and reviewing AI changes. I’m afraid my coding skills are atrophying, in fact I know the are, but I’m not sure if the coding was the part of my job I truly enjoyed. …