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MixedClaude Code · 15 Mar 2026

I get the sense that the often claimed "10x more productive" is not actually that, and we are creating a whole flood of problems and technical debt that we won't be able to prompt ourselves out of

jellyfishbeaver on Hacker News

60% of my company's AI usage is probably useless

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

Helped: Iterating on personal projects and automating tedious grunt work.

Got in the way: Churning out code and documents that generate no real value.

… Lots of churning out code and documents that generate no real value or are never used a second time. I get the sense that the often claimed "10x more productive" is not actually that, and we are creating a whole flood of problems and technical debt that we won't be able to prompt ourselves out of. The benefit I have mostly seen myself so far is freeing up time and automating tedious tasks and grunt work.