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YesClaude · 15 Mar 2026

I've shipped full features and bug fixes without touching an IDE for anything significant

theshrike79 on Hacker News

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

Helped: Shipped full features and bug fixes without using an IDE.

Got in the way: Minor issues like docstrings and test naming required prompt fixes.

I've shipped full features and bug fixes without touching an IDE for anything significant. When I need to type stuff myself it's mostly just minor flavour changes like Claude adding docstrings in a silly way or naming test functions the wrong way - stuff that I fixed in the prompt for the next time. …