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YesClaude Code, Cursor · 16 Mar 2026

I feel that I’m producing more and better code even with unfamiliar and tangled codebases

fizzyfizz on Hacker News

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

Helped: Producing better code in unfamiliar codebases and catching UX bugs via simulation.

Got in the way: Colleagues committing code they don't understand, leading to bad PRs.

… GOOD: I feel that I’m producing more and better code even with unfamiliar and tangled codebases. For my own side projects, it’s brought them from vague ideas to shipped. …