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MixedClaude · 16 Mar 2026

This approach works only if you make small changes

mdavid626 on Hacker News

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

Helped: Small commits, testing, and maintaining a manual mental model.

Got in the way: Teammates coding without reading code resulted in lower quality.

… I don’t use plan mode, just let the agent code - code review is faster than reading plan. This approach works only if you make small changes. I create mental model of the code same way, as when writing it manually. …