I probably spend more time just reprompting then I would just writing things by hand
throwatdem12311 on Hacker News
In the thread “Ghostty is leaving GitHub”
Got in the way: Reprompting takes longer than manual coding; generated code is low quality and insecure.
… a tool”, but it’s impossible for me to divorce the realities of the terrible harm these generative AI tools are doing to the world and it’s immensely selfish to be like “well it generates slop code for me good enough so I don’t care about all the other bad stuff”. So I just suffer in silence at work because I’m forced to use AI to generate code even though I probably spend more time just reprompting then I would just writing things by hand. The worst thing is needing to babysit third world contractors they gave a Claude subscription to - the worst slop I have ever seen. …