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MixedClaude · 11 May 2026

I now always map out how I would do something before asking ai to approach it

czhu12 on Hacker News

In the thread “I'm going back to writing code by hand”

Helped: Mapping out approach before asking AI to implement.

Got in the way: AI optimized for appearance over correct cluster-native logic.

… Implementations like that scare me — if I accidentally missed it and merged it — since there are real people who rely on canine. I wouldn’t go as far as to say I’m writing everything by hand, but I now always map out how I would do something before asking ai to approach it