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NoClaude Code · 7 Jun 2026

I'm not sure it saved me any time, and it was very un-fun

jrockway on Hacker News

In the thread “LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do”, replying to this comment

Helped: Generating YAML files and small code chunks.

Got in the way: Generating specifications and design docs for implementation.

… I did a project where I carefully paired with Claude Code on producing a specification that another model would actually implement. I'm not sure it saved me any time, and it was very un-fun. (I kind of blame Opus 4.7 xhigh for this. …