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NoClaude Code · 3 Jul 2026

The result: almost one workweek, $100+ in tokens, and one thought: did it worth the effort ?

alexsmirnov on Hacker News

one issue per 20 lines of code

In the thread “The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable”, replying to this comment

Helped: Working tests and pre-cooked scripts for running tests and linters.

Got in the way: AI went off rails, ignored best practices, and produced buggy code.

… Mistakes in business logic, failure recovery, authorization. The result: almost one workweek, $100+ in tokens, and one thought: did it worth the effort ? P.S. …