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YesClaude · 13 Jul 2026

I use AI to write code (in "manually accept edits" mode, and I am picky about every single diff) and the results are really good

jrockway on Hacker News

In the thread “AI is a bad tool”

Helped: Refining designs, finding codepaths, writing code, plumbing config.

Got in the way: Editing Go templates that generate YAML is miserable.

… I use AI for "where are all the codepaths where we return an HTTP 499 error". I use AI to write code (in "manually accept edits" mode, and I am picky about every single diff) and the results are really good. Most of the time, exactly what I typed in. …