Mixed
Yet, the result was slop full of defects, and one that I did not understand well at that
devld on Hacker News
In the thread “2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026”
Helped: Writing important parts manually and using AI for small fixes and tests.
Got in the way: Feeding a prepared spec to Claude Opus for full implementation.
… I took effort to understand and prepare the spec before feeding it to Claude Opus. Yet, the result was slop full of defects, and one that I did not understand well at that. I just did not have a mental model of it. …