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NoGPT, Cursor · 3 Sep 2026

The work grew in complexity beyond my ability to understand what's happening and recover

dingdong2026 on Hacker News

In the thread “GPT-6 Astra”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Models increased complexity beyond user's ability to understand or recover.

… As the models struggled to find a solution that would actually work, they dug themselves deeper into a hole. The work grew in complexity beyond my ability to understand what's happening and recover. At some point, when I felt like throwing the keyboard out the window, I just gave up. …