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YesTool not named · 11 Sep 2026

The rate at which I'm learning has gone up . I'm becoming a much more proficient software engineer, I'm learning how to operate in new ecosystems, I'm getting better at all sorts of higher level aspects of my work

simonw on Hacker News

In the thread “Feeling Sad about AI”, replying to this comment

Helped: Operating in new ecosystems and higher-level work aspects.

Got in the way: Manual code writing became frustrating, leading to loss of practice.

> Do you feel that you have stopped learning or could not create software now without the tool? The rate at which I'm learning has gone up . I'm becoming a much more proficient software engineer, I'm learning how to operate in new ecosystems, I'm getting better at all sorts of higher level aspects of my work. I am however getting worse at sitting down and crunching out code by hand, mainly because I find it frustrating to work that way now. …