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MixedTool not named · 28 Sep 2026

Where I've found ai extremely helpful though is asking questions about our codebase, or asking it to build me a function that takes in a, b, c arguments and spits out x, y, z

topherPedersen on Hacker News

In the thread “Coding is not solved”, replying to this comment

Helped: Asking questions about the codebase and building specific small functions.

Got in the way: One-shot attempts often take lazy shortcuts or fail to follow instructions.

… A lot of times it just doesn't do what you ask it to do. Where I've found ai extremely helpful though is asking questions about our codebase, or asking it to build me a function that takes in a, b, c arguments and spits out x, y, z. AI really is one of the greatest things mankind has ever produced, but I don't think it's so good yet that it can replace humans completely. …