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YesTool not named · 13 Oct 2026

AI can write better code than me, faster and cheaper

voakbasda on Hacker News

In the thread “Software engineers don't get to be Luddites about AI”, replying to this comment

Helped: Steering AI to produce right things; managing parallel problems.

… My old job is dead. I have heard it said here, but now I have seen it for myself: AI can write better code than me, faster and cheaper. That said, my value now is steering it to produce the right things. …