All 4,799 reports

MixedClaude · 2 Nov 2026

over time they code reduces to more that of a junior self-taught engineer who has no concept of software engineering

__abc on Hacker News

In the thread “I Read the Clankers' Code”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Code quality reduced to junior level lacking software engineering concepts.

Over 12-18 months of moving my teams to LLM as the IDE I've observed they DO NOT equal a mid-level engineer on their own. More importantly, over time they code reduces to more that of a junior self-taught engineer who has no concept of software engineering (delivery as a team vs. raw academic). …