All 4,839 reports

NoClaude · 5 Nov 2026

Fixing or reviewing all this nonsense, or babysitting the model line by line takes more time than doing the damn thing myself

rich_sasha on Hacker News

In the thread “You'll need nerves of steel to work with AI agents”

Helped: Writing medium-length snippets and scaffolding webpages.

Got in the way: AI agents making random changes and requiring constant babysitting.

… That was enough. Fixing or reviewing all this nonsense, or babysitting the model line by line takes more time than doing the damn thing myself. What makes it worse is the cadence of babysitting an LLM is really awkward. …