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YesClaude · 8 Nov 2026

I cannot imagine the lack of productivity I would suffer if deprived from an agent

pacoverdi on Hacker News

In the thread “I will not be using LLMs in my coding”

Helped: Handling cleanup and technical debt tasks that lacked time for manual execution.

Got in the way: Harder to grok code and navigate without GPS-like assistance.

… But now, I'm blasting through them with Claude. I cannot imagine the lack of productivity I would suffer if deprived from an agent. That said, I agree with most points the author makes. …