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MixedClaude · 9 Nov 2026

AI hasn’t transformed hard work in quite the same way, but it has given me access to knowledge and information about things and processes that I didn’t have before

_kulang on Hacker News

In the thread “A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code”, replying to this comment

Helped: Access to knowledge and forcing documentation of processes.

Got in the way: Transforming hard work or complex codebase tasks.

… The only things that I do with AI at my job are easy things. AI hasn’t transformed hard work in quite the same way, but it has given me access to knowledge and information about things and processes that I didn’t have before. It also forces me to write things down, which is perhaps a not insignificant amount of the improvement in our business