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rfoo04/24/20251 replyview on HN

What if I prefer to have a clone of me doing my coding, and then I throw my clone under the bus and start to (angrily) hyperfocus explore and change every piece to be beautiful? Does this mean I love coding or I hate coding?

It's definitely a personality thing, but that's so much more productive for me, than convincing myself to do all the work from scratch after I had a design.

I guess this means I hate coding, and I only love the dopamine from designing and polishing my work instead of making things work. I'm not sure though, this feels like the opposite of hate coding.


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ang_cire04/24/2025

If you create a sufficiently absurd hypothetical, anything is possible.

Or are you calling an LLM a "clone" of you? In that case, it's more, "if you create a flawed enough starting premise, anything is possible".

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