alt Hacker NewsI find the whole idea of AI coding assistants strange.
For me, the writing speed has never been the issue. The issue has been my thinking speed. I do not see how an AI coding assistant helps me think better. Offloading thinking actually makes my thinking process worse and thus slower.
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ej88 • yesterday at 3:46 AM
I primarily find them useful in augmenting my thinking. Grokking new parts of a codebase, discussing tradeoffs back and forth, self-critiques, catching issues with my plan, etc.
> For me, the writing speed has never been the issue. The issue has been my thinking speed. I do not see how an AI coding assistant helps me think better
Similar to moving from individual work to coordinating a large codebase: coding agents, human or otherwise, let you think at a higher abstraction level and tackle larger problems by taking care of the small details.