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ubertacotoday at 3:10 AM2 repliesview on HN

You let them write code that runs in prod, which is the same thing with extra steps.

Unless you review that code carefully, and then we're back to the point about it not saving you any cognitive overhead.


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lukantoday at 8:47 AM

Of course it saves me overhead by not having to read all the necessary docs etc myself and just check the resulting code and not having to type all myself.

enraged_cameltoday at 11:18 AM

>> You let them write code that runs in prod, which is the same thing with extra steps.

The “with extra steps” is doing a lot of work in that sentence.