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michaelchisariyesterday at 8:08 PM2 repliesview on HN

Debugging, sanity checking, testing, etc. are the best uses of LLMs. Much better than writing code.

Developers should write their own code and use LLMs to design and verify. Better, faster architecture and planning, pre-cleaned PRs and no skill atrophy or loss of understanding on the part of the developer.


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jb1991yesterday at 8:58 PM

Funny, I have the complete opposite impression after using claude code for a while. I would never trust it to design anything. Never again. But it can code pretty well given a very tight and limited scope.

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dyauspitryesterday at 9:46 PM

They’re actually really good at both. Writing code and all the paraphernalia around it.