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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by johnsmith1840 on Sunday January 11, 2026 @05:22PM (#46580978)
The difference is AI tooling lies to you. Day 0 you think it's perfect but the more you use ai tools you realize using them wrong can give you gnarly bugs.

It's intuitive to use but hard to master

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by coffeemug on Sunday January 11, 2026 @09:30PM (#46583224)
It took me a couple of days to find the right level of detail to prompt it. Too high level, and the codebase gets away from me/the tooling goes off the rails. Too low level, and I may as well do it myself. Maybe also learn the sorts of things Claude Code isn't good at yet. But once I got in the groove it was very easy from there. I think the whole process took 2-3 days.
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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by johnsmith1840 on Monday January 12, 2026 @02:11AM (#46585117)
Assuming you used AI before? Then yeah its the same.

If you never AI coded before then get ready for fun!

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