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There's no point at which turning your brain off will work

204 points · 156 comments · robin_reala

  1. shadowgovt · · focus · HN ↗
    It's an interesting idea. I'm not sure I agree.

    Here's the thing I'm finding - LLMs allow me to do more coding when my brain isn't firing on all six cylinders. It means I get more code written because I don't have to be "in the zone" to exhaustively hunt down every piece of API and dependency and have my flow continuously broken up by missing information. The code written in that state is lower quality, but I can patch up five-cylinder-brain code faster than I can synthesize code from a blank page outside of my flow state.

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