Ask HN: How do you offload all coding to AI?

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Hey all, hope everyone is well!

I’ve seen a lot of comments and posts where people have stated they ‘literally’ never write a line of code anymore and was curious as to what people mean when they state this.

I say this as a daily user of Claude code with a max plan, so I’m not bashing LLMs or people who use them. I just find it quite hard to understand how it can be productive to offload _all_ coding, especially on brownfield projects.

My reason for saying this is that I often have to debug and triage issues. Often my triage and diagnosis leads me to a point where I can see that the issue is a simple fix with a couple lines of code.

Of course, Claude could fix the issue but the time taken to prompt, wait for it to spit out a plan, evaluate said plan, wait for it to finish implementing said plan, and then evaluate the work would be considerably longer than just making the change quickly and making a PR myself.

Obviously is also possible to just offload the triage and diagnosis to Claude as well but I personally find it unproductive as it essentially ends up with a higher chance of the LLM going rogue and changing unrelated areas of the codebase.

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