I will not be using LLMs in my coding
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I will not be using LLMs in my coding was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 8, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 2 checks on 1 different day. Its best position was #19 of 30, reached on Nov 8, 13:39 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 8, 13:39 UTC.
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I was a competitive programmer, coded non-stop in many languages for 15+ years. I haven't touched a line of code in over 6 months, didn't even look at it, but the work I do is faster and higher quality than ever. Not sure how I feel about it
> Entrepreneur at heart The post sounds more like a programmer at heart, and that's totally fine. To me, being an entrepreneur is more about building products, solving problems, and creating business value. LLMs help to deliver bug fixes, new features, and entirely new products faster.
I’m not disagreeing with the author, but if you look at his dealbreakers: most of them will be resolved over time (quality, maintainability, environmental impact & even politics), they are not so much against LLMs as they are against the current versions of them. The only arguments against AI itself are about…
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Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 8, 13:39 UTC, after 1 day of trending.
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It was first seen on Nov 8, 2026 and has been on the list on 1 day (2 checks) since.
59 points and 66 comments; submitted by Risse on Nov 8, 2026.