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Engineer Manually Retypes Every Line of LLM-Generated Code to Avoid 'Cognitive Debt' — 112 Points on HN
A August 2 blog post that reached the Hacker News front page on August 3 (112 points, 86 comments) describes configuring a coding assistant to propose edits in chat only, then hand-typing each line into the editor. The author reports roughly 2x productivity rather than the commonly claimed 10x, and argues the tradeoff buys a 'spatial map' of the codebase that makes errors detectable and refactoring possible. The piece cites no studies or metrics — it is one practitioner's discipline, not evidence — but the HN reception indicates the comprehension-versus-throughput tension is now a live disagreement among working engineers.
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