Ask HN: What about the "annoyance cost" of using LLMs for coding?

1 arduinomancer 1 9/5/2025, 1:59:02 AM
Does anyone else find that LLM code generators improve your overall productivity marginally but you prefer not to use them due to what I call the “annoyance cost”

Basically the extra cognitive annoyance you have to experience every time it generates the wrong thing

It’s like you can achieve the end result faster but it’s more mentally draining and annoying to keep tweaking the LLM than to just write it yourself

Comments (1)

JojoFatsani · 43m ago
Being very very clear and detailed with your prompt/instructions is key to providing good output in my experience.