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Ask HN: My coworker's AI responses are driving me insane
there's a user-facing worker on my team who regularly responds to users with AI slop. they don't even bother to remove the emdashes or adjust the pandering tone. it's absolutely nails on a chalkboard for me. I'm not their manager so I hesitate to intervene at all, but it makes me...
Ask HN: Last time you wrote code?
do you keep up with writing syntax? do you do it as a hobby or try to weave it into work? do you do it from scratch or only when it's easier than prompting?
Ask HN: Preferred Next.js Alternatives?
detailed reasoning welcome!<p>trying to decide between React Router 7 (Remix), TanStack Router, Next.js, or something else.
Ask HN: VSCode AI Autocomplete Woes
hi, tab used to work mostly fine in vscode, but with the integration of copilot, AI has co-opted many situations where I simply want to indent or otherwise press tab without autocompleting via AI. I am looking for a way to restore this previous behavior and shift specifically AI autocomplete&#x2F;su...
Ask HN: LLMs and Code Style Compliance
how good are LLMs at maintaining a consistent code style or &quot;voice&quot;? things like context-dependent stylistic decisions that you want to enforce, in addition to general rules that should be easier to lint.<p>I ask because after iterating with AI for sometime, the code starts to feel like un...