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bandramitoday at 10:39 AM1 replyview on HN

As an aside, back in the days of Stack Exchange I would always type out manually whatever answer I found to make sure I understood WTF I was adding to the system.


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tdecktoday at 3:23 PM

I did this too. Almost always I'd rename variables, change formatting, add or remove comments, etc..

Unfortunately this feels less easy to do with modern tools. For example, Claude Code expects to edit your actual source files, and the Claude chat is much worse at writing code.

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