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ChrisMarshallNYyesterday at 9:06 AM1 replyview on HN

> The only way I can maintain my pace of branched trial-and-error is by using claude.ai/chat and manually extricating code fragments to and from my codebase. The human is still the best harness for production-level code.

That’s been the way I do it.

I suppose that it will be considered “quaint,” soon enough, but I have found it to be effective.


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roncesvallesyesterday at 10:15 AM

And the best part is, I don't spend more than $20 a month on LLMs. Going manual and constantly branching keeps the contexts super lean.

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