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LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them

#0178: Why LLM-Powered Programming is More Mech Suit Than Artificial Human How LLM-powered programming tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replace them Tags: braingasm, llm, programming, ai, claude, code, mech-suit, 2025 Photo by Screen Rant [ED: There’s a lot of talk of replacing human programmers. Sure, some will go, but not all.

Last month, I used Claude Code to build two apps: an MVP for a non-trivial backend agent processing platform and the early workings of a reasonably complex frontend for a B2C SaaS product. The sunk cost fallacy hits programmers hard—we hate discarding code we’ve invested in, fearing we might break something important or never get back to a working state. Rather than just sit there and watch it generate code, I had to pay very close attention to spot anti-patterns or worse emerging that would either stop working soon after it was written, or lie dormant and bite later on.

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