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Ankur Sethi
Personal blog · ankursethi.com/blog · on HN as GeneralMaximusprogrammingai
Ankur Sethi's personal blog at ankursethi.com covers programming and ai. Since 2025, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on preventing cognitive debt when using an LLM to write. It proposes writing code by hand with the LLM assisting in planning, and one commenter says the approach has helped.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal website of Ankur Sethi, writer and independent frontend engineer living in Bangalore, India.
Most-linked posts?
- Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-08-02
- Pushing the smallest possible change to production2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-17
- Your analytics are lying to you2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-23
- PKM apps need to get better at resurfacing information2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-05
What Hacker News says?
You could try this [0] I’ve started doing this and it’s helped a lot. 1. I understand fully the code and everything it does 2. You can pick up on mistakes super early and it can adjust the plan is it goes. 3. Faster than writing it by hand but slower than letting the LLM do it. [0] https://ankursethi.com/blog/prevent-cognitive-debt-by-manual...
Comment linking /blog/prevent-cognitive-debt-by-manually-retyping-llm-generated-code/
on “Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)”Submitted Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration as a story · 845 points
HN discussionLocation: Bangalore, India (UTC+5:30) Remote: preferred Willing to relocate: no Technologies: web platform (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), the React ecosystem, TypeScript, Tailwind, Astro. Good enough at UI/UX design to be dangerous. Résumé/CV: https://ankursethi.com/work/ Email: contact@ankursethi.com I'm an independent consultant and frontend engineer helping startups (and a few large organizations) bring new products to…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)”Submitted The tools I love are made by awful people as a story · 83 points
HN discussionLocation: Bangalore, India (UTC+5:30) Remote: preferred Willing to relocate: no Technologies: web platform (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), React, TypeScript, Tailwind, some Next.js Résumé/CV: https://archive.ankursethi.com/work/ Email: contact@ankursethi.com I'm an independent consultant and frontend engineer helping startups (and a few large organizations) bring new products to market since 2012. I can help you with: - Bu…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)”Submitted Nobody clicks share buttons as a story · 76 points
HN discussionLocation: Bangalore, India (UTC+5:30) Remote: preferred Willing to relocate: no Technologies: web platform (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), React, TypeScript, Tailwind, some Next.js Résumé/CV: https://archive.ankursethi.com/work/ Email: contact@ankursethi.com I've been helping startups (and a few large organizations) bring new products to market since 2012. I can help you with: - Building the first MVP of your product to pu…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)”Submitted PKM apps need to get better at resurfacing information as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I use my computer and phone while minimizing distractions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nobody clicks your share buttons as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I built a programming language using Claude Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pushing the smallest possible change to production as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pushing the smallest possible change to production as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social media is a threat to my psychological sovereignty as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your analytics are lying to you as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Analytics Are Lying to You as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I used a local LLM to analyze my journal entries as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using LLMs for Web Search as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted PKM apps need to get better at resurfacing information as a story · 1 points
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