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How I use LLMs to help me write code

simonw.substack.com · 11 March 2025 · 26 min read

A post on simonw.substack.com, published 11 March 2025, is cited by 2 distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 11 October 2026).

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Figures for this page
First cited	17 Jul 2025
Latest citation	17 Dec 2025
Words blogs link it with	2
External links	73
Length	5,853

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recommends this approach1 blog
regular user of ai coding tools1 blog

Cited by 2 blogs in 2 posts

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blog.fnil.net1 post

My AI Coding Experience: Three Principles

linked as “recommends this approach”

Read at blog.fnil.net

17 Dec 2025

LeadDev1 post

AI doesn’t make devs as productive as they think, study finds

linked as “regular user of AI coding tools”

Read at leaddev.com

17 Jul 2025

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