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YesChatGPT · 26 Jan 2025

I’ve found it has cut my development time for most features by at least half, even in large codebase

MattGaiser on Hacker News

cut my development time for most features by at least half

In the thread “Ask HN: How to explain to execs why gen AI hasn't 10x'd feature dev”

Helped: Specifying important areas, changes, and desired approach.

Got in the way: Ineffective reasoning in large context over 350 lines.

… To get solid performance out of it, I essentially need to specify the important areas and changes as well as the desired approach. That being said, I’ve found it has cut my development time for most features by at least half, even in large codebase so I would be curious to know how you are approaching it currently.