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YesClaude Code · 8 Aug 2025

Claude Code has turned quarter long initiatives into a few afternoons of prompting for me

ramesh31 on Hacker News

quarter long initiatives into a few afternoons

In the thread “Programming with AI: You're Probably Doing It Wrong”, replying to this comment

Helped: Reaching high trust level and accepting occasional wasted token costs.

Got in the way: Occasionally generates nonsense output requiring token waste.

… Yes. Claude Code has turned quarter long initiatives into a few afternoons of prompting for me, in the context of multiple different massive legacy enterprise codebases. It all comes down to just reaching that "jesus take the wheel" level of trust in it. …