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YesGPT · 13 Aug 2025

Wanted to refactor a small service, wrote a ~4 sentence goal, it went on and asked for read permissions on the repo, understood the API requirements perfectly, wrote itself a plan, did the refactoring, all the previous tests pass

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Would have taken me maybe 4 hours?

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Helped: Wrote a short goal; model planned and refactored correctly.

… Nothing complicated, but production code. Wanted to refactor a small service, wrote a ~4 sentence goal, it went on and asked for read permissions on the repo, understood the API requirements perfectly, wrote itself a plan, did the refactoring, all the previous tests pass (confirmed manually just to be sure), all good. Would have taken me maybe 4 hours?