But it easily saved me a couple days of wrestling with it myself, as I'm not super strong with C#
mwigdahl on Hacker News
saved me a couple days
In the thread “Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction?”, replying to this comment
Helped: Constrained scope, documentation in context, and running in parallel.
Got in the way: Overspecific tests, incomplete cleanup, and broken business logic paths.
… The final result did exhibit some classic LLM problems -- some of the tests were overspecific, it restructured without always fully cleaning up the existing functions, and it messed up a couple of paths through the business logic that I needed to debug and fix. But it easily saved me a couple days of wrestling with it myself, as I'm not super strong with C#. Our development teams are fully committed, and if I hadn't used CC for this it wouldn't have gotten done at all. …