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YesClaude Code · 28 Oct 2025

Applying that new design and updating the hundred of related tests would have taken me weeks. I got it done in two days

simonw on Hacker News

two days

In the thread “AI can code, but it can't build software”, replying to this comment

Helped: Rewriting permissions engine to use SQL queries.

… The new design gets to generate a very complex by thoroughly tested SQL query instead. Applying that new design and updating the hundred of related tests would have taken me weeks. I got it done in two days. Here's a diff that captures most of the work: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/compare/e951f7e81f038e43...