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YesClaude · 7 Jan 2026

So far, my first test run with Claude + me in the loop produced the same quality in 3 days, my second in 2 days, my third 12 hours

vidarh on Hacker News

fastest turnaround I've achieved before was 21 days... third 12 hours

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Helped: Claude handling heavy lifting, reducing manual turnaround time significantly.

… In this case, it is easily measurable how much time Claude has saved me, because I've done the same thing before, manually, and made money from it, and the fastest turnaround I've achieved before was 21 days. So far, my first test run with Claude + me in the loop produced the same quality in 3 days, my second in 2 days, my third 12 hours, and I think I can drive it down towards 1-2 hours of my time, with me being the blocker to speeding it up beyond that. At 21 days it wasn't really profitable. …