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One approach cut the time down by 50%, I rewrote it with better code and it's saved about $6,000/month for my company
SatvikBeri on Hacker News
One approach cut the time down by 50%
In the thread “Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?”
Helped: Prototyping tedious performance ideas and investigating infrastructure issues.
Got in the way: Initial code quality was bad, requiring manual rewriting.
… It made prototypes that had bad code quality but tested the core ideas. One approach cut the time down by 50%, I rewrote it with better code and it's saved about $6,000/month for my company. * My wife and I had a really complicated spreadsheet for tracking how much we owed our babysitter – it was just complex enough to not really fit into a spreadsheet easily. …