But it has legitimately allowed me to build 10x faster than I probably could on my own
fourthrigbt on Hacker News
10x faster
In the thread “Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?”
Helped: One-shotting major changes across many files and hundreds of lines.
Got in the way: Making strange choices requiring real-time correction and redirection.
… And it will make strange choices that I need to correct on the back end sometimes. But it has legitimately allowed me to build 10x faster than I probably could on my own. Maybe the most important thing about it is what it enables you to build that would have been not worth the trouble before, Stuff like wrapping tools in really nice flexible TUIs, creating visualizations/dashboards/benchmark, slightly altering how an application works to cover a use case you hadn’t thought of before, wrapping an interface so it’s easy to …