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YesCodex · 21 Jan 2026

That would've been a full day's work from me, maybe a bit more, that was now compressed to 5 minutes of active work

theshrike79 on Hacker News

compressed to 5 minutes of active work

In the thread “Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?”, replying to this comment

Helped: Delegating benchmarking and library replacement tasks to the agent.

… Then I closed the browser tab and came back later, next day I think, and checked out the results. That would've been a full day's work from me, maybe a bit more, that was now compressed to 5 minutes of active work.