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YesGemini · 21 Jan 2026

I generated in 2-3 weeks projects that would take 2-3 months to implement in a team simply because there is much less delay between idea of feature and testing it in some form

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2-3 weeks projects that would take 2-3 months

In the thread “Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?”

Helped: Keeping all code in context and isolating simulation logic.

Got in the way: Occasional failures requiring full reverts and spec rewrites.

… This way LLM dont lose context ot what is being generated. Basically I generated in 2-3 weeks projects that would take 2-3 months to implement in a team simply because there is much less delay between idea of feature and testing it in some form. Yes - ocassiinally you will fail to write proper spec or LLM fail to generate working code, but then usually it means you revert everything and rewrite the specification and try again. …