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YesClaude Code · 21 Jan 2026

The turnaround for each deliverable is ~2 days with Claude and the fastest I've ever done it manually was 21 days

vidarh on Hacker News

The turnaround for each deliverable is ~2 days with Claude and the fastest I've ever done it manually was 21 days.

In the thread “Vibecoding #2”, replying to this comment

Helped: Loosening reins, reviewing finished output, and building agent loops with tests.

Got in the way: Babysitting every step or expecting tools to work without review and revision.

I'm currently testing Claude Code for a project where it isn't coding. But the workflows built with it are now making me money after ~2 weeks, and I've previously done the same work manually, so I know the turnaround time: The turnaround for each deliverable is ~2 days with Claude and the fastest I've ever done it manually was 21 days. (Yes, I'm being intentionally vague - there isn't much of a moat for that project given how close Claude gets with very little prompting) …