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YesChatGPT · 28 Jan 2026

Thanks to the models post gpt4.5 most requirements are solvable in 15 minutes when they could have taken multiple workdays to write and check by hand

originalvichy on Hacker News

50-500 line scripts

In the thread “A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks”, replying to this comment

Helped: Writing helper scripts for APIs and tools known well.

Got in the way: Lack of safe ad-hoc environments to run scripts in.

… Many software providers expose great apis, but expert use cases require data output/input that relies on 50-500 line scripts. Thanks to the models post gpt4.5 most requirements are solvable in 15 minutes when they could have taken multiple workdays to write and check by hand. The only major gap is safe ad-hoc environments to run these in. …