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YesClaude Code · 4 Feb 2026

I essentially compressed a week’s worth of work into a few hours, and my brain paid the price

jkkramer on Hacker News

compressed a week’s worth of work into a few hours

In the thread “I miss thinking hard”

Helped: Speed on routine work, compressing a week of tasks into hours.

Got in the way: Mental exhaustion from keeping up with subtle mistakes.

… I could have done it myself, but it would have taken MUCH longer. I essentially compressed a week’s worth of work into a few hours, and my brain paid the price. So yeah. …