Yes
With a semi-decent agent I can build what took me a week or two in hours just because it can iterate the solution faster than any human can type
theshrike79 on Hacker News
what took me a week or two in hours
In the thread “Software factories and the agentic moment”, replying to this comment
Helped: Agent iterates faster than human typing; handles multi-layer updates.
… Stuff comes in from an API goes out to a different API. With a semi-decent agent I can build what took me a week or two in hours just because it can iterate the solution faster than any human can type. A new field in the API could’ve been a two day ordeal of patching it through umpteen layers of enterprise frameworks. …