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YesClaude · 8 Feb 2026

I've had one 18-hour session with it and fixed 3 serious but subtle and difficult to reproduce bugs

pdimitar on Hacker News

fixed 3 serious but subtle and difficult to reproduce bugs

In the thread “I am happier writing code by hand”, replying to this comment

Helped: Carefully defining success criteria and strict testing feedback loops before running.

Got in the way: Missed important things occasionally without strict constraints.

… My colleagues use Claude Opus and it does an okay job but misses important things occasionally. I've had one 18-hour session with it and fixed 3 serious but subtle and difficult to reproduce bugs. And fixed 6-7 flaky tests and our CI has been 100% green ever since. …