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YesClaude · 19 Feb 2026

Claude and I wrote 8500 lines of code in a day

josephg on Hacker News

8500 lines of code in a day

In the thread “AI makes you boring”, replying to this comment

Helped: Generating a full test suite and runner for spec compliance.

Got in the way: Three tests failed due to Claude misunderstanding the RFC.

… And an html frontend to view the test results in a big table. Claude and I wrote 8500 lines of code in a day. I don’t care how the test runner works, so long as it works. …