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MixedClaude · 24 Feb 2026

What would usually take me a week took an afternoon to generate

abahgat on Hacker News

What would usually take me a week took an afternoon to generate

In the thread “The Velocity Paradox: Why 100x faster code doesn't mean 10x faster shipping”

Helped: Generating a complex cross-stack feature in an afternoon.

Got in the way: Testing and merging the generated code took weeks.

… I had Claude write a cross-stack feature touching our database, cloud infra, mobile app, and the embedded application running on our hardware devices at work. What would usually take me a week took an afternoon to generate. But it still took weeks to test and merge. …