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this cuts delivery time roughly in half compared to writing everything manually
evara-ai on Hacker News
cuts delivery time roughly in half
In the thread “Parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs”
Helped: Writing detailed markdown specs before implementation.
Got in the way: Using 6-8 parallel agents caused merge conflicts.
… The pattern I've converged on: spend the first 30 minutes writing detailed markdown specs (inputs, outputs, edge cases, integration points), then let Claude Code chew through the implementation while I review, test, and iterate. For a typical automation project — say a WhatsApp bot that handles booking flows and integrates with a client's CRM — this cuts delivery time roughly in half compared to writing everything manually. The biggest practical lesson: the spec quality is everything. …