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YesCodex · 7 Mar 2026

I've compressed what should be well over half a year of work in a few weeks

jillesvangurp on Hacker News

compressed what should be well over half a year of work in a few weeks

In the thread “Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion”

Helped: Decades of experience to correct generation and ask right things.

Got in the way: CLI and web versions only worked for small things before.

… But with recent codex versions things started working a lot better and more reliably. I've compressed what should be well over half a year of work in a few weeks. It's early days but as the saying goes, this is the worst and slowest its ever going to be. …