The results are impressive, it took about four hours to do a non-trivial refactor I had wanted but would have needed a few days to complete myself
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four hours to do a non-trivial refactor
In the thread “Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion”, replying to this comment
Helped: Thought out context file, planning, and close monitoring of the model's plan.
Got in the way: Model occasionally made choices that were too complicated or neglected corner cases.
… A week ago I decided to give Claude a serious try - use it as the main tool for my current work, with a thought out context file, planning etc. The results are impressive, it took about four hours to do a non-trivial refactor I had wanted but would have needed a few days to complete myself. A simpler feature where I'd need an hour of mostly mechanical work got completed in ten minutes by Claude. …