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NoClaude · 14 Mar 2026

I managed to get something working that was probably more code than I would have written in 4 hours, but I think it was probably worse than what I would have come up with on my own

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In the thread “1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6”, replying to this comment

Helped: Targeted changes, explaining, and debugging in VS Studio.

Got in the way: Built tests for wrong code; modified dev database; poor quality.

… When I managed to fix that, it decided that it needed to rebuild multiple docker components before each test and test them down after each one. After about 4 hours and $75, I managed to get something working that was probably more code than I would have written in 4 hours, but I think it was probably worse than what I would have come up with on my own. And I really have no idea if it works because the day was over and I didn’t have the energy left to review it all. …