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YesCursor, Claude · 15 Mar 2026

AI has over doubled the speed at which I can write backend code

DefineOutside on Hacker News

over doubled the speed at which I can write backend code

In the thread “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?”

Helped: Reading folder of previous projects to pick up patterns.

Got in the way: GWT lacks public training data; new pricing model is unsustainable.

… We are given a design spec to implement, which usually spans a few hundred pages. AI has over doubled the speed at which I can write backend code. We've done the same task so many times before with previous warehouses, that we have a gold mine of patterns that AI can pick up on if we have a folder of previous projects that it can read. …