Yes
For Claude, an hour was a -8000 line PR that kept all the tests, with all the assertions
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-8000 line PR
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Helped: Standardizing test initialization and creating helper methods to minimize boilerplate.
… Any dev can do that, if they have a week, and it'll future code changes more pleasant later. For Claude, an hour was a -8000 line PR that kept all the tests, with all the assertions. It's what people need to figure out out of a a codebase. …