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YesGPT · 6 Apr 2026

Pointed GPT Pro at it, told it what new functionality I wanted, and it churns away for 40 minutes and completely knocks it out of the park

hyperbovine on Hacker News

Estimated time savings of about 3-4 weeks

In the thread “Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates”, replying to this comment

Helped: Pointing it at large scientific code base and specifying new functionality.

… Large scientific code base with a bunch of nontrivial, handwritten modules accomplishing distinct, but structurally similar in terms of the underlying computation, tasks. Pointed GPT Pro at it, told it what new functionality I wanted, and it churns away for 40 minutes and completely knocks it out of the park. Estimated time savings of about 3-4 weeks. …