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YesClaude · 18 Apr 2026

The rewritten app is doing fine in production for a while now

aenis on Hacker News

2 months for a complete rewrite

In the thread “Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs”, replying to this comment

Helped: Specs, refactoring, tests, and human oversight.

Got in the way: Claude ignored instructions and required heavy review time.

… The one project I mentioned - 2 months for a complete rewrite - was about a week of working on the code and almost 2 months spent on reviews, tests, and of course some of that time was wasted as we were doing this for the first time for such a large codebase. The rewritten app is doing fine in production for a while now. I can only compare the outputs to the quality of the outputs of our regular engineering teams. …