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YesCodex · 4 May 2026

But with a small team we are building useful internal tools and features at a breakneck pace

iandanforth on Hacker News

5x the time

In the thread “Agentic Coding Is a Trap”

Helped: Small modular systems and greenfield projects.

Got in the way: Agents fall over on mid-sized projects.

… I couldn't fizzbuzz in it. But with a small team we are building useful internal tools and features at a breakneck pace. I certainly feel the same feelings of getting dumber and losing my coding chops, but I have to step back and say, could what we've built have been built in 5x the time without agents? …