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NoClaude · 5 May 2026

There was a one line fix that Claude couldn't find on its own

yodsanklai on Hacker News

In the thread “Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Generated verbose, intricate code with performance regressions and missed simple fixes.

… After a day of asynchronous iterations on this, I finally sit down to look at this problem. There was a one line fix that Claude couldn't find on its own. I lost time, reviewer lost time, and if this had been shipped as is, the system would have been worse. …