The outcome has been awesome. The performance is steadily climbing (especially in the database), and most common errors when I started are either gone or much better understood with plans to address them
steve_adams_86 on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)”
Helped: Using LLMs for specs, planning, verification, and research.
Got in the way: React improvements require risky, large refactoring diffs.
… LLMs are great assistants for this work and I’m having a ton of fun having so many opportunities to figure out what works and what doesn’t. The outcome has been awesome. The performance is steadily climbing (especially in the database), and most common errors when I started are either gone or much better understood with plans to address them. I’ve almost got it set up so if someone needs to take it over in the future, it should be pretty easy to toss them the keys and trust that they can deploy and maintain it easily from the docs and systems I’ve created. …