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YesCodex · 11 May 2026

This simple process has enabled me to deliver most minor/medium tasks and bug fixes really quickly while maintaining control over the changes and without lowering the quality bar

tcgv on Hacker News

In the thread “I'm going back to writing code by hand”, replying to this comment

Helped: Tightly scoped specs, 3x solutions, and line-by-line review.

… In the technical spec, I include the major architectural requirements and code conventions, and I also add a catch-all like "follow the codebase's existing conventions and style", which works reasonably well. This simple process has enabled me to deliver most minor/medium tasks and bug fixes really quickly while maintaining control over the changes and without lowering the quality bar. For larger and more challenging tasks, I find myself "driving the wheel" (i.e. …