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YesClaude · 13 May 2026

Normally that would take me all day to do, with a 30 minute code change. Now I can do that in about 15 minutes

tomaytotomato on Hacker News

Normally that would take me all day to do, with a 30 minute code change. Now I can do that in about 15 minutes

In the thread “Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains”

Helped: Suggesting elegant helper methods and handling boring research/cleanup tasks.

… To add to that, what I find most helpful is the boring stuff, the JIRA cleanup, trawling Wikis and other sources to find out what the historical context of something was. Normally that would take me all day to do, with a 30 minute code change. Now I can do that in about 15 minutes and think about building or shipping some tool which I never had time to do.