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YesChatGPT · 5 Jun 2026

What could have taken hours was done in minutes, and when I asked follow-up questions and poked and prodded, it answered everything correctly

keeda on Hacker News

What could have taken hours was done in minutes

In the thread “Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?”

Helped: Solving a specific coding problem and iterating on approaches.

… The code ran but then I realized I had misunderstood my own problem, which led me to explore and iterate on various approaches to find which worked best. What could have taken hours was done in minutes, and when I asked follow-up questions and poked and prodded, it answered everything correctly. That's when I knew that the world had changed forever.