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YesClaude · 6 Jun 2026

The stuff that used to take days now takes hours

LouisSayers on Hacker News

The stuff that used to take days now takes hours.

In the thread “Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?”, replying to this comment

Helped: Defining functionality and filling gaps in well-shaped codebases.

… Work then mostly becomes a matter of defining what the next piece of functionality is (which you can also use Claude to help with). The stuff that used to take days now takes hours. It's not perfect, but if you get your codebase into a good shape then the payoff is huge.