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YesClaude · 6 Jun 2026

We are at step 8 of 9 in about 12 hours of work

pmontra on Hacker News

12 hours of work

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

Helped: Spec review, implementation planning, and writing code with tests.

… It wrote the code for a step with new automatic tests and I performed some manual QA, which found further issues we didn't think about. We are at step 8 of 9 in about 12 hours of work. I would have needed a week to be there alone, with time spent researching and fixing bugs I created along the way, an inevitable part of our job but not exactly the most pleasant one. …