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YesClaude · 6 Jun 2026

Claude, with access to DataDog and a code repo, managed to find the reason for a bug, propose an effective temporary fix and a permanent one in code

jonyt on Hacker News

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

Helped: Access to DataDog and code repo for debugging; creative writing capability.

… Claude has really improved its creative writing skills lately, I wonder if it's an artifact of improvements in other fields, or if Anthropic is working on it specifically. Second, Claude, with access to DataDog and a code repo, managed to find the reason for a bug, propose an effective temporary fix and a permanent one in code. To be clear, this was something that had multiple engineers stumped.