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MixedChatGPT, Claude Code · 7 Jun 2026

It just did it as if by magic

alanb99 on Hacker News

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

Helped: Upgrading a forked open-source library and creating an MCP server.

Got in the way: Editing library code instead of user code and writing bad tests.

… But then recently I asked Claude Code to upgrade a particular library for me that I had forked and to reapply the changes I had made in my fork. It just did it as if by magic. As if it already knew everything about the original library. …