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YesGPT · 26 Jun 2026

Doing the same in a week feels like tapping into some sort of forbidden black magic

jiggawatts on Hacker News

6 months minimum for a human developer

In the thread “U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6”, replying to this comment

Helped: Automating wholesale rewrite of legacy templates and complex dependencies.

… I would have estimated 6 months minimum for a human developer to uplift it, but 12 months is more realistic. Doing the same in a week feels like tapping into some sort of forbidden black magic. It feels like I can't admit this to anyone, lest they think I dabble in the dark arts.