Mixed
I gave them my estimate - 2 weeks. Asked Claude to do it, and was done in an hour
legohead on Hacker News
average 5x my "normal" performance
In the thread “2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026”
Helped: Gutting a basic codebase for a vendor.
Got in the way: Lack of mental fortitude to sustain high intensity.
… I had a task to completely gut out a codebase to share with a vendor. I gave them my estimate - 2 weeks. Asked Claude to do it, and was done in an hour. Reviewed the changes, and it was perfect. …