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YesClaude · 12 Aug 2026

It does exactly what I ask it to, in 10 minutes instead of 3 weeks

trey-jones on Hacker News

10 minutes instead of 3 weeks

In the thread “AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?”, replying to this comment

Helped: Familiarity with existing projects and backlog items.

Got in the way: Not 100% success rate.

… But honestly claude is better than any team of developers I've ever had working under me. It does exactly what I ask it to, in 10 minutes instead of 3 weeks. And apparently we can't afford a development team now anyway... …