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YesChatGPT · 23 Aug 2026

I wouldn’t have even tried it, without an LLM. That made all the difference

ChrisMarshallNY on Hacker News

In the thread “Fast and Hard Code”, replying to this comment

Helped: Chat inference for full app rewrite

Got in the way: Agentic coding was not useful

… It’s a full rewrite (backend server, and frontend client) of a fairly large app that’s been shipping for a couple of years, and that took over two years, to originally write. I wouldn’t have even tried it, without an LLM. That made all the difference. The majority of the work was done with the $20/month ChatGPT Plus subscription, but the last few days, as I developed supporting materials and Web sites, I used the $100/month Pro level. …