While the technical decisions and code weren't bad and design gaps were left clearly enumerated, the overall "human factor" was terrible
steelframe on Hacker News
20 hours to produce ~73k LoC across 22 PRs
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Helped: Using Opus to rewrite verbose plan docs and PR descriptions.
Got in the way: GPT-6.1 Sol produced overly-verbose, difficult-to-read documentation and PR text.
… I used GPT-6.1 Sol for one big project I tackled last week, where the agents spent about 20 hours to produce ~73k LoC across 22 PRs. While the technical decisions and code weren't bad and design gaps were left clearly enumerated, the overall "human factor" was terrible, in the sense that the plan docs were overly-verbose and difficult to read and PR descriptions were abysmal. Numbers and words were run together all over the place where there should have been spaces. …