Comment by tovej
3 days ago
Out of interest, could you give me an example of a feature that it one-shotted that would have taken you a whole day?
3 days ago
Out of interest, could you give me an example of a feature that it one-shotted that would have taken you a whole day?
The example from yesterday:
I have a large C# application. In this application I have a functionality to convert some group of settings into a tree model (a list of commands to generate this tree). There are a lot of weird settings and special cases.
I asked claude to extract this logic into a separate python module.
It succesfully one-shot that, and I would estimate it as 2 days work for me (and I wrote the original C# code).
This is probabaly the best possible kind of task for the coding agents, given that it's very well defined task with already existing testcases.
Seems reasonable, but if it's just copy pasting, doesn't seem like that would take you a whole day. Maybe on the order of an hour at most.
Were you exaggerating earlier or do you have more examples?
This is a two-day task for me. If you could do it in one hour, then you're a 10x programmer compared to me.
You can browse the code at <my_username>.com/slop/hn_tb/
I have also sloped the simple code viewer. So you can make your judgement if it looks like 1 hour task.