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Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?

(martinalderson.com)
413 points martinald | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 19:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Normal_gaussian ◴[08 Dec 25 22:15 UTC] No.46198373[source]▶
> I've had Claude Code write an entire unit/integration test suite in a few hours (300+ tests) for a fairly complex internal tool. This would take me, or many developers I know and respect, days to write by hand.

I'm not sure about this. The tests I've gotten out in a few hours are the kind I'd approve if another dev sent then but haven't really ended up finding meaningful issues.

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kace91 ◴[08 Dec 25 22:21 UTC] No.46198433[source]▶
Have you noticed how it's never "I got this awesome code!"? It's always "I got good code, trust me".

People say their prompts are good, awesome code is being generated, it solved a month's worth of work in a minute. Nobody comes with receipts.

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dboreham ◴[08 Dec 25 22:24 UTC] No.46198466[source]▶
I keep seeing posts like this so I decided to video record all my LLM coding sessions and post them on YouTube. Early days, I only had the idea on Saturday.
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1. onraglanroad ◴[09 Dec 25 16:22 UTC] No.46206796[source]▶
Possibly it would have been a good idea to include a link to the channel?