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Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago

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Re: Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago

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Post by EGreg »

jononor wrote: post #78
EGreg wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cherrypicking the most tedious parts, like boilerplate to get up and running, or porting code to other adapters (making mysqlite and postgres adapters for instance) This was done in about 3 hours for instance: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/tree/refactor/DbQuery/platf... You can see the speed for yourself. Here is my first speedrun livestreamed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg6UFyIPYNY

Why not merged to main? What is the definition of done being applied here?

The code is stable and partially tested. Needs a lot more testing before committing it to main. This is mainly because the primary ORM adapter for MySQL has been rewritten, and a lot of apps use it.

I think in 2026 the automation will reach the testing, closing the loop. At that point, no humans in the loop will make software development extremely fast.

Re: Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago

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Post by satvikpendem »

peteforde wrote: post #91
satvikpendem wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you see as the difference between Claude Code and Cursor agent mode, since you said Claude Code doesn't work for your type of project so I'm curious why that is. Edit, I see you answered this in another response, thanks.

While I am vaguely aware that CC has started to move past its CLI-first roots, I still think of it as a process that you do in a terminal window vs something you do in an IDE like VSCode or Cursor. I don't have any interest in yucking anyone's yum, but for me, I find working in and IDE to be vastly more productive than trying to remember dozens of vim and tmux shortcuts.

Claude Code has a Cursor and VSCode extension so it replaces their chat sidebars, which is how many people use it today over just the CLI. What I'm trying to understand is how they're different if so, but it seems like what I'm learning is that they're basically converging in functionality and commoditizing for now and it comes down to personal preference. Personally I still use Cursor because it has a lot of other models than just Claude ones, but I guess some people trust Anthropic enough to not want any other models that may arise in the future too.

Re: Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago

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Post by peteforde »

satvikpendem wrote: post #102
peteforde wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I am vaguely aware that CC has started to move past its CLI-first roots, I still think of it as a process that you do in a terminal window vs something you do in an IDE like VSCode or Cursor. I don't have any interest in yucking anyone's yum, but for me, I find working in and IDE to be vastly more productive than trying to remember dozens of vim and tmux shortcuts.

Claude Code has a Cursor and VSCode extension so it replaces their chat sidebars, which is how many people use it today over just the CLI. What I'm trying to understand is how they're different if so, but it seems like what I'm learning is that they're basically converging in functionality and commoditizing for now and it comes down to personal preference. Personally I still use Cursor because it has a lot of other m…

Yep, that's exactly what I meant when I said that CC is moving past it's CLI-first roots.

I haven't personally tried the CC extension because like you, I concluded that it sounds like a single-company Cursor with way fewer points of integration into the IDE.

I hate bikeshedding and rarely do I switch tooling unless something is demonstrably better; preferably 10x better. For me, the Cursor IDE experience is easily 10x better than copying and pasting from ChatGPT, which is why I created this thread in the first place.

Re: Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago

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Post by [deleted] »

peteforde wrote: post #83
judahmeek wrote: post #71

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"it doesn't make sense" is an odd statement to make for choosing Claude Code vs Cursor. Would you be willing to go into more detail about that claim?

Happy to! CC seems best suited to situations where one or both of the following are true: - presence of CI infrastructure - the ability for the agent to run/test outputs from the run loop If you're primarily working on embedded hardware, human-in-the-loop is not optional. In real terms, I am the CI infrastructure. Also, working on hardware means that I am often discussing the circuit with the LLM in a much more colla…

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Re: Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago

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Post by peteforde »

judahmeek wrote: post #71
peteforde wrote: post #55

There's a small but seemingly tireless brigade of "you're not actually moving faster, you're just fooling yourself" pundits on this site that feel compelled to chime in every time someone mentions that they get any benefit from AI coding tools. I'm just not going to engage with them anymore. That said... I jumped to a few random moments in your video and had an "oh my god" reaction because you really were not kidding…

"it doesn't make sense" is an odd statement to make for choosing Claude Code vs Cursor. Would you be willing to go into more detail about that claim?

BTW: it's a statement, not a claim.

The framing of your question as though I might possibly be hallucinating my own situation might be correlated to your lack of reply.

Re: Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago

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Post by judahmeek »

peteforde wrote: post #105
judahmeek wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"it doesn't make sense" is an odd statement to make for choosing Claude Code vs Cursor. Would you be willing to go into more detail about that claim?

BTW: it's a statement, not a claim. The framing of your question as though I might possibly be hallucinating my own situation might be correlated to your lack of reply.

AFAIK, all statements are claims.

I didn't reply because I haven't had available energy to properly analyze your reply. At a glance, your reply does seem completely reasonable, which is why I upvoted it.

Re: Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago

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Post by usefulposter »

EGreg wrote: post #28
germandiago wrote: post #10

If you can do this and you do not build your own company you are wasting your time in some way, IMHO. It has lots of potential. Let me, though, have my own... doubts about it. Thanks for sharing anyway.

I already built 2 companies and building a third. https://linkedin.com/in/magarshak

What's the path to profitability for those?

Re: Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago

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Post by danlugo92 »

63stack wrote: post #65
EGreg wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure. Here is my latest 4-hour speedrun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg6UFyIPYNY

I appreciate the video. I see that most of the time it's the dialogue with the AI that is in the focus, the code or the actual product rarely shows up compared to that (or maybe it does? I can't read the text on the video due to the quality). It's hard to tell where this 20-50x increase is.

So this was all just an ad (viral campaign, literal vapor) I see
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