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donwtoday at 5:09 AM2 repliesview on HN

I'm really curious, what sort of work you were having it do such that you could execute multiple days of work with minimal supervision.


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nevi-metoday at 5:43 AM

I maintain a transit website as a hobby, and I'm building a Flutter app, from scratch. The old pre-COVID one carried mental baggage.

I spent a few weekends building comprehensive plans, designs, user maps, etc with Claude. So it has enough context to make decisions and keep going.

One session lasted over a day, I imagine partly because Fable + superpowers feels slow. I have an app on my phone that I have been test running since Monday on the bus.

What really helps (not sure if Opus used to do this) is that Claude will run through the emulator on its own, verifying that the design aligns with the Figma design system we created.

This is all building on top of 15 years of existing backend and rich features, so it's not a "build me a transit platform from scratch" where AI can end up making bad decisions.

jakswatoday at 5:25 AM

The best project I found to throw it at was cloning llama-server's web UI essentially in one shot. I'm not sure what I'll do with 5 extra days, maybe try to imagine some complex features. I'm no longer surprised at how much seems to work in these "new brain what can it do?" test, and instead think the risk is feeling like I have to take it the rest of the way once I've sunk the token cost :| https://inkcap.click

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