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bee_ridertoday at 5:37 PM1 replyview on HN

Did they end up getting what they wanted?

This LLM stuff is still quite new; I wouldn’t be surprised if people are still asking for your help wrong.


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lelanthrantoday at 6:01 PM

> Did they end up getting what they wanted?

Who knows. I don't take on any dev work anymore that involves modifying existing applications, anyway. Too many have been of the form "Look, we did 99% of it, we just need you to do the 1% remaining" with the expectation that finding and fixing bugs in a vibed 90kSloC application is only a few minutes to a few hours of human labour.

In reality, if you bring me something that Claude Code itself can't make changes to without breaking, it's going to be at least a week of billable hours before I know where to start.