[kuboble]

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.

[tovej]

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?

[kuboble]

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.