Hacker News Reader

> I mean, where is: "I rewrote Redis from scratch using Claude Code and here is the repo"?

This is one of my big datapoints in the skepticism, there's all these articles about how individual developers are doing amazing things, but almost no data points about the increase of productivity as a result.

View on HN

I must have written somewhere that I’m believing these claims once Linux UI becomes as polished as MacOS. Surely if LLMs are outputting this much quality code that shouldn’t take long, right?

Meanwhile I see WhatsApp sunsetting their native clients and making everything a single web-based client. I guess they must not be using LLMs to code if they can’t cope with maintaining the existing codebases, right?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com