About a Google engineer saying Claude Code built in an hour what her team spent a year on.
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About a Google engineer saying Claude Code built in an hour what her team spent a year on.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
how long would it take someone to reimplement DynamoDB's APIs? they're trivial. that was never the hard part....
I'll be impressed when a big service like Google Photos can run 100% with LLM Oncall without paging anyone or any human intervention. FWIW this was always my benchmark.