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Plain the AI moved his repo in 20 minutes while a senior spent weeks building agent skills

Threw plain the AI at a git repo move with no skills or tools and finished in 20 minutes while multitasking, while a senior spent 6 to 8 weeks building the AI skills for the same job and moved only 5 repos.

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How it works

  1. He throws plain the AI, no skills or tools, at a git repo move
  2. Finishes in 20 minutes while multitasking
  3. While a senior spent 6 to 8 weeks building agent skills for the same class of work

Why it’s worth knowing

Sometimes the scaffolding costs more than the job.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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