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Google engineer says Claude Code built in one hour what her team spent a year on

submitted by ksec+(OP) on 2026-01-03 15:47:00 | 60 points 80 comments
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5. xnx+q9[view] [source] 2026-01-03 16:34:03
>>ksec+(OP)
"I'm not joking and this isn't funny. We have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. There are various options, not everyone is aligned... I gave Claude Code a description of the problem, it generated what we built last year in an hour."

https://x.com/rakyll/status/2007239758158975130

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13. Andrew+ma[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-03 16:37:58
>>fishgo+09
This comment is precisely one of the inputs to the moving goal posts that happens during AI booms.

I couldn’t create a more perfect artifact of the AI effect than what this poster posted

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

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75. Kim_Br+4V1[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-04 05:52:02
>>Quadma+Mb
Kluger/Clever Hans? [1]

The funny thing is: the abilities that people thought of as clever at the time (doing maths) can be done with a $1 component these days. The thing Clever Hans actually did (reading the audience) is something we spend billions on, and in some circles it's still up for debate whether anything can do it.

see also: Moravec's Paradox [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox

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