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Show HN: AI agent needs process to build a commercial application

By abalgir 2 min read 1 views 0 comments
Show HN: AI agent needs process to build a commercial application
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I decided to test this claim with my app, NoMoreHappyPath (NMHP), against Claude on a real project.Here is the test:I built Acremuse, a commercial real estate analysis platform, with Claude Desktop and Codex as a reviewer. It is deployed and used today by a couple of investors. Then I wondered what I'd missed that might bite me later.~ 374,000 Lines of program code - 1,070 Source files (Python and TypeScript) - ~ 11,400 Functions and methods - 3,067 Automated testsSo I gave the same 374k-line code snapshot and the same brief to one Claude session that can use Codex as a reviewer and to my own tool, NMHP. My directive was the same for both: Analyze the code, find any errors/bugs, and list them by severity. Findings must be reviewed before writing the final report.The Results (Verified by an impartial, blind Codex judge):NMHP: 33 real issues found. 7 false claims.Claude: 10 real issues found. 2 false claims.Only 6 issues overlapped.Time & Cost:
From the owner's go-ahead to the reviewer's pass, NoMoreHappyPath took about 74 minutes, including time lost while it found and worked around a defect in the product itself. The Python version NMHP was working on was 3.9, the OS version, and…

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