Encouraging Claude cuts test suite time from 8 mins to 35 secs
mhmazur · x · 2026-08-30
A user's unit test suite took 8 minutes, causing Claude to spend 3 hours daily testing. Asking Claude to "make it faster" cut it to 4 minutes. Subsequent encouraging prompts like "I believe in you" and "You got this" pushed Claude to optimize further, reducing the runtime to 35 seconds.
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