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by itissid 259 days ago
A few days ago I read an article from humnanlayer. They mentioned shipping a weeks worth of collaborative work in less than a day. That was one data point on a project.

- Has anyone found claude code been able to documentation for parts of the code which does not:

(a). Explode in maintenance time exponentially to help claude understand and iterate without falling over/hallucinating/design poorly?

(b). Use it to make code reviewers life easy? If so how?

I think the key issue for me is the time the human takes to *verify*/*maintain* plans is not much less than what it might take them to come up with a plan that is detailed enough that many AI models could easily implement.

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It is pretty tiresome with the hype tweets and not being able to judge the vibe code cruft and demoware factor.

Especially on bootstrap/setup, AIs are fantastic for cutting out massive amounts of time, which is a huge boon for our profession. But core logic? I think that's where the not-really-saving-time studies are coming from.

I'm surprised there aren't faux academic B-school productivity studies coming out to counter that (sponsored by AI funding of course) already, but then again I don't read B-school journals.

I actually wonder if the halflife decay of the critical mass of vibecode will almost perfectly coincide with the crash/vroosh of labor leaving the profession to clean it up. It might be a mini-y2k event, without such a dramatic single day.