Comment by apwell23

I think, there's nuance. If a human can solve a problem without second thoughts and hesitations (Hey, stop, this doesn't look right. Are there other options?), an LLM will tear through it at breakneck speed.

But if there are things worth hesitating and weighing, LLM will fly past them at cruising speed.

There are plenty of problems of both kinds.

The statement you quoted is ambiguous. I'd say "Claude makes the boring parts of coding super fast, tearing through the stuff I didn't want to do and helping me get to the stuff I did want to do."

I'm an experienced dev (this year is my 10 year anniversary of 'officially' being in the industry). I've been using Claude Code over these last two weeks. It's like a magical code generator tool e.g. protoc; if you can describe the rote and boring "do this tedious x->y translation", then it can probably bang that out with tests in a couple minutes, making it easy for you to focus on the logic. It's not that Claude Code is doing the "programming", it's more like Claude is doing the typing (and it types REALLY fast). Literally imagine if you could type as fast as you could think, like just saying "oh I'll need functions covering x/y/z behaviors and cases, similar to the other functions already present but tailored like <way>." All you had to do was type that sentence and it wrote basically what you would have written, but instantly.