Comment by Brendinooo

The article brushed aside devs being terrible at estimates, but I dunno.

I'm a frontend guy, been using Claude Code for a couple of weeks now. It's been able to speed up some boilerplate, it's sped up a lot of "naming is hard" conversations I like to have (but my coworkers probably don't, lol), it's enabled me to do a lot more stuff in my most recent project.

But for a task or two I suspect that it has slowed me down. If I'm unable to articulate the problem well enough and the problem is hard enough you can go in circles for awhile. And I think the nature of "the right answer is just around the corner" makes it hard to timebox or find a specific point where you say "yup, time to ditch this and do it the old-fashioned way". There is a bit of a slot-machine effect here.