Comment by risyachka

>> but I reworked the code manually to 1/10 of the size proposed by Opus.

yeah it writes so much code its crazy - where it can be solved, like you mentioned, with 1/10th

I mean they are in the token business, so this is expected to continue as long as they possibly can as long as they are a bit better than competition.

This is what 99% of devs that praise Claude Code don't notice. The real productivity gains are much lower than 10x.

Maybe they are like 2x tops.

The real gains is that you can be lazy now.

In reality most tasks you do with LLM (not talking about greenfield projects, those are vanity metrics) can be completed by human in mostly same time with 1/10th of code - but the catch here is you need to actually think and work instead of talking to chat or watching YouTube while prompt is running, which becomes 100x harder after you use LLM extensively for a week or so.