Comment by jen729w

There's a false dichotomy here between 'deterministic creation' and 'vibing'.

I use Claude all day. It has written, under my close supervision¹, the majority of my new web app. As a result I estimate the process took 10x less time than had I not used Claude, and I estimate the code to be 5x better quality (as I am a frankly mediocre developer).

But I understand what the code does. It's just Astro and TypeScript. It's not magic. I understand the entire thing; not just 'the prompt that started it'.

¹I never fire-and-forget. I prompt-and-watch. Opus 4.7 still needs to be monitored.