Comment by mahogany

Genuine question - do you feel that you understand a code change well enough by only viewing diffs, enough to push the Claude code as “your own”? I can see this for some types of PRs but for anything that is relatively complex or touches multiple files, I personally have to open an editor and navigate through the code paths to really grok if an AI’s (or a human’s for that matter) change is correct.

Is this something people widely vary on? I suspect a lot of people are not like me given that I do see people saying things such as “I rarely use my ide/editor any more” with AI, hence my question to you. Maybe I’m just bad at keeping the code base all in my head.

I do agree with you that I feel that I am coding less myself and I do miss that for sure. But the job demands otherwise.