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MixedClaude Code · 9 Aug 2025

By the time everything works and is up to my standards, I‘ve usually taken longer, or almost as long, as if I‘d written everything manually

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In the thread “The current state of LLM-driven development”, replying to this comment

Helped: Whipping up greenfield projects is almost magical.

Got in the way: Complex structured concurrency and custom operators took longer than manual.

My workflow with a medium sized iOS codebase is a bit like that. By the time everything works and is up to my standards, I‘ve usually taken longer, or almost as long, as if I‘d written everything manually. That’s with Opus-only Claude Code. …