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NoClaude · 21 Sep 2025

As Claude's safety driver I have to intervene in perhaps 25-50% of tasks

zarzavat on Hacker News

25-50% of tasks

In the thread “AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger?”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Inexplicably messes up critical codebase parts.

… We are at the level of the original Waymo cars where they had to have a person behind the wheel ready to take the controls, just in case it inexplicably decided to drive off a bridge. As Claude's safety driver I have to intervene in perhaps 25-50% of tasks. Some days I don't even open Claude because I'm working on a part of the codebase that has to be just so and I know Claude would mess it up. …