No
it can take more time to review and fix the generated code as it would to hand-write it
zarzavat on Hacker News
In the thread “Agents that run while I sleep”, replying to this comment
Helped: Minority of tasks where prompting is faster than hand-writing.
Got in the way: Reviewing and fixing generated code takes more time than hand-writing.
… Here I am mostly writing code by hand, with some AI assistant help. I have a Claude subscription but only use it occasionally because it can take more time to review and fix the generated code as it would to hand-write it. Claude only saves me time on a minority of tasks where it's faster to prompt than hand-write. …