we fixed over 100 failing integration tests in a week for a major refactor using claude plus some human(s) in the loop
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fixed over 100 failing integration tests in a week
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Helped: Automated log pulling and overnight churn loops for debugging.
Got in the way: Claude went in strange directions without human guidance.
… don't scale. In the exercise I described above, I was just prompt churning between meetings (having claude record its work and feeding it to the next prompt, pulling test logs in between attempts), without much time to analyze, while another engineer on my team was analyzing and actually manually troubleshooting the vibe coded junk I was pushing up, but we fixed over 100 failing integration tests in a week for a major refactor using claude plus some human(s) in the loop. I do believe it got things done faster than we would have finished without AI. …