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NoClaude · 15 Mar 2026

I noticed Claude produces perfectly plausible code that has very subtle bugs that get harder and harder to notice

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In the thread “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Plausible code with subtle bugs that were hard to detect.

> If you aren't doing this level of work by now, you will be automated soon. It's harder and harder to detect sarcasm these days but in case you're being serious, I've tested a similar setup and I noticed Claude produces perfectly plausible code that has very subtle bugs that get harder and harder to notice. In the end, the initial speedup was gone and I decided to rewrite everything by hand. …