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YesClaude · 11 May 2026

So I decided to keep Claude’s solution over my basic, naive one

brabel on Hacker News

In the thread “I'm going back to writing code by hand”, replying to this comment

Helped: Using Claude for a hard mathematical problem where the writer could verify correctness via tests.

… I, however, know exactly the properties of the desired solution and how to test it’s correct. So I decided to keep Claude’s solution over my basic, naive one. I mentioned that in the pull request and everyone agreed that was the right call. …