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YesClaude Code · 16 May 2026

In my experience, it fixes bugs better than I could, at least given a short time budget

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… I was very wrong. In my experience, it fixes bugs better than I could, at least given a short time budget (which is always the case, if we spend too much time on each bug we just fix bugs slower than they get reported and we'd enter a death spiral). I have worked on this code base for more than 10 years, touched every part of it, and I wrote large chunks of most systems, despite around 20 people working on it right now. …