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YesClaude Code · 19 May 2026

It does indeed need babysitting, my mental model is that it's an exoskeleton not a junior dev, but IME it's a friggin badass exoskeleton, easily 10x-ing my speed on most work

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easily 10x-ing my speed on most work

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Helped: Micromanaging and reviewing every line written

… At least in JS + TS + Elixir + Ruby. It does indeed need babysitting, my mental model is that it's an exoskeleton not a junior dev, but IME it's a friggin badass exoskeleton, easily 10x-ing my speed on most work. Notably I do NOT --dangerously-skip-permissions nor use claude code's auto mode, I micromanage and lightly review every line it's writing as it writes it, so I rarely have more than 2 sessions generating simultaneously. …