No
the productivity gains do shrink massively (and sometimes go negative) if you actually attempt to gain the level of understanding you'd have of the system had you written it yourself
NateEag on Hacker News
In the thread “Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved”, replying to this comment
Got in the way: Gaining the level of understanding one would have from writing code themselves.
Whether or not he's serious, as someone who's grudgingly using Claude at work due to mandates, the productivity gains do shrink massively (and sometimes go negative) if you actually attempt to gain the level of understanding you'd have of the system had you written it yourself. Does it matter if the developers understand the system they maintain? …