No
The problem, however, is that to review Claude’s code properly takes 2-3x the amount of time it would have taken me to write it all by hand
Xcelerate on Hacker News
1/10 - 1/4 of the time
In the thread “2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026”
Got in the way: Reviewing generated code takes 2-3x longer than writing it by hand.
… Or I can use Claude to do it, and it does it in 1/10 - 1/4 of the time. The problem, however, is that to review Claude’s code properly takes 2-3x the amount of time it would have taken me to write it all by hand. So my two choices are basically “YOLO, LGTM” and hope I can revert if it breaks something, or to just write all the code by hand from the start. …