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NoClaude · 24 Aug 2026

engineers are pumping out code faster than the humans can understand and (honestly) review it

ryandvm on Hacker News

10% necessary feature work and 90% LLM boilerplate

In the thread “Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance”

Got in the way: Engineers cannot review the volume of AI-generated code.

… Okay, that kind of works for a while. We are indeed producing a shit-ton of code, but the reality is that engineers are pumping out code faster than the humans can understand and (honestly) review it. That sounds great until you realize that "hey Claude, read this Jira ticket and implement the feature in this code base" isn't really worth $200K/year. …