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YesClaude · 5 Sep 2026

I’ve become 10 times more diligent because it is a lot easier to do

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10 times more diligent

In the thread “AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems”, replying to this comment

Helped: Claude insists on double-checking and testing infrastructure changes.

Got in the way: New engineers lack foundational skills to guide the agent correctly.

… When I was doing this myself I would read the docs and just implement them - claud is going about doing real software archeology to figure if what is said is actually the truth or it’s stale/inaccurate/buggy. I’ve become 10 times more diligent because it is a lot easier to do. It’s no longer Urgh it’s good enough let’s ship it, now it’s “sure put a leg on it to figure it out and double check it”. …