Most of the code I’ve written today could’ve been written by Claude, with some manual intervention and guidance in between. Because it was a lot of work where you look at similar implementations in the codebase and do roughly the same, which AIs are generally good at.

But

Then I would’ve only learned a tiny fraction about the existing code, and I likely wouldn’t understand half of it. By doing everything by myself, I learned so many things about the codebase that will be massively helpful in the future.

Most of the code I’ve written today could’ve been written by Claude, with some manual intervention and guidance in between. Because it was a lot of work where you look at similar implementations in the codebase and do roughly the same, which AIs are generally good at.

But

Then I would’ve only learned a tiny fraction about the existing code, and I likely wouldn’t understand half of it. By doing everything by myself, I learned so many things about the codebase that will be massively helpful in the future.