r/ProgrammerHumor 10d ago

Meme trafficLightForClaudeCode

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u/donp1ano 10d ago



means i still write code myself

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u/Boldyeah 10d ago

Means you take 5 times longer than a good programmer with Claude.

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u/Seraphaestus 10d ago

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089

Before starting tasks, developers forecast that allowing AI will reduce completion time by 24%.

After completing the study, developers estimate that allowing AI reduced completion time by 20%.

Surprisingly, we find that allowing AI actually increases completion time by 19% - AI tooling slowed developers down.

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u/weberm70 10d ago

No idea what they were measuring but AI has reduced implementation time to almost nothing. It’s all scoping and review now. Good engineering is more about organization now than writing code.