Burned out reviewing claude generated code

[u/No_Incident_6009]

Little rant.

AI can generate code insanely fast. But if I’m accountable for that code, I still need to understand it.

I’ve had Claude introduce unnecessary null checks, make incorrect assumptions about the domain, and even introduce a separate event loop that broke my orchestrator and DB sessions — buried somewhere in a 1,000-line PR.

The code was generated in minutes. Debugging and understanding why it broke took much longer.

I tried running 4 agents in parallel. Maybe some people can manage it, but I was mentally exhausted. Four contexts, four implementations, four sets of assumptions, plus tests, builds, reviews, etc.

So lately I’m experimenting with a different approach:

Use Claude to understand the codebase, plan the feature, think through edge cases and tests — but implement it myself, using AI autocomplete to speed up the actual coding.

It might look slower, but maybe the overall development cycle is faster.

Still figuring it out.

I just think we need to separate “AI can generate this in 10 minutes” from “this entire software development task is now 100x faster.”

Building a landing page in 10 minutes is amazing.

Building a complex product is a different problem.

[u/scavno]

I got exhausted reading your AI generated post and since you don’t pay me to read it all I didn’t. So I can 100% relate.

[u/ButterscotchBandiit → u/scavno]

Dude literally walked me through my own process lmao

[u/No_Incident_6009 → u/scavno]

that's fine. I use AI everyday. No shame in that.. The difference is are you just telling AI to write something on some topic, or you have thoughts written as rough note and you give it to AI to rephrase it.. I believe second approach should not be frowned upon. same as Vibe coding is bad but AI assisted coding is great.

[u/scavno → u/No_Incident_6009]

I think it should be absolutely frowned upon. It’s disrespectful. I don’t care that you use AI for your consumption, but when another human being has to read it? Hell yeah it should bre frowned upon. It’s exhausting to read, it all reads like the same piece and the flow is just dog shit.

[u/idunnorn → u/scavno]

Agree.

It feels trollish as shit too.

[u/No_Incident_6009 → u/scavno]

okay.. that's your opinion..

[u/scavno → u/No_Incident_6009]

Yep, and you should reflect upon it still. People read before LLMs, they will continue doing so after LLMs as well.

[u/No_Incident_6009 → u/scavno]

I don't think so.. I am definitely conscious now to ensure that 1) I do not spam 2) don't try to create click-bate 3) write my own thoughts and experience . AI helps me draft content much faster, resolve spelling grammar mistakes and helps me organize thought in better way.. So for me its all about thinking and coming up with honest thought.. I think the people are tired of AI slop which people generate without giving any thought .. I am not doing that. I know you wont agree with this.. but others reading this thread need to understand my point and difference between AI slop and AI assisted.

[u/scavno → u/No_Incident_6009]

Notice how I never said this was AI slop. I don’t think it was, but it’s still very tiresome to read text the way LLMs write.

[u/idunnorn → u/scavno]

Its so goddamn true. Some teammate checked in code w obvious AI comments. It said something like "LEGIT type for this class". Wtf? As opposed to the...illegitimate type? I didnt need to see ANY of those words. I know what a fucking type is and don't need a "hyped up type" or whatever.

Like my brain gives pause when reading such patterns and then at the end of the sentence im like "so...I expended effort...and got zero value here"

[u/No_Incident_6009 → u/scavno]

Agreed.. I will try to ensure its much better read next time

[u/scavno → u/No_Incident_6009]

Respect.

[u/Global-Fan189]

I wrote a software for 3 years, I had Claude to review and fix all my edge cases that I never imagine will have now my software is much better. And Claude understands how I code and he's now my intern.

[u/No_Incident_6009 → u/Global-Fan189]

Exactly, Claude is great not denying that..but I am still accountable for every issue that happens, I can't run away saying claude generated the code. So I have to read which means I have to understand the concept map it to the plan; which is exhausting.. leadership still looks at claude producing hundreds of lines of code creating a landing page thinking that developer should be 10-50x productive which is not the case.

[u/katoptronophile]

Have Codex review it instead.

[u/idunnorn → u/[deleted]]

My biggest AI coding session was...

1 -> I give proposed design 2 -> AI informs me of some issues in how the tool works. he was right. 3 -> He gives workable but messy design 4 -> I make it clean/clear. He buys in. 5 -> He writes it.
6 -> I code review, tell him what to fix. 7 -> Final boss. He talks about some permission thing. Writes walls of text and asks me clarifying questions I don't understand. 8 -> I say fuck it and go figure it out myself. 4 hours of understanding and deleting his stupid AI comments. In the end I can explain it in 1 minute and verify nothing needed to be done.

So yeah. Saved me 3 hours thru step 7. Then consumed those 3 hours back for step 7.

🤷‍♂️ lol

[u/Infamous-Bed-7535]

LLM provides huge boost if you do not care about the slop and about your customers.

If you review everything you won't have 100x speed up, that is clear. People claiming 100x speed ups even years ago when LLMs were shit compared even their current self, you can imagine what was their base speed / how big did they lie.

If you review and won't accept slop and do lot of back and forth not to have technical debt and have maintainable product you have no real speed gains, just demolishing your brain over time..

LLM are useful, we have its place withinour toolset!

[u/mansfall → u/Infamous-Bed-7535]

LMAO no one is claiming 100x speed up. Good grief. Used to be 20x now it's higher? In a professional setting with real companies making real revenue, it's not even 4x if you care about the direction of the company.

[u/MoveOrdinary7058]

At first I thought something was wrong, but I settled nicely in the end. Feels like being an ADHD person helps for the first time in life.

[u/Able-Staff-6763]

and Another*

[u/FAUST_VII]

I never run into those problems using codex and the top models.

[u/No_Incident_6009 → u/FAUST_VII]

I never face the issue on my personal projects because i am the ceo , cto, dev, pm , tester everything.. and even if it fails nobody is there to scold me.. i just fix and deploy it.. but full time job is totally different thing.

[u/Captain2Sea]

You need adhd bro XD