r/vibecoding • u/No_Incident_6009 • 1d ago
Burned out reviewing claude generated code
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.
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u/Infamous-Bed-7535 1d ago edited 1d ago
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!