I also don't produce code that meets my standards by default. I learned to code by competing in programming competitions, so I had a tendency to test by pushing

I also don't produce code that meets my standards by default. I learned to code by competing in programming competitions, so I had a tendency to test by pushing and to write incomprehensible one-liners. Reading books helped me learn to write code worthy of a software engineer, it didn't come automatically. Similarly, Claude is capable of doing what I want it to in times when I'm specific enough about what I ask it for much faster than if I did it by hand. That said, Claude definitely does accelerate turning your codebase into mud if you let it handle all of its own thinking. I see this sentiment a lot on Hacker News and I really think it is similar to when new high level programming languages dropped and people were concerned about how un-optimized the compiled code was going to be.