It’s like the google claim. There was a years worth of work up front, but AI took the typing from a few days to a day.

> ronacher

I think he’s soured a bit on the 10x claim echoing many of the quality concerns expressed by others in this thread: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/agent-psychosis/

> Things have changed drastically now, engineers with these tools(like claude code) have become unstoppable

I’ve spent the last week unwinding my coworkers slop who said the same thing.

Generating code was always cheap. That’s part of the reason this tech has to be forced on teams. Similar to the move to cloud, it’s the kind of cost that’s only gonna show up later - faster than the cloud move, I think. Though, in some cases it will be the correct choice.

The corollary here is there’s 2 cases here:

1. You know exactly what the code should look like ahead of time. Agents are handy here, but this is rare and takes no time at all as is

2. You don’t know exactly what it should be. Building the mental model by hand is faster than working backwards from finished work. Agents help with speeding up your knowledge here, but having them build the model is not good

Code review is and always was the bottle neck. You are doing code review when you write code.