Sometimes I wonder if people praising AI work on the same type of code as I do.

Just now, I was working on a bug report. I had Claude write the code. Perfect, CI is green, new tests, everything seems fine. Took me 5 minutes. Then looking closer, I can see that there may be a performance regression and that the code seems pretty verbose. I iterate on the prompt "of course, you're right, let me fix this". New code is even more verbose, lots of comments that shouldn't be there, the code is more intricate, it takes me some time to understand what's going on. Plus new test cases to review.

After a day of asynchronous iterations on this, I finally sit down to look at this problem. There was a one line fix that Claude couldn't find on its own.

I lost time, reviewer lost time, and if this had been shipped as is, the system would have been worse. I could go on and on because this happens daily. And the worst part is teammates submitting slop.