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Have you used Claude Code?

Have you seen the benefit of the churn of 1000 PRs a day?

It’s only about 10 per engineer. I’m not at Anthropic and before 2026 I was regularly hitting 1400 commits / year on my GitHub. If agents made me 2x faster (they have, review is still slow; I currently have 40 PRs open) that’d be the same rate.

> 40 PRs open

Ah, so you've privatised the benefits and externalised the costs.

Alas, I am the product of my environment

Right, but why do things this fast to begin with, especially for a product that's already publicly available?

I don't want to use a product that shifts under me as I use it several times a day. I want a product that actually moves slowly and works very reliably.

As an end user: why would I care about how many hundreds of releases a month are being pushed if maybe 1% of them have features I care about?

Speed is not the product.

More code output isn't a metric of success per se. Goodhart's law.

Humans don't operate at AI speeds. We're making the car go from 0 to 5000 mph in 1 second and the drivers are turning to goo in the seat.

haha I do like that analogy.