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Quoting Boris Cherny

Anthropic's Boris Cherny says AI-generated production code needs a higher quality bar enforced with tests, fuzzers, and automated reviews.

In remarks quoted by Simon Willison, Anthropic's Boris Cherny argued that production code written by Claude should meet a higher quality bar than human-written code. He described guardrails at Anthropic including lint rules, extensive tests, Claude-driven end-to-end tests, daily Claude-powered fuzzers, and automated code and security reviews. He warned that without such controls AI-generated code can become hard to maintain.

Simon Willison · 5d agoAI tools & infra2

I'm going back to coding by hand

A developer abandoned six months of Claude-assisted work on a popular app, resuming hand coding after losing track of what AI-generated changes did.

In a Hacker News post, a developer of an app with a solid user base describes abandoning a six-month Claude-assisted rewrite because they no longer understood what the AI-generated code changed or broke. The author notes their workplace already writes code exclusively with LLMs and says returning to hand coding restored understanding and motivation. The post advises others feeling detached from their craft to stop using AI coding assistants for a few days.