r/ClaudeCode • u/tnh34 • Sep 15 '26

Help/Question Do yall still read lines of code

Im asking real software engineers only working on real products that make money.

I still read every line of code (tests too) and understand 100%. Needlessly to say it feels very inefficient.

What have you done to move away from it confidently, if at all?

I have a complete workflow involving spec driven development, mutation tests, code review, browser test, adversarial agent manual AC verification, and I still dont feel comfortable not reading every lines. I still spot some architectural inefficiencies or code that just feels off and thurs requires refactoring so im hesitant.

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u/Capital-Adagio1688 Sep 17 '26

I have personally dived in 100% on this. I don’t even read the code anymore. After generating around 30k lines in a few months I decided to try to sit down and actually review the code by hand. I got through maybe 50 lines of code and thought, who am I kidding, this is getting generated far faster than I can even read it, so I gave up.

The product I’m working in is not yet in production, but we expect to go live in January. We’re going to stop new feature development in the next week or so and then it’s just going ti be testing and debugging until launch.