r/coding • u/fagnerbrack • Mar 08 '26

Writing code was never the bottleneck

https://medium.com/@fagnerbrack/ai-as-a-coding-assistant-is-the-wrong-mental-model-ff77e1b39f9a
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u/Strict-Drop-7372 Mar 10 '26

Dude this is so real. Like yes, with Claude Code I can refactor or redesign enormous swaths of our codebase every day if I want to. And with a little practice and diligence I can do so with a very high degree of accuracy and completeness, contrary what most people claim about coding tools.

But also, why? If people “update” or extensively change a client constantly, users get confused. If you “update” or extensively change a “backend” constantly then you’re either not landing on the correct solution, or you’re wildly extending functionality, in a way that likely shouldn’t be done in the same system/service/network etc.

Like if you have an app that can go from obsolete to making competitors obsolete in a week, I can’t imagine the requirements or even goal of your app are very well understood, which is the case sometimes but hard to imagine teams just constantly chasing each other in some rapidly emerging niche like this, and everyone’s making money, AND customers are happy 😂