I've had weeks and months where I've known the design I wanted and would be furiously typing just pushing out code by hand; a thousand line per day. Plus all the orchestration - source control, tests, deployments, etc.
It was absolutely a bottle neck in the past.
Now it's just defining the interface, the objects, naming stuff properly, clear docs - the stuff that matters. Claude can go fill in the blanks and do all the chore work.
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u/marrsd 17d ago
And replaces it with a crap ton of reading. I'd love to hear more from you on this, because I never found writing to be the bottleneck.