Claude Cook has surpassed the above-average chef.

Not in taste. Not in judgement. But in raw throughput.

This, more or less, is word-for-word parody of a post I saw recently about Claude Code. The idea being that Claude Code is now better than the above-average developer, because it can write more code.

I don't want a developer without taste or thoughtfulness any more than I want a chef without taste or thoughtfulness. Raw throughput leads to raw chicken. Raw chicken is bad.

Much like raw chicken, tasteless, throughput-heavy code often doesn't reveal the damage it's doing until much later.

Claude Code is good, great even; but it's still much more like a really good blender (or maybe a multi-function KitchenAid) than a replacement chef. Give good tools to a trained chef, and they'll give you excellent food faster. But let's not pretend the blender is the chef, or even close to one.

I want taste, I want judgement. It's only the throughput with taste and judgement that's worth measuring.

We strive to produce 2-Michelin star software at Dragon Drop, (3-star is a bit much for internal tools), and we'll use every tool available to build it; but always with taste and judgement. That's the whole game.

I'm reminded of the adage from Uncle Bob: "the only way to go fast is to go well."

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