About how often Claude needs a human to step in on coding tasks.
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Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About how often Claude needs a human to step in on coding tasks.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
After having used Claude for a couple of months it's really nowhere close.
We are at the level of the original Waymo cars where they had to have a person behind the wheel ready to take the controls, just in case it inexplicably decided to drive off a bridge.
As Claude's safety driver I have to intervene in perhaps 25-50% of tasks. Some days I don't even open Claude because I'm working on a part of the codebase that has to be just so and I know Claude would mess it up.
The moat is real. I don't have any illusions that one day Claude will catch up but that's at least 5 years away.