Don't code with claude code

(I was working on this when Geoffrey Litt published a trending article on the same topic, you should read it) https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/10/24/code-like-a-surgeon

Claude Code is really poorly named. It’s awesome, powerful, a game changer, but it’s most powerful use cases are not for writing production code.

Instead, be a surgeon, and use Claude Code as an assistant.

The Surgical Team

In the legendary book The Mythical Man Month, Fred Brooks introduces Mills’ the surgical team. The idea is simple, one master surgeon who does the core work (production code) supported by assistants (who do literally everything else). The reason for it is because:

• Production coders all need to communicate with each other (O(n^2) runtime), but their assistants don’t, so you scale up the assistants to keep n down.

• Bad programmers add too much tech debt, but that might be all you can hire.

• If a 0.5x programmer can improve a 10x programmer by 10%, that’s on net better than him contributing directly.

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