I just leave an instruction in CLAUDE.md to validate changes with Playwright. It automatically starts a dev server (wrote a little MCP server to do that), navigates to the page with the changes it just made, and validates that its changes worked. If there is anything unexpected, it self-corrects.
It's like working with a really great mid-level engineer.
What a time to be alive.
A US-based dev directing Claude Code has like 3x output.
So the biz is spending 125 + AI costs, but saving 250/hr.
An individual dev might feel like a superhuman compared to those not using Claude Code. Could even earn them a substantial promotion.
Either way, seems to net out.
I've been trying to figure this out, and I don't think it's malicious, but it's just a matter of incentives. Anthropic devs are certainly not paying retail prices for Claude usage, so their benchmark (or just intuition) of efficiency is probably much different than the average user. Without that hard constraint the incentive just isn't there for them to squeeze out a few more pennies, and it ends up way more expensive than stuff like Cline or Cursor.