- Sources: primary, discussion
- Summary: The post proposes retyping generated code by hand rather than accepting a diff, as a deliberate check on comprehension.
- Comments: The thread splits between practitioners who report the ritual restores comprehension of their own codebase and those who call it a throughput tax. Several describe downgrading paid plans and reverting to chat-only use instead.
- Why it matters: The disagreement is about whether review of generated code is a reading task or a writing task, which decides how a team budgets time for it.
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