Hot take: Claude Code should make you slower before it makes you faster

A developer community discussion suggests that the primary metric for evaluating Claude Code should be the speed at which users can understand its changes, rather than how quickly it generates code. The argument is that while Claude Code might save time in writing code, it could lead to more time spent debugging or understanding unintended outcomes if the changes are not easily comprehensible. The preference is to spend more time understanding a change upfront to avoid longer debugging sessions later.