Claude's 'this will take months' estimates may be right, given the code bloat it produces
itigges22 · reddit · 2026-11-08
A Redditor observes that Claude often claims a huge idea will take weeks or months, then builds it in hours—but given the bloat, cyclomatic complexity, biased tests, needless abstractions, and passive-aggressive diary comments in the generated code, maintaining it really does take months. So Claude's original estimate may have been correct all along.
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