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Claude Code accelerated codebase understanding, initial implementation, and debugging, but the real challenge was validating that AI-generated code matched existing architecture, reused shared components, and avoided consistency drift. A critical memory leak in a media gallery was only discovered through manual device testing under realistic conditions — not by AI — highlighting that production readiness still depends entirely on human engineering judgment. Key lessons: AI shifts the bottleneck from writing code to validating it, feature isolation reduces blast radius, and architectural decisions remain a human responsibility. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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