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Reddit user suggests Claude AI's time estimates for complex tasks are accurate

A Reddit user speculates that Anthropic's Claude AI might be more accurate than it appears in its time estimations for complex tasks. The user suggests that while Claude can produce results quickly, the underlying code it generates is often bloated and overly complex, implying that the AI's initial estimates of "weeks or months" of work might actually be correct for producing high-quality, efficient code. AI

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Reddit user suggests Claude AI's time estimates for complex tasks are accurate

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  1. r/ClaudeAI TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/itigges22 ·

    What if Claude's proposed timeline's were right this whole time?

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>You know how Claude for the past few years always tells you that it will take &quot;weeks of work&quot; or even &quot;months of work&quot; when you propose an enormous idea, and then it seemingly creates that idea in hours? Well what if it was ac…