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the share of a change’s total cycle time that code generation itself used to consume before Claude Code, so (1-p) is the share consumed by review and everything else.
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That framing is worth making precise, because it is a structural claim, not a figure of speech. Let p be the share of a change’s total cycle time that code generation itself used to consume before Claude Code, so (1-p) is the share consumed by review and everything else. If generation alone speeds up by a factor g , total cycle time scales as (1-p) + p/g , and the achievable speed-up in total cycle time is
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That framing is worth making precise, because it is a structural claim, not a figure of speech. Let p be the share of a change’s total cycle time that code generation itself used to consume before Claude Code, so (1-p) is the share consumed by review and everything else. If generation alone speeds up by a factor g , total cycle time scales as (1-p) + p/g , and the achievable speed-up in total cycle time is
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- : the share of a change’s total cycle time that code generation itself used to consume before Claude Code, so (1-p) is the share consumed by review and everything else.