I let my PM write code using Claude, here's what happened after 2 weeks

So this is either genius or terrible, and I'm still not sure which.

Context: I'm a dev at a 8-person startup. Our PM kept writing incredibly detailed feature specs like, scary detailed but then I'd be the bottleneck actually implementing them --> Classic problem

The Experiment: Two weeks ago, I set up a workflow where she could describe changes in plain English, and Claude would generate the actual code that fits our existing architecture. I still review and merge everything, but she's essentially """writing""" the features herself now.

What Actually Happened:

• Week 1: She shipped 3 small UI tweaks I had in my backlog for a month Quality was... good? Like 80% of what I would've written

• Week 2: She got confident and tried implementing a more complex filter feature. The code needed more edits, but the logic was sound. Took me 20 min to review vs 2 hours to build from scratch.

• Unexpected benefit: Her specs are now BETTER because she has to think through edge cases to describe them properly. It's like rubber duck debugging but productive.

• The weird part: I'm not sure if I'm automating myself out of relevance or just eliminating grunt work so I can focus on architecture. Probably both?

My take after 2 weeks:

This feels like when Claude first started writing decent code, you're suspicious at first, then you realize it's just a better workflow. I'm still the "engineer" reviewing everything, but the implementation bottleneck is gone.

The PM/designer-to-code pipeline has always been broken. If AI can fix that while keeping engineers in control of quality, that's probably the future whether we like it or not.

1. Anyone else experimenting with non-technical team members using Claude/AI to generate code?
2. Am I crazy for thinking this is sustainable, or is this just going to create a maintenance nightmare in 6 months?
3. For those using Claude for coding do you see this as augmenting developers or replacing certain types of dev work entirely?

Curious to hear if anyone else is pushing these boundaries or if I'm just setting myself up for technical debt hell