I'm not sure a faster loop is helping. It may actually be the problem. I have taken to creating 'collaboration' and 'temp_code' folders that I am spending more and more time in. By the time I am actually ready to touch the real code I have often written and re-written the problem statement/plan and expanded it to several files and some test code. I tell the other devs at my company that I spend 90% of the tokens on understanding and clarifying the problem and let the last 10% generate an answer. If I don't do that then I get prototype code that won't survive a single feature change and likely has intentionally hidden bugs, or 'defensive' code as some like to call them (try, except, ignore is a common claude pattern). My favorite is when claude hits the unit tests and says 'that failure was there before we started so I can ignore it...'. To get it to write actually good code you have to have caged the problem to a space that the LLM can optimize without worry, but to do that you have to still do work to understand how to break the problem into pieces small enough that the right answer is the obvious one. At that point letting it take the syntax is just fine by me.

Maybe the right answer is to sometimes slow down, explore and think a little more instead of just letting it try something until it (eventually, sort of) works.