Yes
Claude did it correctly in about 5 minutes, and then I spent another hour or two just tweaking and exploring alternate options
adamtaylor_13 on Hacker News
about 5 minutes
In the thread “OpenAI Is a Bad Business”, replying to this comment
Helped: Senior engineer defined clear output and trade-offs for complex recursive function.
… As a senior engineer, I knew the output I wanted and understood the trade offs, but I didn’t want to spend 3 whole days trying to figure out how to build the recursive function myself. Claude did it correctly in about 5 minutes, and then I spent another hour or two just tweaking and exploring alternate options. I think it also goes without saying that I could not handle this to a junior engineer. …