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NoClaude · 23 Jun 2025

I have had a lot of success building small isolated features / projects, but have found Claude to be frustratingly inadequate for any non-trivial work

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Helped: Building small isolated features or projects.

Got in the way: Fixing a bug in an old, complex C++ codebase.

I have had a lot of success building small isolated features / projects, but have found Claude to be frustratingly inadequate for any non-trivial work. Ran it on an old and complex C++ codebase, and spent an hour unsuccessfully trying to coax it into fixing a bug. …