This lack of ability to truly intuit the business requirements and deep context requirements means it cannot make business related code changes
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Helped: Small context code changes unrelated to core business logic.
Got in the way: Making business-related code changes in complex codebases.
… It's certainly how actually using AI in earnest feels, I have been doing my best to get agents like Claude to work through problems in a complex codebase defined by enormous amounts of outside business logic. This lack of ability to truly intuit the business requirements and deep context requirements means it cannot make business related code changes. But it can help with very small context code changes, ie incidental complexity unrelated to the core role of a good developer, which is translating real world requirements into a system. …