Yes
Once I had shaped the idea clearly enough but in a very early state, I handed it back to Claude to finish and it worked flawlessly
maerch on Hacker News
70-80% of the way
In the thread “How Anthropic teams use Claude Code”, replying to this comment
Helped: Human shaped idea clearly before handing back to AI.
Got in the way: Could not make progress on major refactoring from scratch.
… I couldn’t make progress with Claude on a major refactoring from scratch, so I started implementing it myself. Once I had shaped the idea clearly enough but in a very early state, I handed it back to Claude to finish and it worked flawlessly, down to the last CHANGELOG entry, without any further input from me. I saw this as a form of extensive guardrails or prompting-by-example.