Mixed
where it collapsed, however, was when the codebase got really big, and when i started getting very opinionated about outcomes
bangaroo on Hacker News
roughly 60-70% success rate
In the thread “Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction?”, replying to this comment
Helped: Rapid prototyping and finding specific code areas via turbo-charged grep.
Got in the way: Refactoring and reuse in large codebases; context limits.
… early iteration was fast, particularly in the "mess around and find out what happens" phase of development. where it collapsed, however, was when the codebase got really big, and when i started getting very opinionated about outcomes. my claude.md file grew and grew and seemed to enforce less and less behavior, and claude became less and less likely to successfully refactor or reuse code. …