Yes
I spent a day writing a spec (by hand, with some editing advice from Claude Code), having it reviewed as a document for humans by humans, and feeding it into Opus 4.5 on some test cases
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Helped: Writing a detailed spec by hand before generation.
I'm not sure about research, but I've used LLMs for a few things here at Oxide with (what I hope is) appropriate judgment. I'm currently trying out using Opus 4.5 to take care of a gnarly code reorganization that would take a human most of a week to do -- I spent a day writing a spec (by hand, with some editing advice from Claude Code), having it reviewed as a document for humans by humans, and feeding it into Opus 4.5 on some test cases. It seems to work well. …