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MixedClaude · 15 Jan 2026

My experience with Claude (and other agents, but mostly Claude) is such a mixed bag

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In the thread “Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them”, replying to this comment

Helped: Minimal prompts sometimes produce neat PRs quickly.

Got in the way: Conflicting context causes wrong solutions and version confusion.

My experience with Claude (and other agents, but mostly Claude) is such a mixed bag. Sometimes it takes a minimal prompt and 20 minutes later produce a neat PR and all is good, sometimes it doesn't. …