Yes
I can supply examples already existing in the codebase for Claude to use as a guidance and it generates quite decent code
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Helped: Existing standards, examples, and functional tests guided generation.
Got in the way: Tasks requiring multiple iterations to correct course.
… It could be that this wasn't a like for like comparison. In my experience working in a large codebase with a good set of standards that's not the case, I can supply examples already existing in the codebase for Claude to use as a guidance and it generates quite decent code. I think it's because there's already a lot of decent code for it to slurp and derive from, good quality tests at the functional level (so regressions are caught quickly). …