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NoClaude · 16 Mar 2026

It always lacks any understanding of our problem area, 75% of the time it only works for a specific scenario (the prompted case)

jermaustin1 on Hacker News

75% of the time it only works for a specific scenario

In the thread “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Lacks understanding of problem area; only works for prompted case.

I've been tasked with code reviews of Claude chat bot written code (not Claude code that has RAG and can browse the file system). It always lacks any understanding of our problem area, 75% of the time it only works for a specific scenario (the prompted case), and almost 100% of the time, when I comment about this, I'm told to take it over and make it work... and to use Claude. …