Mixed
Opus 4.7 sometimes makes suboptimal design decisions, especially in terms of overcomplicating things, but I have not seen it produce an actual bug in smaller changes in a long while
arw0n on Hacker News
In the thread “I'm going back to writing code by hand”, replying to this comment
Helped: Reviewing PRs where 1-2 suggestions unequivocally improve the code base.
Got in the way: Making suboptimal design decisions, especially overcomplicating things.
… I would only do this in low stress situations due to the risk of producing new bugs or issues, and just lacking the time to properly update tests etc. Opus 4.7 sometimes makes suboptimal design decisions, especially in terms of overcomplicating things, but I have not seen it produce an actual bug in smaller changes in a long while. The other is using Agents as critical reviewers. …