Yes
The Spark setup at work is now at a point where I do not miss Claude, like at all
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Helped: Solid harness, stable tools, and good online search capabilities.
Got in the way: Local setups had subtle incompatibilities between models and engines.
… Local setups often bring with them sutle incompatibilities between models, inference engines and agent systems that are not obvious from initial testing, but cause trouble on projects larger than a couple of files. The Spark setup at work is now at a point where I do not miss Claude, like at all. A big part of this is the harness and the tools available to the agent, most critically a good tool for searching online. …