most new features are trivial (i just added a pcr wizard) because claude knows what particular patterns i use
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Helped: Claude recognizes deliberately chosen straightforward patterns in the codebase.
Got in the way: Occasional chaotic outputs suspected to be routing to a dumber model.
I'm watching because I'm particular about architecture. current project (company runs on it, its jira-lite + obsidian + benchling + a lab notebook, mendeley + a lims + a hardware kiosk that uploads scientific measurements directly to the notebook, everything running on cqrs and quill delta for operational transforms) is like ~100k loc and most new features are trivial (i just added a pcr wizard) because claude knows what particular patterns i use (and they are deliberately chosen to be more straightforward that conventional elixir/phoenix), but i do catch claude trying to do something chaotic from time to time. i suspect sometimes anthropic is routing me to a dumber model, because i can sense it happening, and if i keep going, it will make things really bad from an organizational standpoint, abd i …