Yes
nowadays Claude has gotten so good that I have to admit it's a better programmer than myself
misja111 on Hacker News
In the thread “The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI”, replying to this comment
Helped: Excellent coding style, convention adherence, and spotting specification omissions.
Until half a year ago I used to agree with you, but nowadays Claude has gotten so good that I have to admit it's a better programmer than myself. Its coding style is excellent, it follows whatever conventions are used in the codebase, it has excellent suggestions for refactorings and it spots omissions or mistakes in the specifications I give it. …