Comment Re: I've had poor success with this strategy (Score 1) 90
Honestly, the code that Claude writes is better stylistically and better commented (sometimes to a fault) than 90% of the code I have seen from colleagues and direct reports over the past 30 years.
It also is a better sounding board for spitballing ideas than 90% of my colleagues. It takes some experience and savvy to challenge it at the right points, but ultimately, it has helped me find solutions (cloud infrastructure in particular) that I would not have thought of on my own, and I'm not sure my colleagues would have, either.
I don't get the folks who say it doesn't work well. It is incredible. 2-3 years ago, I would watch it code itself in circles, hallucinate, forget prior prompts, etc. But that hardly ever happens to me any more. And if it does, it's because we are in a particularly difficult problem space with little written documentation online.