A trivial example: whenever CC suggests doing more than one thing in a planning mode, just have it focus on each task and subtask separately, bounding each one by a commit. Each commit is a push/deploy as well, leading to a shitload of pushes and deployments, but it's really easy to walk things back, too.
Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
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Re: Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
#12So yes, I have found that Claude is better at reviewing the proposal and the implementation for correctness than it is at implementing the proposal itself.
Re: Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
#13I have found that Claude Opus 4.6 is a better reviewer than it is an implementer. I switch off between Claude/Opus and Codex/GPT-5.4 doing reviews and implementations, and invariably Codex ends up having to do multiple rounds of reviews and requesting fixes before Claude finally gets it right (and then I review). When it is the other way around (Codex impl, Claude review), it's usually just one round of fixes after t…
Re: Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
#14(Being true to the HN guidelines, I’ve used the title exactly as seen on the GitHub issue) I was wondering if anyone else is also experiencing this? I have personally found that I have to add more and more CLAUDE.md guide rails, and my CLAUDE.md files have been exploding since around mid-March, to the point where I actually started looking for information online and for other people collaborating my personal observat…
I haven't noticed any changes but my stuff isn't that complex. People are saying they quantized Opus because they're training the next model. No idea if that's true... It's certainly impacting my decision to upgrade to Max though. I don't want to pay for Opus and get an inferior version.
Re: Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
#15(Being true to the HN guidelines, I’ve used the title exactly as seen on the GitHub issue) I was wondering if anyone else is also experiencing this? I have personally found that I have to add more and more CLAUDE.md guide rails, and my CLAUDE.md files have been exploding since around mid-March, to the point where I actually started looking for information online and for other people collaborating my personal observat…
What I've noticed is that whenever Claude says something like "the simplest fix is..." it's usually suggesting some horrible hack. And whenever I see that I go straight to the code it wants to write and challenge it.
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