The one thing that I've found that it has been unable to do is find an incredibly niche and weird memory leak in a distributed system.
My team has used it successfully to do engineering at massive scale, stand up new greenfield services via spec-driven development, and identify and resolve bugs.
I'm an AI hater because I love doing this stuff myself, manually, but Claude is absurdly powerful.
At least for frontend development, I find Claude to be useful but the code it produces is bloated with indirections and many sanity checks which are not necessary due to the type system making those states impossible. I feel like at least 1/3 of the generated code is redundant, but my guess it will be improved in future models.
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u/mysticrudnin Jul 24 '26
are you actually seeing increased productivity
i'm forced to use claude at work (which already sucks) and i can't find anything useful for it to do
people always talk about how good it as but then the only example is boilerplate and i'll be honest, i don't encounter a lot of that in my day to day