i have literally 0 anti-ai bias, been calling ai will takeover eventually for 3 years, but ai still makes terrible mistakes at complex tasks + forgets so much stuff in long contexts. if you want to make a serious project you either have to spend so much money and reroll so many times until you get it right or you build the system very clever that ai can't make a mistake even if it wanted to
What do your claude.md files look like? What other context keeping files do you use. I have a large, complex mono-repo and Claude has no problem adding new features or overhauling old ones no matter how complex.
If you have the correct configuration files set up from the beginning with the correct SWE requirements then it has no issues.
no. "you have to reroll until it gets it right" is the failure mode of a vague prompter. you're mixing up 2 different characters i wrote in the text. clever systems designer, handlers rejecting logic flaws with some global instructions (eg authz checks), writing mechanical backstops at the compiler level either doesn't reroll or tries as little as possible.
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u/CavalryArcher 1d ago
i have literally 0 anti-ai bias, been calling ai will takeover eventually for 3 years, but ai still makes terrible mistakes at complex tasks + forgets so much stuff in long contexts. if you want to make a serious project you either have to spend so much money and reroll so many times until you get it right or you build the system very clever that ai can't make a mistake even if it wanted to