Comment by ldeian

> Sometimes it comes up with a better approach than I had thought of. Then I change the API so that its code works.

“Sometimes” being a very important qualifier to that statement.

Claude 4 naturally doesn’t write code with any kind of long term maintenance in-mind, especially if it’s trying to make things look like what the less experienced developers wrote in the same repo.

Please don’t assume just because it looks smart that it is. That will bite you hard.

Even with well-intentional rules, terrible things happen. It took me weeks to see some of it.