Comment by com2kid

> Are we at a stage where an LLM (assuming it doesn't find the solution on its own, which is ok) would come back to me and say, listen, I've tried your approach but I've run into this particular difficulty,

Not really. What you would do is ask the model to work through the implementation step by step with you, and you'd come across the problem together.

I've seen Claude Code run in endless circles before, consuming lots of tokens and money, bouncing back and forth between two incorrect approaches to a problem.

If you work with Claude though, it is super powerful. "Read these API docks and get a scaffolding set up, then write unit tests to ensure everything is installed correctly and the basic use case works, then ask me for further instructions."