Comment by macrolime

1 day ago

This is around what what Cursor was costing me with Claude 4 Opus before I switched to Claude Code. Sonnet works fine for some things, but for some projects it spews unusable garbage, unless the specification is so detailed that it's almost the implementation already.

> unless the specification is so detailed that it's almost the implementation already.

You mean… it’s almost exactly like working with interns and jr developers? ;)

  • Yeah, it's like an idiot savant intern who has memorized all the API docs in the world, but still somehow struggles to work independently.