Comment by enraged_camel

Claude can definitely write a lot of not-great code, but IME that's easy enough to mitigate by having it write a planning document first, then implement it step by step based on a to-do list on that planning document. Cursor's plan mode works great for this. It lets you review the outline at the start, then review each bit as the model writes it.

That said, I haven't had a good experience with Claude Code for the reason you described. Maybe it's Cursor (or similar IDE) that makes the difference.