Comment by orbifold
3 days ago
One other thing I've observed is that Claude fares much better in a well engineered pre-existing codebase. It adopts to most of the style and has plenty of "positive" examples to follow. It also benefits from the existing test infrastructure. It will still tend to go in infinite loops or introduce bugs and then oscillate between them, but I've found it to be scarily efficient at implement medium sized features in complicated codebases.
Yes, that too, but this particular project was an ancient C++ codebase with extremely tight coupling, manual memory management and very little abstraction.