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Comment by twa927

1 month ago

I don't see the AI capacity jump in the recent months at all. For me it's more the opposite, CC works worse than a few months ago. Keeps forgetting the rules from CLAUDE.md, hallucinates function calls, generates tons of over-verbose plans, generates overengineered code. Where I find it a clear net-positive is pure frontend code (HTML + Tailwind), it's spaghetti but since it's just visualization, it's OK.

> Where I find it a clear net-positive is pure frontend code (HTML + Tailwind), it's spaghetti but since it's just visualization, it's OK.

This makes it sound like we're back in the days of FrontPage/Dreamweaver WYSIWYG. Goodness.

  • Hmm, your comment gave me the idea that maybe we should invent "What You Describe Is What You Get|. To replace HTML+Tailwind spaghetti with prompts generating it.

Sad to hear this attitude towards front-end code. Front-ends are so often already miswritten and full of accessibility pitfalls and I feel like LLMs are gonna dramatically magnify this problem :(

Are you using Opus 4.5? Sounds more like Sonnet.

  • Yes I'm using Sonnet 4.5. Thanks for the tip, will try Opus 4.5, although costs might become an issue.

    • > although costs might become an issue.

      If you have a ChatGPT subscription, try Codex with GPT-5.2-High or 5.2-codex High? In my experience, while being much slower, it produces far better results than Opus and seems even more aggressively subsidized (more generous rate limits).