Comment by user43928

Exactly. And without setting a /goal for the harness to loop it, it also did essentially this today after a few hours of work:

  I finished optimization A. Optimizations B and C that we planned look super promising. Shall we continue? 

  <Stop here> <Implement B>

  50 minutes ago 

It's also happy to write multiple paragraphs about different implementation options, where the ticket's acceptance criteria already rules out all but one.

The outputs are still often verbose and the language always is convoluted Claude-speak.

Even for typical day-to-day software engineering work, there is still much room for improvement.