alt Hacker NewsClaude 3.5 was released 1 year ago. Current LLMs are not much better at coding than it. Sure they are more shiny and well polished, but not much better at all. I think it is time to curb our enthusiasm.
I almost always rewrite AI written functions in my code a few weeks later. Doesn't matter they have more context or better context, they still fail to write code easily understandable by humans.
Claude 3.5 was remarkably good at writing code. If Claude 3.7 and Claude 4 are just incremental improvements on that then even better!
I actually think they're a lot more than incremental. 3.7 introduced "thinking" mode and 4 doubled down on that and thinking/reasoning/whatever-you-want-to-call-it is particularly good at code challenges.
As always, if you're not getting great results out of coding LLMs it's likely you haven't spent several months iterating on your prompting techniques to figure out what works best for your style of development.