alt Hacker NewsClaude is insanely good at grunt-work maintenance coding, which is a fairly formulaic exercise that mostly requires RTFM and simple code changes that look a lot likw the surrounding code. Designing new things from scratch based on human specs is something which Claude still struggles with.
The problem is that it often doesn't get it right the first time. You have to sort of have a conversation and it eventually gets there but if you have no idea what the destination should be like, you can't guide it there.