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Kuinox01/15/20261 replyview on HN

> My guess is that Claude is trained to bias towards making minimal edits to solve problems.

I don't have the same feeling. I find that claude tends to produce wayyyyy too much code to solve a problem, compared to other LLMs.


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ehnto01/16/2026

That has been my impression too, it takes particular guidance to get it to write concise code without too much architecture airmanship.