alt Hacker News> The very best LLM can answer is the answer you can expect from an online forum like Reddit or a book/paper published more than a year ago.
Hard disagree.
Claude is able to come up with solutions in very niche areas where there is little discussion on the web, because it takes steps to digest the source of (for instance) frameworks and libraries, and can then use/advise on lots of esoteric options, edge-cases and all sorts of stuff that doesn't get discussed on the open web.
I work in a niche where it is utterly hopeless at this, and everyone in the niche agrees: it produces things that look convincing to non-experts but that is fundamentally derivative dross.
It’s great at bread and butter stuff, but not at specialised ideation.
If you know differently, please share examples as maybe we can learn something here.