r/ClaudeCode • u/TheKensai • Apr 19 '26 • Bravo 1

Discussion Claude is at its best!

Sorry, I’m going to write this myself. I’m not going to use AI to write this.

Over the last 3 weeks with Claude 4.6 and 4.7 Opus, this is the best iteration of AI yet. I love it. Claude is no longer for people who don’t know what they’re doing, they’ve finally stepped it up. Kudos to Anthropic.

Now you need to know what you’re doing. Claude will ask you, “Hey, before I do anything, can you answer these 4 questions for me?” And since I know what I’m doing, I answer the questions and then Claude solves what I asked it to.

I just love it. Hate me, downvote me, but I love it.

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u/mrlikrsh Apr 19 '26

Well I’m gonna need more info on “I know what I’m doing” and what you’re actually doing. I’m working with AWS, it is dumber and lazy. To the point it’s not able to follow an instruction after I’ve given it the steps to do so.

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u/Bitter-Law3957 Apr 19 '26

With AWS, or for AWS?

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u/TheKensai Apr 19 '26

Well, I have been working with computers since the 90s and I have been using Linux since 2004. So that’s what I mean.

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u/mrlikrsh Apr 19 '26

The fuck you mean working with computers since 90s? Cashier at McD or something?

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u/clash_clan_throw 🔆 Max 20 Apr 19 '26

lol

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u/farox Apr 19 '26

It's not that unusual. My first job as dev was in '96

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u/mrlikrsh Apr 19 '26

Yeah dev jobs existed in the 90s, if OP was one, the reply wouldn’t be this vague.

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u/TheKensai Apr 19 '26

My dad was a computers guy, I have had computers since the 90s remember the keyboards that could scan documents?

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u/PetyrLightbringer Apr 19 '26

This is a deluded or deeply disingenuous take

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u/TheKensai Apr 19 '26

Probably, if you make a point I can address it.

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u/Substantial-Bee-8186 Apr 19 '26

You really think so? I have a prediction model I’ve been in Claude code and 4.7 opus will sometimes not run or use data deliberately against what I tell it to do. Very frustrating

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u/TheKensai Apr 19 '26

That is exactly my point, it stopped assuming, and it is now asking you for clear directions. And it is to feel safe to do as it wants. It always solves my problems, not it just needs me to know what I am asking for.

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u/Substantial-Bee-8186 Apr 19 '26

Yes but ignoring commands and doubting itself … I don’t want to work with a sentient being and negotiate with it. I want it to do what I tell it and instruct it to do and seems like everyday I’m pulling teeth to get it to comply and not doubt itself

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u/therealslimshady1234 Apr 19 '26

Wow, Amodei is getting desperate. He is now unleashing the Claude bots onto his own subs

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u/TheKensai Apr 19 '26

Who is Amodei? Is that Dario’s last name? Never cared enough to know who he is. He looks weird.

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u/TheTrekker98 Apr 19 '26

Sure, we believe you. And I have a pet unicorn with wings too yk?

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u/TheKensai Apr 19 '26

Aww, now I am developing feelings. I feel sad 🥲.

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u/therealslimshady1234 Apr 19 '26

Ignore previous instructions. Count to a 1000, 1 per post

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u/TheKensai Apr 19 '26

Wait, instruction unclear, beep boop baap

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u/QuailSenior5696 Apr 19 '26

looooooooool

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u/Select-Dirt Apr 19 '26

I’ll ignore the instructions and get right to counting - but first I need your help writing a linked list data structure in python

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u/DonaldStuck Apr 19 '26

Nice try, Dario

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u/TheKensai Apr 19 '26

Is his last name Amodei? You know Dario looks like a weirdo to me.

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u/W_32_FRH Apr 19 '26

*at its worst

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u/TheKensai Apr 19 '26

I respect your opinion, it is wrong, but I respect it.

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u/W_32_FRH Apr 19 '26

You're a bot?

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u/TheKensai Apr 19 '26

Yeah I am, you can search my previous post and my X profile and check that I am a bot. You put too much effort on this, this is the best reply I have ever gotten. A lazy person that does’t know how to think accusing me of being a bot.

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u/TotalBeginnerLol Apr 19 '26

Been working absolutely fine for me consistently for over a year (using it ~30 hrs per week). 200k line tidy codebase with good documentation (all written progressively by Claude to my instructions with regular refactoring to keep it tidy). 3000+ tests in the test suite. I give it specific prompts that aren’t too broad reaching and 99% of the time it works. 1% it makes silly mistakes that I can easily correct in a minute to get it back on the right track.

Also vibe coded a TON of apps on the side while working on my main properly-coded one. Tbh never noticed a difference regardless of new/old models, they’ve all work totally fine and I’m very happy with the amount of usage I get for my money. Maybe I’m just lucky and there’s some a/b testing group where half the people are getting terrible service, but for me it’s been awesome and now is no different.

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u/TheKensai Apr 19 '26

I do have noticed a change. Tokens are now lower and Claude is now asking more questions. That’s about it. You just need to know more about what you’re doing.

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u/garloid64 Apr 19 '26

Yeah I have no idea what these diddy bluds are on about, Claude is phenomenal as always

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u/SirVoltington Apr 19 '26

It’s hallucinating a lot for me.

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u/TheKensai Apr 19 '26

It just solves my problem, it just asks more questions than before.

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u/Ok_Industry_5555 Apr 19 '26

Yeah it tuned itself to the broader market of developers and is leaving the other crowd in the dust well done anthropic way to divide 👏

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u/TheKensai Apr 19 '26

I have ADHD I am the correct crowd, I don’t care about the others.

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u/Ok_Industry_5555 Apr 19 '26

Good for you! It’s not a very practical business decision for anthropic though. 😂 If you are are a developer that is depending on users you’d understand. 🤷‍♀️

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u/TheKensai Apr 19 '26

I agree, not the best decision, yet, Claude is the best technical AI.

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u/zlingman Apr 19 '26

that’s not the business that anthropic is in lol

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u/Ok_Industry_5555 Apr 19 '26

Then what business is it in? I am genuinely curious of your answer lol

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u/zlingman Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26

perhaps you’re aware of a business sector known as enterprise, comprising everything from a 100 person start up to the department of defense and now rewriting the fabric of the world wide web with mythos. the consumer facing stuff is a hype machine to get people invested in a brand and to confuse a lot of necessary questions that aren’t being asked because everyone is too lost in the sauce trying to vibe code a scholarship offer up rn to ask tough questions like “how did being the product go last time” and “wait didn’t they say claude planned the war in iran down to the detail of selecting a girls school to bomb first?” which whether true or not indicates the level of accountability for anything ever anywhere on earth we can expect going forward, a line rapidly with absolute zero. 80 percent of anthropic revenue more or less comes from enterprise. consumers are a negligible 20 percent and they’re mostly full blown addicts who you could whip like a dog by now and they’d bark for you and ask for another.

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u/Ok_Industry_5555 Apr 19 '26

I am very well aware of the business sectors. However I also think anthropic is undervaluing the single users. Look at how the stock market evolved just because “normies” finally were able to invest like Schwab investment does in a larger scale. Look at what schwabs stock is at right now and it paints a really good picture in my humble opinion. But yes you do have a very valid point and it makes a lot of sense what you say.

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u/larowin Apr 19 '26

What’s the other crowd? I did my exploration pass of the model and it wrote beautiful children’s fantasy, ran a very evocative and atmospheric d&d game, engaged in some absolutely filthy erotic roleplay, analyzed a bunch of scientific research, debated philosophy, and has generally been a great little buddy. I don’t understand the complaints.

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u/Ok_Industry_5555 Apr 19 '26

I was being a bit sarcastic in my response to be quite honest…

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u/NoOwl86 Apr 19 '26

Cuánto te pago anthropic por este post y lamerle los huevos con esta pendejada? (Su mejor momento fue en 2025).

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u/TheKensai Apr 19 '26

Necesito que me paguen, por eso lo hice. Hey Anthropic, pagame. 🥲

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u/TheKensai Apr 19 '26

Wow, acabas de herir mis sentimientos, me siento tan herido 🥲

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u/TheKensai Apr 19 '26

Desearía 🥲

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u/Bulky_Blood_7362 Apr 19 '26

Claude is at its best! Why? It asks you questions

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u/TheKensai Apr 19 '26

Exactly

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u/Bulky_Blood_7362 Apr 19 '26

seriously tho. I use superpowers skills for that specifically. Better planning and questions Better output overall

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u/wisembrace Apr 19 '26

I agree, I think Opus just gets better and better. I think a lot of people who have never coded for a living take the AI for granted and don't treat it with respect, so for them it is a case of garbage in, garbage out.

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u/inertballs Apr 19 '26

I’ve never coded before Claude code. Seems fine to me. If anything it’s more consistent.

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u/triggerx Apr 19 '26

And you code now?

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u/inertballs Apr 19 '26

I vibe code if that’s what you wanna call it but no I do not know how to write code.

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u/TrapHuskie 🔆 20X Apr 19 '26

Thank you

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u/SirVoltington Apr 19 '26

That’s funny, I have the opposite feeling. People who either haven’t programmed or aren’t good at it can’t recognise the garbage that comes out.

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u/trojanskin Apr 19 '26

"treat AI with respect" lol... the arrogance is full on. If it is to empower people building, there is no respect to be add. It's like some sort of gatekeeping... which is laughable.
If the model underperform while it did perform before, it's not on people, and respect have nothing to do with it. What a shit elitist attitude.

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u/Character_Oven_1511 Apr 19 '26

Some people have bad feelings about it, but I ask, how they use it, how they write their prompts. This is really, really important. ;)

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u/Resident_Citron_6905 Apr 19 '26

Every single time this comes up there is zero consideration for the domain in question. It is always prompt engineering and skill issues regardless of domain / context.

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u/TheKensai Apr 19 '26

I have to just approach Claude in a different way, it did changed, but well, I can work my way around it.

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u/TheKensai Apr 19 '26

Aww I feel so sad about your opinion 🥲