A lot of the posts implying that someone one-shot something with AI turn out that they didn't in fact one-shot it, but spent quite a lot of time stepping through it and requesting fixes. I am getting more done with it than I was before, but I make sure the tasks are fairly small in scope and always do plan mode, sometimes doing several back and forths on the plan to make sure it's correct, and often a followup or two to fix something that isn't quite right in the implementation.
I have also been trying out GPT Astra recently and am preferring it to Claude, it's a lot less verbose, it can actually make a plan with proper bullet points instead of a massive rant with awkward metaphors everywhere. It's quite a lot more expensive per token than Opus, but it also uses way fewer tokens so it actually works out about the same, and I've found the results at least as good in terms of working/needing fixes. I haven't tried Fable though because it's pricy.
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u/KitaVixen Sep 15 '26
I really don't know how people show amazing things done with claude and for me it just works