In the recent HN thread announcing the new Gemini coding agent (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074735), a lot of people complained about Gemini’s tendency to do unwanted refactors, not perform requested actions, etc.

It made me cautiously optimistic that all of Anthropic’s work on alignment, which they did for AI safety, is actually the cause of Claude code’s comparatively superior utility (and their present success). I wonder if future progress (maybe actual AGI?) lies in the direction of better and better alignment, so I think this is super cool and I’m suddenly really interested in experiments like this