alt Hacker NewsPurely anecdotally the one persistent issue I have with LLMs writing code is that they are absolutely paranoid and add a load of indirection and defensive crap and even if you prompt to avoid that it will often require manual steering to remove the cruft.
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Fallbacks and backward compatibility are killing me :) So many code paths that just don't fail predictably.
recent gpts are horrendous for this, whereas recent claudes have a tic where they incessantly add useless comments referring to previous changes and will use multiple single-line comments instead of a standard multi-line docblock.
I have not noticed this with Opus 4.6+. The result is usually not too far from what I would have written myself.
I tell it to avoid belts and suspenders, don't leave dysfunctional code in, and fail loud. Seems to change that behavior.
https://github.com/EspoTek/.claude/blob/master/CLAUDE.md
Stick the "Never suppress errors" section into your Claude.md, this will never happen again (works for me with Python/Flask, ymmv for other languages).