I agree, so obviously I direct it with more info and point it to code that I believe needs more of specific principles. But generally I would like Claude to produce more DRY code, it is great at reimplementing the same thing in five places instead of making a shared utility module.

I see, and I definitely agree with that last statement. It tends to rewrite stuff. I feel like it should pay me back 10,000 tokens each time it increases the API surface