I spent ~6hrs with Claude trying to fix a web worker bug in a small JS code base Claude made. In the end it failed and I ran out of credits. Claude kept wanting to rip out huge blocks of code and replace entire functions. We never got any closer to a solution. The Claude hype is unreal. My 'on the ground' experience has been vastly different.

Yes, you can get a project with claude to a state of unrecoverable garbage. But with a little experience you can learn what it's good at and this happens less and less.

That isn't my experience. My code and bug tracker are public, so I have the privilege of being able to paste URLs to tickets into Claude Code with the prompt "what the fuck?" and it usually comes up with something workable on its own.