It is moving so fast that your experience with older models is irrelevant today. Sorry.

Claude Code, Fable 5, xhigh reasoning, allow it to run the full CI, end to end and benchmark, it will not make silly mistakes (or only occasionally). Also, be able to state what you desire. Have any docs or materials in the same directory so the model can reference it. For even better results: turn on speech recognition and braindump what you know about the system, its goals, its context, history anything relevant, any gotchas you'd explain to a new employee or intern. Talk for 5-10 minutes. This is optional, "make it faster" can already get a large part of the job done.

And if it doesn't work well, describe what you dislike in its solution and tell it. Even just one extra iteration can make things work.

(I guess GPT-5.6 can be similarly good, I use Claude)

I feel like some people are emotionally invested in it not working and subconsciously sabotage their own effective use of the tool.

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qsort 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm not saying I don't get any use out of them, fwiw. In a lot of ways they write perfectly fine code, I'm just saying without some guidance at the macro-level they lose the forest for the trees, that's all.

	▲	bonoboTP 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, definitely. It's too happy to just go and diligently work based on too little information, instead of asking questions first. And it makes many people think that they don't have to specify what they actually want, and the AI will mindread them and do what they want without being given access to docs and tools and context info that's crucial to know and they would intuitively know to hand over to a human collaborator but with AI they think they don't have to.