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		hakanderyal 51 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex enginee... And it's very valid. Because otherwise you would ask Claude to trim a tree and it would go raze the whole forest and plant new seeds. This was the primary pain point last year, especially with Sonnet.

cmrdporcupine 51 days ago [–]

Whatever prompting OpenAI has with Codex / GPT 5.4 seems superior here then.

It's very surgical and careful around incremental refactoring, etc. but it also doesn't avoid responsibility.

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