From my experience it’s great at doing things that have been done 1000x before (which makes sense given the training data), but when it comes to building something novel it really struggles, especially if there’s 3rd party libraries involved that aren’t commonly used. So you end up spending a lot of time and money hand holding it through things that likely would have been quicker to do yourself.

What are you using to get Claude to write for you? I’ve been using it to write a full stack Go/javascript app but it needs a lot of handholding.