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I appreciate this sober take. If you hired a remote developer and the only thing you said to that person was “build a program that does this. Make no mistakes” would you expect that to be successful? Are you certain you would get what you wanted?

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Any competent developer there is going to push back and get the needed information out of you.

LLMs don't know when you're under-specifying the problem.

That’s interesting because that is one feature of Claude code that I like. Given an overly broad problem statement. It does go into a planning loop where it seeks clarifying questions. I think this probably has something more to do with the harness than the model, but you see what I mean. From a user perspective that distinction doesn’t really matter.

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