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Wait I’ve found it very good at debugging. It iteratively states a hypothesis, tries things, and reacts from what it sees.

It thinks of things that I don’t think of right away. It tries weird approaches that are frequently wrong but almost always yield some information and are sometimes spot on.

And sometimes there’s some annoying thing that having Claude bang its head against for $1.25 in API calls is slower than I would be but I can spend my time and emotional bandwidth elsewhere.



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