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1. physic+Py1[view] [source] 2026-01-15 10:17:45
>>samwil+(OP)
I have been trying Claude Code a lot this week. Two projects:

* A small statically generated Hugo website but with some clever linking/taxonomy stuff. This was a fairly self-contained project that is now 'finished' but wouldn't hvae taken me more than a few days to code up from scratch. * A scientific simulation package, to try and do a clean refresh of an existing one which i can point at for implementation details but which has some technical problems I would like to reduce/remove.

Claude code absolutely smashed the first one - no issues at all. With the second, no matter what I tried, it just made lots of mistakes, even when I just told it to copy the problematic parts and transpose them into the new structure. It basically got to a point where it wasn't correct and it didn't seem to be able to get out of a bit of a 'doom loop' and required manual intervention, no matter how much prompting and hints I gave it.

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2. underd+iz1[view] [source] 2026-01-15 10:21:49
>>physic+Py1
On Twitter people are saying GPT-5.2 is better. That's also what Cursor used in their testing. Maybe try it?
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3. physic+Yz1[view] [source] 2026-01-15 10:27:40
>>underd+iz1
I have Web access for ChatGPT through work, but not API access annoyingly.
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