Seeing some of the pictures where OP says "MOTHERFUCKER" in the prompts and how simplistic some of the questions provided are gives me a feeling that CC is being used incorrectly.
My experience with 4.6 has been that it gobbles up tokens like crazy but it's pretty smart otherwise. Even the latest LLMs need a lot of context to know what they're working on, which versions to target, access to some MCP like Context7 to get up to date documentations(especially for js/ts).
My non-tech friends have a tendency to talk to AI like a person and then complain about the quality of the answers and I always tell them: ask your question, with one or two follow-ups max then start a new conversation. Also, provide as much relevant context as possible to get the best answer, even if it seems obvious. I'd expect a SWE to already be aware of this stuff.
I've been able to find obscure edge cases thanks to Claude and I've also had it produce code that does the opposite of what I asked even with a clear prompt, but that's the nature of LLMs.
My experience with 4.6 has been that it gobbles up tokens like crazy but it's pretty smart otherwise. Even the latest LLMs need a lot of context to know what they're working on, which versions to target, access to some MCP like Context7 to get up to date documentations(especially for js/ts).
My non-tech friends have a tendency to talk to AI like a person and then complain about the quality of the answers and I always tell them: ask your question, with one or two follow-ups max then start a new conversation. Also, provide as much relevant context as possible to get the best answer, even if it seems obvious. I'd expect a SWE to already be aware of this stuff.
I've been able to find obscure edge cases thanks to Claude and I've also had it produce code that does the opposite of what I asked even with a clear prompt, but that's the nature of LLMs.