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Used Claude 4 for something at work (not much of a choice here and that team said they generate all their code). It's sycophantic af. Between "you're absolutely right" and it confidently making stuff up, I've wasted 20 minutes and an unknown number of tokens on it generating a non-functional unit test and then failing to solve the type errors and eslint errors.
There are some times it was faster to use, sure, but only because I don't have the time to learn the APIs myself due to having to deliver an entire feature in a week by myself (rest of the team doesn't know frontend) and other shitty high level management decisions.
At the end of the day, I learned nothing by using it, the tests pass but I have no clue if they test the right edge cases, and I guess I get to merge my code and never work on this project again.
This is the way.