[Fergusonb]

I agree, claude is an impressive agent but it seems like it's impatient and trying to make its own thing, tries to make its own tests when I already have them, etc. Maybe better for a new project.

GPT 5 (at least with cline) reads whatever you give it, then laser targets the required changes.

With High, as long as I actually provided enough relevant context it usually one shots the solution and sometimes even finds things I left out.

The only downside for me is it's extremely slow, but I still use it on anything nuanced.

[tacone]

> agree, claude is an impressive agent but it seems like it's impatient and trying to make its own thing, tries to make its own tests when I already have them, etc. Maybe better for a new project.

Nope, Claude will deviate from it's own project as well.

Claude is brilliant but needs hard rules. You have to treat it and make it feel like the robot it really. Feed it a bit too much human prose in your instructions and it will start to behave like a teen.