This very much aligns with my experience — I had a case yesterday where opus was trying to do something with a library, and it encountered a build error. Rather than fix the error, it decided to switch to another library. It then encountered another error and decided to switch back to the first library.
I don’t think I’ve encountered a case where I’ve just let the LLM churn for more than a few minutes and gotten a good result. If it doesn’t solve an issue on the first or second pass, it seems to rapidly start making things up, make totally unrelated changes claiming they’ll fix the issue, or trying the same thing over and over.
I don’t think I’ve encountered a case where I’ve just let the LLM churn for more than a few minutes and gotten a good result. If it doesn’t solve an issue on the first or second pass, it seems to rapidly start making things up, make totally unrelated changes claiming they’ll fix the issue, or trying the same thing over and over.