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Same for me. My last try was with claude code on a fairly new and simple Angular 19 side project. Spew garbage code using the old angular stuff (without signals). Failed to reuse the code that was already here so needed refactor. The features I asked for were simple, so I clearly lost my time prompting + reading + refactoring the result. So I spent the credits and never used it again.

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So your inability to prompt, hint, provide context, setup guard rails for the ai to do what you want, is the fault of ai? Sorry to say you don’t know what you’re doing. This isn’t the fault of ai. This is your inability to learn.

Do you mean that for a dead simple frontend feature I had to provide context beyond my entire codebase, proper cherry picked angular 19 docs, lengthy explanations about what I want ?

Yeah no thanks I'll just take that time and code the feature myself, while you're still pulling out your hairs on "crafting" the perfect pRoMpT

If you have setup a cursor rules or claude file, then you would only add file context and a prompt.

I have a cursor rule file which details my project structure, tools, commands to build, test, etc. Adds some do's and don'ts. This was quite lengthy to do initially on existing projects, cursor is able to assist with generating the first take which i manually reviewed and revised.

Since then I just tag a couple of files, explain what i want, and switch to another worktree and work on another feature while the first is being done.

Claude and Gemini both look at the file structure and match it, naming, etc.

Ok, fair enough. I will try that kind of setup with a side project I have and give it a serious try. I'll time myself to see if I made fast progress.

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