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Unless that was a complex constraint-satisfying compromisation problem I don't think that's different though? My point is that it didn't take so long to produce the code of this solution, it took the time to agree that it was the solution. Unless you just get everyone to agree 'whatever Claude says is the solution', having Claude produce it doesn't help!

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> I don't think that's different though?

It is different. You suggested that rakyll told Claude to simply implement a solution that her team already put the legwork into designing. I'm saying that it sounds like Claude produced the solution independently based on a description of the problem. Those two are completely different and if you can't see that, I'm not sure what to say.

> having Claude produce it doesn't help!

Sure. Also, it could be a coincidence that it came to the correct solution, we can't discount that possibility.

> Claude produced the solution independently based on a description of the problem

The description that came out of the year of project refinement that had already occurred?

No, that's not what I intended to suggest.

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