I've been using it to do this for 2 years now. And many people with me. The change you mention is one of is primarily one of Overton windows, of vibes.
I suspect this may have depended on the specific framework. I quite literally could not get Claude (in Cursor) to give me a basic Micronaut setup in a fresh workspace with essentially a "hello, world" API. I would guess that if you're using something like Python and FastAPI, it might have been an easier task or better represented in the data.
The difference that I observed in the Opus 4.5 era is that Claude could take a service framework it has never seen before (proprietary corp) and figure it out.
Very successful by just being careful and walking it forward.
Yes its about 2 years, August 2024 from git it looks like.
I got downvoted though, apparently you and me are liars, haha. Easier to believe that than admit that their take of "I adopted it exactly when it became viable, now it's good, and before that it was a waste of time" was wrong. They're the people who were loudly claiming here last summer it was useless, asking "show me anything useful that has been coded using LLMs". Come to think of it, it has now been a few months since I saw one of those. Used to be every other thread.