Yeah, I have found the same. A lot of times it does get things right, but if it deviates man it can just drift hard.
For example, sometimes Claude just obsessively reads files and goes on massive tangents. Then when I stop it and ask, "why are you doing that?", it kindly apologizes and admits it shouldn't have gone on a tangent.
The token burn if I don't stop it would be quite high.
Granted, this might be because I'm not giving it optimal prompt/negative-prompt instructions though.
Yuck. I'm sure your compile times suck and code is not readable (my subjective opinion as well). There's nothing worse than a ten-mile long lambda in C++. To each there own, however. C++ is four languages in one after all. :)
Templates are really amazing, once you learn the patterns there's basically a template version and a runtime version of things (policy types, etc.). All of that is great.
Legibility and understanding are in my opinion the most important aspect of any programming language, so Orthodox C++ is superior for maintainable code.
Here's the truth: ALL of the "open" AI companies are fake UNLESS they open-source the whole damned thing. Let's get real here, politics or otherwise, unless the WHOLE THING is open-sourced (code, weights, data, etc) then it's built on future deception (pulling the rug from underneath).
For example, sometimes Claude just obsessively reads files and goes on massive tangents. Then when I stop it and ask, "why are you doing that?", it kindly apologizes and admits it shouldn't have gone on a tangent.
The token burn if I don't stop it would be quite high.
Granted, this might be because I'm not giving it optimal prompt/negative-prompt instructions though.