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However much you're comfortable sharing! Obviously ideal would be the full source for the "overly complicated" solution, but naturally that's a no go, so even just more words than a two word phrase "overly complicated". Was it complicated because it used 17 classes with no inheritance and 5 would have done it? Was it overly complicated because it didn't use functions and so has the same logic implemented in 5 different places?

I'm not asking you, generically, about what bad code do LLMs produce. It sounds like you used Claude Code in a specific situation and found the generated code lacking. I'm not questioning that it happened to you, I'm curious in what ways it was bad for your specific situation more specifically than "overly complicated". How was it overly complicated?

Even if you can't answer that, maybe you could help me reword the phrasing of my original comment so it's less perplexing?





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