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Not only it can but it does. Just as I was reading this claude implemented a drag&drop of images out of SumatraPDF. I asked: > implement dragging out images; if we initiate drag action and the element under cursor is an image, allow dragging out the image and dropping on other applications then it didn't quite work: I'm testing it by trying to drop on a web application that accepts dropped images from file system but it doesn't work for that Here's the result: https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/commit/58d9a4... It took me less than 15 mins, with testing. Now you tell me: 1. Can a farm worker do that? 2. Can you improve this code in a meaningful way? If you were doing a code review, what would you ask to be changed? 3. How long would it take you to type this code? Here's what I think: No. No. Much longer.

Fixing bugs is the goldilocks zone for ai. Especially if you have a test that the agent can use to test their fix. AI is not a junior developer, as some analogise, but Rain Man. Ultra autistic entity that can chew through way more logical conditions that you. As long as you can describe the bug well ai will likely fix it. Logs help. Let me give you specific example. Here's a fix made by claude to my SumatraPDF: https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/commit/a571c0... I have a crash reporting system that sends me crash information in text file: callstack of crashed thread, basic os info and logs of this execution. The way I (well, claude) fixed this bug is: I said "analyze crash report: <paste crash report>" and it does it in under a minute. Recently I've fixed at least 30 bugs with this process (you can view recent checkins). Those

Not to take away from your experience but to offer a counterpoint. I used claude code to port rust pdb parsing library to typescript. My SumatraPDF is a large C++ app and I wanted visibility into where does the size of functions / data go, layout of classes. So I wanted to build a tool to dump info out of a PDB. But I have been diagnosed with extreme case of Rustophobiatis so I just can't touch rust code. Hence, the port to typescript. With my assistance it did the work in an afternoon and did it well. The code worked. I ran it against large PDB from SumatraPDF and it matched the output of other tools. In a way porting from one language to another is extreme case of refactoring and Claude did it very well. I think that in general (your experience notwithstanding) Claude Caude is excellent at refactorings. Here are 3 refactorings from Suma