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		netdevphoenix 24 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I asked Claude Code to remove jQuery. It failed mi... Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. "Works on my machine" ain't it.

aurareturn 24 days ago [–]

Is it an extraordinary claim that Opus 4.6 or GPT 5.3 works amazing on existing code bases in my experience?

That's funny. I feel like it's the opposite. Claiming that Opus 4.6 or GPT 5.3 fails as soon as you point them to an existing code base, big or small, is a much more extraordinary claim.

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