I asked Claude Code to make a Slither Link puzzle game, providing it an extensive design doc about stuff like difficulty curve or UI but none about the basic game rules, and it failed to get puzzle generation to work (IIRC initially it wouldn’t even generate closed loops or something) and then got stuck trying to fix it, continually giving me new versions that never worked nor even looked like they got any closer to the goal. To be clear, that doesn’t meant that Claude Code can’t complete this particular task, it just means that I couldn’t get it to Just Work™.
I asked Claude Code to make a Slither Link puzzle game, providing it an extensive design doc about stuff like difficulty curve or UI but none about the basic game rules, and it failed to get puzzle generation to work (IIRC initially it wouldn’t even generate closed loops or something) and then got stuck trying to fix it, continually giving me new versions that never worked nor even looked like they got any closer to the goal. To be clear, that doesn’t meant that Claude Code can’t complete this particular task, it just means that I couldn’t get it to Just Work™.