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Sure. How much the language or features change is also important. For example Claude can build entire iPhone apps in Swift but you bet they’re going to be full of warnings about things that are illegal now and you bet if there’s any concurrency stuff it’s going to be a wild mix of everything async that ever existed in Swift. It makes sense too because LLMs are trained on code that’s, on average, outdated.

But what it’s good at and what it’s not good at is just part of what you need to know when using AI, just like with any other tool. I have projects too where it can at best replace google, so I don’t try to make it implement those by itself.