[cipehr]

Am I the only one that doesn’t see the hype with Claude? I recently tried it, hit the usage limit, read around found tons of blogs and posts from devs saying Claude is the best code assistant LLM… so I purchased Claude pro… and I hate it. I have been asking it surface level questions about Apache spark (configuring the number of tasks retries, errors, error handling, etc.) and it hallucinated so much, so frequently. It reminds me of like ChatGPT 3…

What am I doing wrong or what am I missing? My experience has been so underwhelming I just don’t understand the hype for why people use Claude over something else.

Sorry I know there are many models out there, and Claude is probably better than 99% of them. Can someone help me understand the value of it over o1/o3? I honestly feel like I like 4o better.

/frustration-rant

[btucker]

It seems like you might be trying to use it like a search engine, which is a common mistake people make when first trying LLMs. LLMs are not like Google.

The key is to give it context so it can help you. For example, if you want it to help you with Spark configuration, give it the Spark docs. If you want it to help you write code, give it your codebase.

Tools like cursor and the like make this process very easy. You can also set up a local MCP server so the LLM can get the context and tools it needs on its own.

[cipehr]

Thank you very much for the ideas here, i will try the approach of giving it context. I havent got into cursor, since i use helix and intellij… i need to look into the MCP server thing

Thanks again!

[foretop_yardarm]

Giving examples of inputs and outputs can also help

[cipehr]

thank you, I will try this too. I feel like I didn't have to do this much work with other models like o1/o3/4o... but if it provide the return value I'm hearing from the hype around Claude I am willing to try.

[dimitri-vs]

Claude is exceptionally good at taking "here is two paragraphs of me rambling off about a feature I want in broken voice to text" and actually understanding what you want. It has really good prompt adherence but at the same time knows when to read between the lines.

[cipehr]

Awesome, thanks for the reassurance. I’ll stick with it and keep trying to improve my usage