I'm sure it is much the same as this under the hood though Anthropic has added many insanely useful features.
Nothing is perfect. Producing good code requires about the same effort as it did when I was running said team. It is possible to get complicated things working and find oneself in a mess where adding the next feature is really problematic. As I have learned to drive it, I have to do much less remediation and refactoring. That will never go away.
I cannot imagine what happened to poor kgeist. I have had Claude make choices I wouldn't and do some stupid stuff, never enough that I would even think about giving up on it. Almost always, it does a decent job and, for a most stuff, the amount of work it takes off of my brain is IMMENSE.
And, for good measure, it does a wonderful job of refactoring. Periodically, I have a session where I look at the code, decide how it could be better and instruct Claude. Huge amounts of complexity, done. "Change this data structure", done. It's amazingly cool.
And, just for fun, I opened it in a non-code archive directory. It was a junk drawer that I've been filling for thirty years. "What's in this directory?" "Read the old resumes and write a new one." "What are my children's names?" Also amazing.
And this is still early days. I am so happy.