Opus 4.6 is genuinely pretty decent at programming now if you give it a good backbone to build off of.

Soup from a Stone.

To an extent, yes. The more “broth base” I feed Claude, the better it does. If I just vaguely describe a program, I get a vague implementation of my description. If I have a big, feature rich example (or better, examples) of what I want the program to do, Claude can iterate until the program it make’s output actually matches the examples.