Claude 3.7 is overrated. Massively

I’ve been using it heavily over the past few days, and honestly, I don’t understand the hype. It doesn’t feel like an upgrade it feels like dealing with an intern who’s too eager to prove themselves and ends up breaking things that were never a problem to begin with.

This version is constantly overstepping. You ask it to change one thing and it rewrites everything. It doesn’t care about linter rules, coding guidelines, or the style you’re working in. It just charges ahead like it knows better except it doesn’t. It ignores DRY, violates KISS, overthinks everything like it’s on a mission to rewrite your entire codebase instead of just helping out.

The worst part? You can’t control it. You try to steer it, you clarify your prompt, you even get super specific and it still takes off in a different direction. It’s frustrating. It’s not collaborative. It’s not even efficient. It’s just noise with confidence.

Claude 3.5 was far from perfect, but at least it stayed in its lane. It listened. It was responsive to small, focused tasks. You could iterate with it. You didn’t spend half your time undoing its “help.” With 3.7, I spent the whole day wrestling with it. By evening, I had to go back to 3.5 just to get anything done. And honestly, the contrast was huge. 3.5 just works. It respects structure. It understands intent. It doesn’t flood your code with nonsense.

I don’t know what happened here if 3.7 was just a bad roll or if they actually think this is better but from my perspective, it’s unusable in its current state.

We’re at a point where AI tools are supposed to make us faster, not waste our time trying to fix the things they broke. 3.7 is a perfect reminder that being smart isn’t enough. You need control, predictability, respect for constraints and 3.7 doesn’t bring any of that to the table.

Friendly reminder, especially to newcomers: tools like this will never replace actually learning how to code. If you don’t understand what’s happening under the hood, these tools will only take you so far. Eventually, they’ll lead you into a mess you won’t know how to get out of. Don’t skip the fundamentals. These tools are here to assist, not replace your brain.