A Reddit post on r/ClaudeAI Subreddit revealed how a seasoned C++ developer was humbled by Claude Opus 4 by fixing a bug that persisted for almost four years.
The bug stemmed from a large-scale architectural refactor involving around 60,000 lines of code, introducing an elusive edge-case failure related to shader usage.
Using the Claude Code with the Opus 4 model, the developer resolved the bug in about 30 prompts, uncovering a subtle architectural dependency that had previously gone unnoticed.
While the developer had tried other models like GPT-4.1 and Gemini 2.5 without success, Claude Opus 4 proved instrumental in diagnosing the underlying issue and providing actionable insights, indicating a milestone in how senior developers may collaborate with AI coding assistants.