More fundamentally -- it creatively finds ways to use std::variant that I don't think any person would ever naturally conceive :)

And I think it's extremely fascinating, because I have absolutely no idea why. Claude can plow through my TypeScript and read my mind easy peasy, but C++? It's just a constant battle to convince it not to use std::variant.

Basically if there's any two branches of possibilities, I look forward to seeing a complicated proposal for std::variant.

And then I inevitably push back, and Claude gives the "You're right, I was overcomplicating it" and it does an if/else like you'd expect.

Maybe something about my particular repos cause that, but none of them use std::variant a single time. I also wonder if it's far more commonly used than I realize, that also occurs to me.