This is one reason I switched back to Claude after testing various alternatives a few months ago. Claude ended up writing much more elegant code.

Although I was surprised that I could get very Claude like results from Chinese models though by just telling it to make the code elegant.

Reminds me of the old days with art AI where you had to put "+good -bad" in the prompt because otherwise it would assume you just wanted random quality outputs, because it had been trained on random quality inputs...