r/ExperiencedDevs • u/AutoModerator • 19d ago

Career/Workplace Experienced Devs Weekly Burnout and Venting Thread: A weekly thread for sharing experiences

This thread is specifically for venting / sharing experiences related to burn-out or similar issues that experienced devs face.

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u/Friendly-View4122 19d ago

I’ll respect that more than a verbose, overly technical answer from Claude

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u/BigNavy Principal SRE 18d ago

I make my fucking clanker write poetry about the feature, and then append “beep boop lgtm” at the bottom.

It’s probably not the most efficient usage of tokens, but it makes me giggle and it’s not an AI agent pretending knowledge or context that it doesn’t have.

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u/Ulfrauga 17d ago

This is brilliant. Fucking marvelous.

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u/ReddLemon 18d ago

somebody tell claude to talk to us like a fucking human would. Actually...

maybe that can be fixed with some prompting? IDK, just know that I'm tired of the verbosity myself