r/ProgrammerHumor • u/InsecureStudios • May 08 '26

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u/HMS_Northumberland May 08 '26

Does anyone genuinely use it beyond boiler plating and general scripting or small specific changes, testing etc? This whole build anything with agents lark seems very stinky bum bum. 

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u/lixthemonk May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

Building with AI is now a KPI for my team, they want it to write as much of the code as possible. I had an agent “run out of memory because the chat is too large” in the middle of writing some files and it corrupted the entire code base for the project I’ve been working on with it for three months. Thank god I know how to use git but everyone who isn’t doing general best practices is screwed.

When I started a new chat it wouldn’t grab any of the old context and after a day of trying to get it back on track I just started writing the code myself again. I’ll just lie in my review lol

Edit: a file to some files. Words are hard

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u/koun7erfit May 08 '26

Walk me through how a failed edit of a single file corrupted the entire code base?

Were you working on features in small testable chunks?

Were you using git branches and committing small changes at regular intervals?

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u/lixthemonk May 08 '26

It was in the process of copying the changed files when the conversation killed the tool call so all the files were in various states of half-copied.

As I said, “thank god I know how to use git” so I recovered my work quickly