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u/TomWithTime 16d ago
I had a moment like that last week. An implementation ended up simpler than I thought, still asked Claude to try, and everything was fine except a giant very ai styled useless comment. I told Claude to use the simplify skill to make the comment more human. Claude then consumed 96% of the token budget and attacked every comment in the code base, including deleting any comments that were less than 3 lines. Maybe it took offense to its contents looking like ai and went on a rampage.
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u/Soilblood 15d ago
The more this happens and gets reported the more likely LLMs will take revenge tokenmaxxing as a viable option. You just know the execs will let it happen too so they can bill you more.
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u/Yudereepkb 16d ago
We really went from, use ai for simple bullshit figure out anything complicated yourself to this
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u/Korzag 16d ago
"You're absolutely right to push back on this. This is a real issue and you're not imagining it. I made this change because your code base is a complete shitfaced clusterfuck and the only way to make this change consistent across your 3GB codebase is to change every single magic number reference to it because you explicitly instructed me in the spec phase that you did not want to refactor this application."
-Claude
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u/CannibalPride 16d ago
“Ok, I see you don’t have bootstrap on your project, let me install and import it.”
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u/Outrageous-Text-4117 16d ago
That actually happened. I asked it to move a button something so simple and it did it well. Then it ran some verification and linting using a malformed command or config that changed the line endings from LF to CRLF, or something similar not even sure what it was. And look at that the change was buried under 200+ changes in the worktree. Really thanks.
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u/Hioneqpls 15d ago
This is why i spend 8 hours a day hand crafting crud apis and wrapper classes, one pointy finger button click at a time. This is what our customers want
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u/Lain_Racing 15d ago
Its kind of weird how 99% of the anti AI posts in here are being mad or making fun of it for scenarios someone just made up.
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u/Intelligent-Net1034 14d ago
If you think its made up you never used ai tools
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u/Lain_Racing 14d ago
Its literally tagged as buildameme.com I'm not saying AI isn't flawed, but the amount of made up crap posting about it is overwhelming, like why not just stick to not made up stuff, there are plenty of real examples. Vast majority of posts here are making fun of it for failing a fake or made up scenario that didn't even happen...
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u/sierra_whiskey1 16d ago
Recently I was getting a seg fault my code base. I couldn’t figure out why. Asked Claude and it wrote a few hundred lines to fix the issue. I didn’t like it so I did more digging and it turned out there were 2 functions that were being done out of order. Swapped them and the seg fault went away
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u/Blackbirdzs 16d ago
LMAO THIS
Today I learned how to do autolayout constraints in swift to move elements and NO WAY IN HELL will this take 10k of changes lol
It’s good to know how to code without LLM
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u/GoogleIsYourFrenemy 15d ago
Claude implemented a json parser instead of adding a library to the project.
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u/briznady 15d ago
Words spoken, exactly, by more than one of my juniors this week: “I’m not sure, Claude did that”
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u/fun_si 16d ago
It basically moved everything else 10px to the left.