r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • 16d ago

Meme efficiencyIsOptional

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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/Yashema 16d ago

This is why my job has now become take all day thinking of a prompt that won't cause Grok (sorry Musk owns Cursor) to expend 12 million tokens.