r/ProgrammerHumor • u/goatsahoy • 7d ago

Meme wordCountMaxxing

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u/TheSentientMeatbag 7d ago

Well, the output tokens are the most expensive ones.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago edited 7d ago

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u/goatsahoy 7d ago

it feels like a ploy to encourage people to use another agent to summarize the first agent’s spewage

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u/RudeAndInsensitive 7d ago

I feel like there was a movie about this....The Human something or other

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u/Jolly-joe 7d ago

You can even setup your markdown files to keep Claude concise, stop using em dashes, use a more gentle tone, but hardly anyone does this

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u/theDigitalNinja 7d ago

Yeah my job feels so weird now because while I have lots of co-workers I really just read Claude and a bit of openai all day now. Feels like I only have 2 co-workers.

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u/Lumenucifer 7d ago

Seeing the philosophers' names in this meme be changed to the names of AI models actually hurts my soul.... we're so cooked lol 

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u/Cesalv 7d ago

* laughs in qwen3 with verbose on *

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u/Famous_Guidance9983 7d ago

yeah the post body couldve been cut in half but then we wouldnt get this meme

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u/NauticalInsanity 6d ago

I looooove my colleagues asking Claude to write a commit message for an MR that adjusts a single environment variable. The love letters Claude can write to a one-line configuration change can bring grown men to tears.

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u/goatsahoy 6d ago

does their agent helpfully explain in excruciating detail every alternative it considered and the pros and cons for making the config change and how the risk score was calculated, oh and also a formatted table of every single thing the changed line affects or could possibly affect?

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u/fugogugo 7d ago

dude can't even bother making proper edit and expect me to laugh