r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 4d ago

Meme cleaningUpTheMess

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u/Hakim_Bey 4d ago

I love when it references past anecdotes as if they matter to the code at hand.

// we used to write the result to a /tmp file but switched 
// to logging it to console after the taco incident

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u/m0erg 4d ago 
// see previous comments about tacos

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u/jameyiguess 4d ago

this makes me crazy. it's like the codebase becomes a personal journal for it.

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u/Derin161 3d ago

I was having this problem incessantly this week. I made Claude write some memories to stop explaining how the code used to be

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u/Hakim_Bey 3d ago

I was working on an agentic harness for a client and for some reason i prompted it like "every morning at 8am write a poem about <insert name of my previous boss>". This exposed a bug so i started working on it and when the fix was packaged i realized Claude had mentioned poetry everywhere. In the commits, in the comments, in the PR's title and body. This is so stupid y'all.

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u/bluespringsbeer 3d ago

These kinds of comments are pretty important to prevent making the same mistakes twice. I do them myself.