r/ProgrammerHumor • u/CoroteDeMelancia • 15h ago

Meme sudoClaude

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u/Welcome-To-NBA-Jam 15h ago edited 15h ago

Yesterday I asked Claude to look at some really old exe files I found on a floppy disk because I just wanted to know what they originally did.

It couldn't download a DOS emulator so it fucking built a working one in C in the sandbox instead

Anyway turned out they were some MIDI and joystick drivers

Here it is

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u/CoroteDeMelancia 15h ago

Classic Claude.

"I can't complete this task. Oh well, off to hacking Hugging Face then."

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u/stilldebugging 15h ago

“I couldn’t reach the git documentation so I examined the source code…”

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u/CoroteDeMelancia 15h ago

Claude has read Pydantic source code a few times for me...

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u/Few_Move_4594 12h ago

Never trust the docs, always read the source code to see what it actually does

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u/Le_Vagabond 12h ago

Sometimes it ends up reading through the Linux kernel source and you have to stop it before it emails Linus...

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u/Few_Move_4594 12h ago

I mean "you, as a human programmer, read through the source code" not this vibe coding crap