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One of the most annoying quirks of LLMs for me is the insistence on, after being corrected, loudly noting what wasn't done. After getting it to change something stupid in code, it will leave a comment in the code boasting about how it doesn't do the stupid thing, which to future readers reads like an 'asbestos free!' label on a cereal box.
I have a contrarian take on this: if most people working on the codebase are using the same model, then these comments serve a very useful purpose: they tell the model's future self that despite its tendency towards this solution, it is incorrect and here's why. It encodes useful context right when the model needs it next to avoid making the same error. I imagine this style of commenting is partially responsible for…
“It never reimplements git — it shells out to the system git CLI and rebuilds commits with git commit-tree, reusing each commit's original tree so file contents are provably never changed.” Glad the LLM noted this - I was worried this would reimplement git
why can't anyone just do things themselves anymore? it's all LLM crap
It looks like the screenshot was an actual photo of someone's monitor. I'm left wondering why print screen wasn't utilized. And for some reason it really makes me not want to touch this project.
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Looking at the metadata it says it is a Gnome screenshot. What a pointless and incorrect non-sequitor. exiftool -a -u -g1 ~/Downloads/screenshot.png ---- ExifTool ---- ExifTool Version Number : 13.55 ---- System ---- File Name : screenshot.png Directory : XXX File Size : 1260 kB File Modification Date/Time : 2026:08:11 16:24:37-04:00 File Access Date/Time : 2026:08:11 16:24:41-04:00 File Inode Change Date/Time : 2026…
To be fair, it does really look like a photo of a monitor.
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One of the most annoying quirks of LLMs for me is the insistence on, after being corrected, loudly noting what wasn't done. After getting it to change something stupid in code, it will leave a comment in the code boasting about how it doesn't do the stupid thing, which to future readers reads like an 'asbestos free!' label on a cereal box.
I have a contrarian take on this: if most people working on the codebase are using the same model, then these comments serve a very useful purpose: they tell the model's future self that despite its tendency towards this solution, it is incorrect and here's why. It encodes useful context right when the model needs it next to avoid making the same error. I imagine this style of commenting is partially responsible for…
One way to clear some of the low-hanging slop is to just have a separate agent code reviewing and pruning any comments that don't stand on their own purely in the context of the diff, but it still doesn't catch it all.
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why can't anyone just do things themselves anymore? it's all LLM crap
A tool like this never sees the light of day without an LLM. Git is complicated and use case for this is rather niche.
Claude somehow wrote a bespoke one-off Python script to play back the songs straight out of the ROM. I give it the ROM and a hexadecimal address and it just plays it. Converts the data from the ROM into PCM audio samples and pipes them over SSH into termux on my phone where they are played back via SoX play.
Yes, Claude wrote a literal sound synthesizer so I could do this. Claude painstakingly tuned the goddamn synthesizer too, he tweaked it over and over again until the output sounded right based on annoyingly human feedback like "these notes are supposed to be in the background but they are too loud".
This tool turned a painstaking reverse engineering task into a nostalgic listening experience that brought literal tears to my eyes. I mapped out every single song in the game this way.
Without LLMs, none of this would ever have happened.
It looks like the screenshot was an actual photo of someone's monitor. I'm left wondering why print screen wasn't utilized. And for some reason it really makes me not want to touch this project.
I thought it was a semi-transparent window until I read this. The curvature makes that clear, wow!