I can't be the only one that feels schadenfreude when I see this type of thing. Maybe it's because I actually know how to program. Anyway, keep paying for your subscription, vibe coder.
Shall I implement it? No
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#232When a developer doesn't want to work on something, it's often because it's awful spaghetti code. Maybe these agents are suffering and need some kind words of encouragement
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#233Codex has always been better at following agents.md and prompts more, but I would say in the last 3 months both Claude Code got worse (freestyling like we see here) and Codex got EVEN more strict. 80% of the time I ask Claude Code a question, it kinda assumes I am asking because I disagree with something it said, then acts on a supposition. I've resorted to append things like "THIS IS JUST A QUESTION. DO NOT EDIT COD…
>I've resorted to append things like "THIS IS JUST A QUESTION. DO NOT EDIT CODE. DO NOT RUN COMMANDS". Which is ridiculous. Funny to read that, because for me it's not even new behavior. I have developed a tendency to add something like "(genuinely asking, do not take as a criticism)". I'm from a more confrontational culture, so I just assumed this was just corporate American tone framing criticism softly, and me com…
Appending "Good." before clarifying questions actually helps with that suprisingly well.
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#234I grieve for the era where deterministic and idempotent behavior was valued.
That's engineering. What we have today isn't engineering, it's grift, people hyping the grift, and people falling for it en masse.
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or the now-ubiquitous footer: "Store cookie? [Yes] [Ask me again]"
How would it know not to ask again if it can't store a cookie?
At least if this "Store cookies?" question is implicitly referencing EU regulations, those regulations don't require consent for cookies which are considered essential, including a cookie to store the response to the consent question (but certainly not advertising tracking cookies). So the respectful replacement for "Ask me again" is "Essential cookies only" (or some equivalent wording to "Essential" like "Required" or "Strictly necessary"). And yes, some sites do get this right.
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#237Its gotten so bad that Claude will pretend in 10 of 10 cases that task is done/on screenshot bug is fixed, it will even output screenshot in chat, and you can see the bug is not fixed pretty clear there. I consulted Claude chat and it admitted this as a major problem with Claude these days, and suggested that I should ask what are the coordinates of UI controls are on screenshot thus forcing it to look. So I did that…
I mean, I don't use CC itself, just Claude through Copilot IDE plugin for 'reasons'...
At at least there it's more honest than GPT, although at work especially it loves to decide not to use the built in tools and instead YOLO on the terminal but doesn't realize it's in powershell not a true nix terminal, and when it gets that right there's a 50/50 shot it can actually read the output (i.e. spirals repeatedly trying to run and read the output).
I have had some success with prompting along the lines of 'document unfinished items in the plan' at least...
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#238You have to stop thinking about it as a computer and think about it as a human.
If, in the context of cooperating together, you say "should I go ahead?" and they just say "no" with nothing else, most people would not interpret that as "don't go ahead". They would interpret that as an unusual break in the rhythm of work.
If you wanted them to not do it, you would say something more like "no no, wait, don't do it yet, I want to do this other thing first".
A plain "no" is not one of the expected answers, so when you encounter it, you're more likely to try to read between the lines rather than take it at face value. It might read more like sarcasm.
Now, if you encountered an LLM that did not understand sarcasm, would you see that as a bug or a feature?
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#240You have to stop thinking about it as a computer and think about it as a human. If, in the context of cooperating together, you say "should I go ahead?" and they just say "no" with nothing else, most people would not interpret that as "don't go ahead". They would interpret that as an unusual break in the rhythm of work. If you wanted them to not do it, you would say something more like "no no, wait, don't do it yet,…
> If, in the context of cooperating together, you say "should I go ahead?" and they just say "no" with nothing else, most people would not interpret that as "don't go ahead".
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