Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary

Post by sroussey » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 1:27 AM UTC

enraged_camel wrote: post #159

maxbond wrote: post #156

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When I see people talking about Claude Code becoming "unusable" for them recently, I believe them, but I don't understand. It's a deeply flawed and buggy piece of software but it's very effective. One of the strangest things about AI to me is that everyone seems to have a radically different experience.

I use it through the desktop app, which has a lot of features I appreciate. Today it was implementing a feature. It came across a semi-related bug that wasn’t a stopper but should really be fixed before go live. Instead of tackling it itself or mentioning it at the final summary (where it becomes easy to miss), it triggered a modal inside the Claude app with a description of the issue and two choices: fix in another…

Post by sroussey » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 1:34 AM UTC

rtpg wrote: post #173

hathawsh wrote: post #167

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You hinted at an aspect I probably haven't considered enough: The code I'm working on already has many well-established, clean patterns and nearly all of Claude's work builds on those patterns. I would probably have a very different experience otherwise.

I legit think this is the biggest danger with velocity-focused usage of these tools. Good patterns are easy to use and (importantly!) work! So the 32nd usage of a good pattern will likely be smooth. The first (and maybe even second) usage of a gnarly, badly thought out pattern might work fine. But you're only a couple steps away from if statement soup. And in the world where your agent's life is built around "getting…

Post by WatchDog » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 2:30 AM UTC

Swizec wrote: post #155

hathawsh wrote: post #142

I'm either in a minority or a silent majority. Claude Code surpasses all my expectations. When it makes a mistake like over-editing, I explain the mistake, it fixes it, and I ask it to record what it learned in the relevant project-specific skills. It rarely makes that mistake again. When the skill file gets big, I ask Claude to clean and compact it. It does a great job. It doesn't really make sense economically for…

> I'm either in a minority or a silent majority. Claude Code surpasses all my expectations. I looked at some stats yesterday and was surprised to learn Cursor AI now writes 97% of my code at work. Mostly through cloud agents (watching it work is too distracting for me) My approach is very simple: Just Talk To It People way overthink this stuff. It works pretty good. Sharing .md files and hyperfocusing on various orch…

Post by ok_dad » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 3:02 AM UTC

sornaensis wrote: post #137

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This is a cool idea, can you write more about how your tools work or maybe short descriptions of a few of them? I’m interested in more rails for my bots.

I just made MCP servers that wrap the tools I need the agents to use, and give no-ask permissions to the specific tools the agents need in the agent definition. Both OpenCode and VsCode support this. I think in ClaudeCode you can do it with skills now. The other benefit is the MCP tool can mediate e.g. noisy build tool output, and reduce token usage by only showing errors or test failures, nothing else, or simply an…

Post by esalman » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 3:40 AM UTC

hathawsh wrote: post #167

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Are you writing code that gets reviewed by other people? Were code reviews hard in the past? Do your coworkers care about "code quality" (I mean this in scare quotes because that means different things to different people). Are you working more on operational stuff or on "long-running product" stuff? My personal headcanon: this tooling works well when built on simple patterns, and can handle complex work. This toolin…

You hinted at an aspect I probably haven't considered enough: The code I'm working on already has many well-established, clean patterns and nearly all of Claude's work builds on those patterns. I would probably have a very different experience otherwise.