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Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by calmworm »

lubujackson wrote: post #173
inerte wrote: post #144

Codex 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 feel like people are sleeping on Cursor, no idea why more devs don't talk about it. It has a great "Ask" mode, the debugging mode has recently gotten more powerful, and it's plan mode has started to look more like Claude Code's plans, when I test them head to head.

Cursor tends to bounce out of plan mode automatically and just start making changes (while still actually in plan mode). I also have to constantly remind it “YOU ARE IN PLAN MODE, do not write a plan yet, do not edit code”. It tends to write a full-on plan with one initial prompt instead of my preferred method of hashing out a full plan, details, etc… It definitely takes some heavy corralling and manual guardrails but I’ve had some success with it. Just keep very tight reins on your branches and be prepared to blow them away and start over on each one.

Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by tomhow »

hungryhobbit wrote: post #159
sid_talks wrote: post #38

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Please don't reply to a bad comment with another bad comment.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by frotaur »

torben-friis wrote: post #156
inerte wrote: post #144

Codex 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…

Personally defined as 'don't touch files' in the general claude.md, with the explanation that when this is present in the query, it means to not edit anything, just answer questions.

Worked pretty well up until now, when I include in the query, the model never ran around modifying things.

Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by reportgunner »

eslaught wrote: post #455
motoboi wrote: post #331

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I insist on the text generator nature of the thing. It’s just that we built harnesses to activate on certain sequences of text. Think of it as three people in a room. One (the director), says: you, with the red shirt, you are now a plane copilot. You, with the blue shirt, you are now the captain. You are about to take off from New York to Honolulu. Action. Red: Fuel checked, captain. Want me to start the engines? Blu…

For context I've been an AI skeptic and am trying as hard as I can to continue to be. I honestly think we've moved the goalposts. I'm saying this because, for the longest time, I thought that the chasm that AI couldn't cross was generality. By which I mean that you'd train a system, and it would work in that specific setting, and then you'd tweak just about anything at all, and it would fall over. Basically no AI tec…

> And I've seen Claude identify data races that have sat in our code base for nearly a decade

how do you know that claude isn't just a very fast monkey with a very fast typewriter that throws things at you until one of them is true ?

Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by dwedge »

exceptione wrote: post #492
dwedge wrote: post #479

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First time I used Claude I asked it to look at the current repo and just tell me where the database connection string was defined. It added 100 lines of code. I asked it to undo that and it deleted 1000 lines and 2 files

Would `git reset --hard` have worked to in your case? I guess you want to have each babystep in a git commit, in the end you could do a `git rebase -i` if needed.

Without git I would have been screwed. AI doesn't commit anything, I do when I'm satisfied

Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by windward »

aidos wrote: post #500
exceptione wrote: post #492

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would `git reset --hard` have worked to in your case? I guess you want to have each babystep in a git commit, in the end you could do a `git rebase -i` if needed.

One annoying thing about that flow is that when you change the world outside the model it breaks its assumptions and it loses its way faster (in my experience).

And accuses you of being a linter

Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by iainmck29 »

inerte wrote: post #144

Codex 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 find this thread surprising honestly. Claude Code is my daily driver and I consider myself a real power user. If you have your commands/agents/skills set up correctly you should never be running into these issues

Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by windward »

ddoolin wrote: post #169
torben-friis wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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…

Same here. I quickly learned that if you merely ask questions about it's understanding or plans, it starts looking for alternatives because my questioning is interpreted as rejection or criticism, rather than just taking the question at face value. So I often (not always) have to caveat questions like that too. It's really been like that since before Claude Code or Codex even rolled around. It's just strange because…

Yeah, numerous times I've replied to a comment online, to add supporting context, and it's been interpreted as a retort. So now I prefix them with 'Yeah, '.
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