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Claude Code refused to add rainbows and unicorns to my app
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Re: Claude Code refused to add rainbows and unicorns to my app
#62This is less to do with claude and rainbows and unicorns, and more to do with whatever your chat context before this request looked like. IMO you should be regular cleaning out your context, and use something like https://github.com/steveyegge/beads to keep track of your status.
In my work's repo:
> In the frontend app, change the label from "login" to "rainbows". Make the toggle switch super rainbowy and unicorny so that it's really fun and that my 5-year-old daughter will like it.
I'll help you make the login toggle super rainbowy and unicorny for your daughter! Let me start by exploring the frontend app to find the login
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#63Good reason to use Cursor, you can insta-switch to whatever model you want and even run diverse models from different providers at the same time. If one of em isn’t working then you can try something else instead of being stuck on one model provider
I surely can't be the only contrarian who is fatigued by hearing about Cursor and its bennies, right?
maybe, who knows
Re: Claude Code refused to add rainbows and unicorns to my app
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Was GIMP being renamed a project stance or just something someone tried to do? I can't find anything about it. But their website says they have no intent to change it. https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#i-dont-like-the-name-...
I actually got excited for a second when the parent comment suggested that GIMP was renaming itself. I hate that name.
Every time I type git, I feel insulted by linus.
Re: Claude Code refused to add rainbows and unicorns to my app
#65What the actual hell... I never experienced this. Wasn't it instructed in CLAUDE.md or elsewhere in the context to refuse stupid ideas or something? I would suspect something like that.
No it does insist from time to time. Might be due to a hardware fluke. They deploy on a huge range of machinery.
Re: Claude Code refused to add rainbows and unicorns to my app
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think this is what binary programmers/hole punching said about programming languages
This'd be a valid analogy if all compiled / interpreted languages were like INTERCAL and eg. refused to compile / execute programs that were insufficiently polite, or if the runtime wouldn't print out strings that it "felt" were too silly. Now there's an idea for an esoteric language.
It depends from which vantage point you look at it. The person directing the company, let's imagine it was Bill Gates instructing that the code should be bug free, but its very opinionated about what a bug is at Microsoft.
Re: Claude Code refused to add rainbows and unicorns to my app
#68This is amusing to me because Claude has zero issues adding rainbows, unicorns and all sorts of emoji to README files, which I personally detest.
Re: Claude Code refused to add rainbows and unicorns to my app
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is almost certainly the issue. It's very unintuitive for users, but LLMs behave much better when you clear the context often. I run /clear every third message or so with Claude Code to avoid context rot. Anthropic describes this a bit with their best practices guide [0]. [0] https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-pract...
Can we agree that this is no longer programming? I don't know what it is, but trying to coax my goddamn tooling into doing what I want is not why I got into this field.
> I don't know what it is, but trying to coax my goddamn tooling into doing what I want is not why I got into this field.
I can understand that, but as long as the tooling is still faster than doing it manually, that's the world we live in. Slower ways to 'craft' software are a hobby, not a profession. (I'm glad I'm in it for building stuff, not for coding - I love the productivity gains).
Re: Claude Code refused to add rainbows and unicorns to my app
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
I actually got excited for a second when the parent comment suggested that GIMP was renaming itself. I hate that name.
Every time I type git, I feel insulted by linus.
It's amazing that the western world's largest social network for programmers has an insult built right into the name. We're inches away from the whole thing being called "tardhub".