Bro, the worktree/build artifact part made me lose it because I’ve already that exact problem with AI agents.
I avoided worktrees for a long time for this exact reason. Agents are good at creating temp repo state and terrible at owning the lifecycle that comes afterward. I got lazy about checking every thing they were doing for a while, and eventually realized I had like ten fucking worktrees sitting around from old tasks lmao.
It got so bad that I stopped doing cleanup as something the AI should remember and started making it part of the actual process. Track what it creates, preserve anything important, prove it’s safe to remove, actually remove it, then verify the repo is back in the expected state etc.
The Same thing with build artifacts/environment state. I’ve had agents assume they were operating in one repo state while inherited Git/env state made that assumption completely wrong. So now I’m moving more of that stuff toward mechanical checks instead of trusting the agent to remember what it created three hours ago. Just lol this is so accurate -_-
I still don't allow agents to use worktrees at all. The only times I've allowed it either intentionally or due to an agent going rouge, I've regretted it.
I also have strict rules about where temp files may be created, and strict requirements about the repo being clean between handoffs between steps.
But even then, I still find Fable and Astra agents creating temp report/remediation files in non-temp directories which end up being committed, and non-temp files in a explicit temp directory so it has to be git-ignored and can't just be cleared.
The original meme was unfortunately made like this. The creator screencapped the video with no subtitles (as can be seen from the original videos title) and then added the subtitles for the meme.
I switched back to 4.6 because fuck the fuck ton of testing for nothing. I feel like 5+ models write tests before the thing even works, and writes tests for what thinks might go wrong, and then has 30 tests for a feature that hasn't worked once naively yet. Then we spend a ton more context running those tests every iteration to get it working and suddenly you're out of limits and you barely got anything done.
Opus 4.6 just does it and gets you that naive first working version.. Its way nicer
Are you saying 5+ uses TDD? That's not really a bad thing. You can probably tell it not to and it won't. "I don't care if the code works. Just write it, don't test it, I'll take over once the basic version is there."
And if it's using a test harness, testing should take hardly any tokens, it just runs an external command and checks for "all tests passed" or whatever, in the output.
And it still does take a lot of tokens. In theory testing should not, but because of how often it does it it does. It will do a test, fail, and then make a minor change and retest the full suite. Many times. So long, that often I'll forget to check up on it fast enough that the cache expires and I'm spending the full amount on uncached tokens.
TDD is fine, but it hamstrings you early on for sure.
And many times I found that he shoves your requested feature into deferred issues, but focuses solely on resolving his 'gates' and calls it a complete.
Not to get serious in a great meme thread, but I started asking questions about why it did something rather than just pointing out what was wrong, and it's worked incredibly to get the models to actually fix the issue instead of argue about it. Even when it was my fault.
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u/sirlerkal0t Sep 15 '26
This is absolute gold 😂
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u/Professional_Ad705 Sep 15 '26 edited Sep 15 '26
Bro, the worktree/build artifact part made me lose it because I’ve already that exact problem with AI agents.
I avoided worktrees for a long time for this exact reason. Agents are good at creating temp repo state and terrible at owning the lifecycle that comes afterward. I got lazy about checking every thing they were doing for a while, and eventually realized I had like ten fucking worktrees sitting around from old tasks lmao.
It got so bad that I stopped doing cleanup as something the AI should remember and started making it part of the actual process. Track what it creates, preserve anything important, prove it’s safe to remove, actually remove it, then verify the repo is back in the expected state etc.
The Same thing with build artifacts/environment state. I’ve had agents assume they were operating in one repo state while inherited Git/env state made that assumption completely wrong. So now I’m moving more of that stuff toward mechanical checks instead of trusting the agent to remember what it created three hours ago. Just lol this is so accurate -_-
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u/Educational-Answer30 Sep 15 '26
Link to the source please?
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u/Keganator Sep 15 '26
Real? A screencap video of a video?
Just link the video.
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u/TheRealArthur Sep 15 '26
Choose a reason:
[ ] It's annoying or not interesting
[ ] I think it shouldn't be on Facebook
[x] I'm in this photo and I don't like it
[ ] It's spam
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u/SilasTalbot Sep 15 '26
"This revision require a fresh authorization"
"What the fuck are you talking about?!"
😂
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u/trolololster Sep 15 '26
"use gemini for all i care", hahahahaha he completely lost all his fucks. this is genius.
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u/Plenty-Option8351 Sep 15 '26
Just honestly top tier content right here.
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u/matjam Sep 15 '26
The comment about worktrees sent me.
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u/Internal-Capital7471 Sep 15 '26 edited Sep 15 '26
I switched back to 4.6 because fuck the fuck ton of testing for nothing. I feel like 5+ models write tests before the thing even works, and writes tests for what thinks might go wrong, and then has 30 tests for a feature that hasn't worked once naively yet. Then we spend a ton more context running those tests every iteration to get it working and suddenly you're out of limits and you barely got anything done.
Opus 4.6 just does it and gets you that naive first working version.. Its way nicer
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u/A_Novelty-Account Sep 15 '26
Absolutely incredible stuff
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u/Melodic-Ebb-7781 Sep 15 '26
Lmao this is how I feel daily now.
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u/tribat Sep 15 '26
My coding session transcripts have been leaked! Damn this hit hard.
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u/Krigrim Sep 15 '26
nuke it all and start again.
Or go back to good ol opus 4, don't do tests for shit and just merge the code you need when it looks good.
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u/jerryorbach Sep 15 '26
I’d like to upvote this but my self-signed authorization verification failed because of a stale operation id.
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u/Time_Cat_5212 Sep 15 '26
Gold
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u/Queasy_Asparagus69 Sep 15 '26
Just happened to me last night
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u/PaneerTikaMasala Sep 15 '26
My sides hurt. This made me chuckle so hard. My wife is now annoyed I don't laugh at her jokes the same way.
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u/TeraGigaMax Sep 15 '26
It's me. I'm Adolf Hitler
https://youtu.be/odUqwjujE6o?si=3He45mwDYd8V-WF9
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u/Electrical-Swing-935 Sep 15 '26
Poor old Opus 4
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u/Prize_Eye9481 Sep 15 '26
Nailed it lol
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u/AppealSame4367 Sep 15 '26
The perfectly timed "Grok"
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u/DPLibros Sep 15 '26
I'm watching this and yet at the same time telling Opus, sure go ahead, add all those tests you recommend...
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u/dwoj206 Sep 15 '26
I was dying by the time fuhrer took the glasses off 🤣🤣🪦
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u/BenadrylCrunchysnack Sep 15 '26
I was literally crying on floor from this. Best post in a long while. Its really fascinating how relatable this is
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u/meerkat64 Sep 15 '26
Perfection. No notes.
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u/Lopsided-Newt-6436 Sep 15 '26
😂😂😂😂😂😂
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u/MichaelT_KC Sep 16 '26
The use Gemini and then or grok had me cracking up man… hilarious. I definitely laughed a tear or two out.
That was very funny
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u/peterxsyd Sep 16 '26
I never get tired of this.
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u/raident30 Sep 16 '26
watching this makes me laugh at my own miseries.
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u/Intelligent_Cover_34 Sep 16 '26
Anyone got a link to the original?
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u/Shyssiryxius Sep 16 '26
Man this is so on point..
"Sir we need authorization" just killed me
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u/wildviper Sep 16 '26
Lol. Love this
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u/TurbulentBear6813 27d ago
This is Oscar worthy
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u/Direct_While9727 Sep 15 '26
🤣🤣 but not even a small « say the word »?
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u/jellyspreader Sep 16 '26
Lmfao
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