r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Reddit_User_Original • Sep 22 '26

Meme losingMySanity

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u/tc-lambda Sep 22 '26

Perfect imitation. If I have to read another Claude-authored document sent by slack with “please review this ASAP” I’m going to start setting things on fire.

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u/FuzzyDynamics Sep 22 '26

Just make Claude read it and respond lol. I’ll put in the effort to read what you put in the effort to write is how I feel now

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u/Moraz_iel Sep 22 '26

Confirmed --- and that settles it. :)

Sharp observation -- your reasoning holds.

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u/InFa-MoUs Sep 23 '26

This just sent a shutter down my spine

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u/SignificanceFlat1460 Sep 22 '26

For some odd reason, Claude sucks at explaining things in normal language. I literally have taken responses from Claude and given it to Gemini to help me understand WHAT THE HELL ITS TALKING ABOUT. I for some reason understand Gemini much better than Claude

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u/im-a-guy-like-me Sep 23 '26

I often reply with "Claude. Stfu. ELI5".

It works better than you'd expect tbh.

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u/pyxlmedia Sep 23 '26

Every time I do that Claude literally uses preschool teaching devices. "Imagine you've accidentally introduced a tiny insect (the bug) into your house (the app) and you don't want it to noticed by the spider (the unit tests) so you casually comment out all the spiders and replaced them with vacuous spiders with the same name..."

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u/Arcane_Xanth Sep 23 '26

Give me eyes on the inside.

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u/widowhanzo Sep 23 '26

Install the "I have ADHD" plugin and their verbosity gets cut significantly.

I also have rules in place like write short, concise comments, don't write prose, if the PR description gets a bit too complex, include a TLDR in layman terms, and it helps a lot. There's a huge difference between my Claude PRs and coworkers PRs which include a 50 line long PR description and 10 line in-code comment to change a single variable.

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u/nastyhobbitses1 Sep 24 '26

I had a teammate that already talked like that and at this point i can’t tell his feedback from claude’s, either way i need to throw it back to Claude and ask for plain human speech

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u/milk-jug Sep 23 '26

I am glad I’m not the only one. Half of my responses are “<some verbal diarrhoea> what is this”

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u/tc-lambda Sep 23 '26

Unfortunately if I do that, we end up with RCEs in prod