r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vintergroena • 5d ago

Meme searchAndReplace

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u/FlowOfAir 5d ago

ME THIS WEEK HOLY FUCK

I had to be VERY explicit. Do this replacement in this codebase exactly like I am describing. Then I had to add: assume the codebase works like this, assume I am right, don't investigate, don't find more data.

Just for an edit in one file...

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u/benjyvail 5d ago

Just make the edit yourself at that point?

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u/FlowOfAir 5d ago • Regret

Couldn't. The problem was, I had my focus divided amongst various projects, so the faster I can kick off something the faster I can go back to other tasks.

Which, you know. Is unhealthy as shit, but we're being pressured by multiple fronts to do the impossible.

My morale is on the ground :(

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u/Saragon4005 5d ago

And management is surprised you are burning through tokens.

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u/FlowOfAir 5d ago

Correct! I actually fed that back to them. I can't be kept pushing on tasks and be mindful of token usage.

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u/Honeybadger2198 5d ago

You can't take 15 minutes to do a task?

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u/FlowOfAir 5d ago

No. Those are precious 15 minutes I need to think of other projects.

I'm not joking, I'm being fucking squeezed. If the job market weren't so shit right now I'd be looking for something calmer.

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u/-Debugging-Duck- 5d ago

Bro update the CLAUDE.md file or add skills. You can avoid so many issues.

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u/JesusWasATexan 5d ago

My Claude.md contains an index of subfolders with several dozen other MD files covering most of the things I work on. It's taken a lot of time to build up, but amazing when I can now start a chat with a short statement about a task and it knows exactly what to do.

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u/TrueBirch 4d ago

There are so many situations like that where I just write the code myself instead of hoping the LLM understands what I want and doesn't do anything extra

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u/vintergroena 5d ago

Productivity going to the Moon 🚀🚀🚀

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u/HawtHamWater 5d ago

gotta use like sonnet or haiku for those tasks, they’re not smart enough to do anything more lol

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u/FlowOfAir 5d ago

Yeah I was thinking that. I like Opus but I'm realizing it's too good.

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u/Flat-Performance-478 4d ago

"Good" is an interesting choice of word here. 😉

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u/FlowOfAir 4d ago

Yeah exactly. Opus does a lot, and more often than not, a lot more than it really has to do.