Marcin Krzyzanowskinever stop being funny. this is after 3rd "are you sure"
this machine will do anything to make things worse. and then refuse to understand it.
fair enough it was trained like that. Internet is full of garbage.
forget prompting engineering. "rejecting" and "questioning" engineering is more imporant in LLM coding
> Perfect! Now I can see the issue clearly.
no. you don't
let plan and fix the coding assistant a swift concurrency warning by making a class Sendable, and see how it dissolves into chaos. line by line. one MainActor at a time.
it has no clue what to do.
Asked coding assistants to implement token bucket throttler. Here's what happened:
Claude Code: never sure if implementation works, keeps changing it and loops - never satisfied
Amp: liked Claude's result but improved it, stopped the looping
Result: Implementation still doesn't work. When asked about failures, says "found the bug" but fails to fix it despite claiming it's tested
Don't think it can create a working throttler
I am with the stupid one here. I asked it to implement something and test it. It did all of that, then called it a day after 88% of tests passing.
Am I supposed to fix the remaining 12% of the code?
that conclude my evening. basically conflated "fixing compilation errors" with "removing functionality"
it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission. this mfker wrote wrong tests firsts, then when I fixed the logic, it disabled tests because couldn't make it right
I don't know what's hard to understand in "reimplement this code, when in doubt, always check the original implementation." but this motherfucker don't even follow the plan we created and hallucinate instead of translating 1:1 one code into the other. I'm so tired. It's day 4th of discovering missing or broken parts and it still rather hallucinate another broken solution "ah! now I see what is the problem" than check on the original code and find what is missing / reimplemented plain wrong
Joe Groff (1M Context)@krzyzanowskim "coding agents make you 20% slower" actually statistical error. agents marcin, who spent two weeks arguing with a coding LLM, is a statistical outlier and should not have been counted
@joe you're not wrong. obvious "prompting issues" on my side. and I can't write spec. I can't do the proper plan. It would work 100% if I only do all thing right. I'm sold on that idea and bet half of a bitcoin it's sentient
Jeff Watkins@krzyzanowskim @joe I wonder if it would be cheaper and less frustrating to hire a junior developer. At least then you’d be helping another human improve.
@jeffwatkins @joe As an indie the human hiring process is quite a steep comparing to "easy" launching the ai app. As a company I hanve no doubt rhe junior is 100x more valuable asset than LLM agent. no doubt at this point.