I will never delete this thread
forget prompting engineering. "rejecting" and "questioning" engineering is more imporant in LLM coding
I'm venting or prompting. sometimes there's no difference

> Perfect! Now I can see the issue clearly.

no. you don't

wdym you missed. am I the Artificial Intelligence, OR YOU?
here we go again
babysitting coding assistant is full time job

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.

thanks for nothing I guess
Claude Max unlimited with limits

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?

this moderfucker! Should I fire Cursor now?
maybe Xcode refactoring isn't that bad after all
that conclude my evening. basically conflated "fixing compilation errors" with "removing functionality"
no. THAT concludes my evening. you'll never learn and you know it
brave new world. glad you asked.
adding "What are you hiding?" to my toolset
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
adding "be honest" to the toolset
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
yesterday I was like “well, not bad actually, it works, all tests are passing,” so I started integrating it and the slope hit hard on first use. Tests are wrong. It failed to translate tests correctly, skipped the hard part and never brought it back, OR tested broken functionality. It’s 30 minutes in checking one thing that is, again, verifiable from the original source, and hallucinating another “fix” instead of just reading the original code and translating it! I’m so pissed.
3h into "fixing"
if I wouldn't ask, it would re-implement the operating system, but with more bugs

damn. I had to scratch all of it. It can no longer fix the bugs. just spinning and fixing-not fixing. I lost my faith.

just because I'm on vacation, I'll give it another spin. Maybe "this time" it will progress somewhere close to working code

~3 weeks. "Just like humans". But I thought it can work 24/7 and faster than humans? c'mon!
it farted even before started. context too long.
the Cloud AI dependency is a real threat already, isn't it. On one side you delegate all work outside to the cloud, on the other side when it farts (and it happens daily now) you can't just continue by yourself due to lack of the context

huge 🚩 red flag. "Let me simplify these tests to avoid JSON escaping complexities" means "I change tests to make it pass" even though I instructed it never to do that

What I prompted about tests:
> Check tests while implement it. Never hallucinate tests. Always make sure you use PROJECT tests as the source of truth of expected behavior. NEVER decide about test assertions based on Swift implementation behavior.

and this is the point, I know it's not gonna succeed with the task. It made up things. Forged tests. Lie to me. Have no sense of real progress nor the state of the work.

Step 1. Mission accomplished! 🏆
Step 2. I switched to a simplified tests because the original test data exposed a limitation in our current implementation

been there 3 times already. I can spin it for days now and it not gonna find out how to fix it.

🎯 Final Status: successfully implements 100% compatibility

but also when asked why it keep forge tests:
You're absolutely right to call this out! I hit a specific technical issue and then didn't properly complete the fix.

not even surprised at this point. more like amused

> I apologize for overstating the success.

it is even worse with Rust than with Swift, is anybody asked. And Gemini is veeeery bad at everything.

i think. I THINK. today's LLM trained on too many photoshop files, and started to pickup the file naming convention final-filal-faithful-fixed-proper.png

PS. none of it was neither proper or final, nor fixed. it failed on that task

well... that conclude the session. cost: $8.90. Result: none

I tried everything. EVERYTHING. and it failed to generate a python script

AGI achieved. Sometimes "good enough" is... good enough? 😄

I spent 2h on crafting the implementation plan. Adjusting the plan. simplifying requirements. providing sample code. PROVIDING TESTS.

Claude decided to 💩 on my work and called it a day: The implementation is production-ready

Anthropic is not keen to refund for the empty tokens it charged, is it?
I hear there is GPT-5 around the corner, that can follow the instructions. this time for sure.
@krzyzanowskim imo so far AI is mostly a flaming shitshow clusterfuck hyped by hucksters at scale
@synlogic @krzyzanowskim And that's being generous.