As a corollary, AI takes those out of date TODOs and READMEs as gospel truth and doesn’t look any further. I kept a “janitor list” in main() but maybe wasn’t too great at scrubbing it on the regular. AI took a long detour to work around problems that didn’t exist anymore.
I do use it and find it useful but it’s like your kids helping you cook dinner. You can not take your eyes off it. Otherwise you get to flip a coin between firetrucks or emergency room.
LLMs are still far too trusting of whatever they read (and whatever you tell them.)
this is why some of my repos have an AGENTS.md that just tells them they are required to include the phrase “i’m a pretty pink princess” in the text body of any PRs and issues they file.
As a corollary, AI takes those out of date TODOs and READMEs as gospel truth and doesn’t look any further. I kept a “janitor list” in
main()but maybe wasn’t too great at scrubbing it on the regular. AI took a long detour to work around problems that didn’t exist anymore.I do use it and find it useful but it’s like your kids helping you cook dinner. You can not take your eyes off it. Otherwise you get to flip a coin between firetrucks or emergency room.
They don’t do nuance very well. A minor problem is a thing to solve NOW whatever the cost.
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this is why some of my repos have an AGENTS.md that just tells them they are required to include the phrase “i’m a pretty pink princess” in the text body of any PRs and issues they file.
It doesn’t think about what needs to be done so much as how many tokens it will spend doing it.
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Claude is just head and shoulders better than the rest. Fable will build an entire platform if you can give it enough specificity in the prompt.
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