Why agents are bad pair programmers

Re:Why agents are bad pair programmers by avandekleut on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @02:49PM (#44240041)

Ive found similar behaviour with stopping at linting errors. I wonder if my instructions are conflicting with the agent system prompt.

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Re:Why agents are bad pair programmers by kenfox on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @03:54PM (#44240761)

System prompts themselves have many contradictions. I remember hearing an Anthropic engineer (possibly Lex Fridman's interview with Amanda Askell) talking about using exaggerated language like "NEVER" just to steer Claude to rarely do something.

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Re:Why agents are bad pair programmers by apwell23 on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @05:52PM (#44241876)

that doesn't work ( atleast not anymore)

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