Re:The Programmer Identity Crisis
by zamalek on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @07:58PM
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> LLM-written ones are almost entirely additive
I have noticed Claude's extreme and obtuse reluctance to delete code, even code that it just wrote that I told it is wrong. For example, it might produce a fn:
fn foo(bar)
And then I say, no, I actually wanted you to "foo with a frobnitz", so now we get:
fn foo(bar) // Never called
fn foo_with_frobnitz(bar)
I have noticed Claude's extreme and obtuse reluctance to delete code, even code that it just wrote that I told it is wrong. For example, it might produce a fn:
And then I say, no, I actually wanted you to "foo with a frobnitz", so now we get: