Re:I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again
by crazygringo on Sunday March 08, 2026 @12:04PM
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Exactly. The vast majority of people prefer to re-use code that has been battle-tested by use in thousands of other projects, where bugs have been found and fixed.
This isn't to say that they're perfect or bug-free, but they generally don't just save time but increase the quality of your final product.
Writing your own implementation of third-party functionality that already exists has its place, but it's generally something you implement later as an optimization for very specific reasons.
You call it a trivial instruction, but it is not trivial. It was a core requirement for your own design that you neglected to specify. This is not different than leaving out any other core requirement for a engineering specification.
Most people would NOT want this requirement. Meaning most people wouldn't care if there are package dependencies are not, so the agent 100% did the right thing.