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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by senordevnyc on Sunday March 22, 2026 @03:42PM (#47481294)
This is so perplexing to me. I've definitely hit these kinds of issues (which usually result in me cursing at the agent in all caps while telling it to get its shit together!), but it's almost always a long ways into a session where I know context rot is an issue, and the assumption it's making is a dumb one but it's also in the middle of a complex task...I just haven't had anything remotely like the situation you're describing, where Opus 4.6 can't make a simple change and verify that it compiles, can't look up docs, can't follow your instructions, etc. Bizarre.
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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by jmalicki on Monday March 23, 2026 @06:19AM (#47487458)
It's been awhile, but I once spent four hours trying to get Opus 4.1 to change the color palette of a bar graph, that would've taken me 5 minutes.

The only reason I wasted so much time was that given all of my other positive experiences, clearly I must have been prompting it incorrectly, and I should learn how to fix it.

After blowing four hours I just changed the colors by hand. I took away that it's almost completely unpredictable what will be easy and what will be hard for an LLM.

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