Egregoros

@WandererUber I’ve seen them become real defensive bastards recently too “well technically I didn’t say that even though I wrote code that shows I totally did say that”. I get better results when I break down every problem into smaller chunks “okay we’re doing this big feature, but you’re fucking it up, let’s just start with problem 1, get this API call to work, easy enough. Okay, the API call now works, let’s do the next small chunk of work.” And you just basically just keep building on the small chunks of work that it can knock out like fish in a barrel.

That being said I also use Cursor at work where it’s directly plugged into the code base so it has a lot of “good code” it can reference which I’m sure helps it not be as retarded.

@WandererUber I‘m always like “okay remove the fucking em-dash from my code you clanker piece of shit.” It fucks shit up sometimes depending on if you’re working with various UTF encodings. They also love emojis, although seemingly that’s been backed off a bit, my theory on that was emojis are probably more “universal” so the AIs were adding them because your Indian colleagues know what the image means when they might not be able to read the words. They definitely do that less now, we had so much code with fucking emojis in it I kept going through PRs and tearing that shit out.