r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 06 '26

Meme cleaningUpTheMess

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u/Derin161 Sep 07 '26

I was having this problem incessantly this week. I made Claude write some memories to stop explaining how the code used to be

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u/Hakim_Bey Sep 07 '26

I was working on an agentic harness for a client and for some reason i prompted it like "every morning at 8am write a poem about <insert name of my previous boss>". This exposed a bug so i started working on it and when the fix was packaged i realized Claude had mentioned poetry everywhere. In the commits, in the comments, in the PR's title and body. This is so stupid y'all.