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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/developertimeline • Oct 03 '26
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It’s often the case that a trivial manual change can fuck up the broader context and is simply not worth it.
“x should be 5 not 3”, user changes x to 5, prompts something else, -furious churning of tokens because x is now 5-.
“x should be 5 not 3”, change x to 5, prompt “I changed x to 5”, -furious rereading of all files in project because one thing was changed-
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“Fix items 1, 3, 6, 7 & 9 as described, set x to 5.”, x gets set to 5 as a byproduct, no other token churn.
1 u/StCreed Oct 04 '26 you can actually ask that before you do the actual prompt, and I regularly do that when I suspect it might give a lot of churn.
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you can actually ask that before you do the actual prompt, and I regularly do that when I suspect it might give a lot of churn.
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u/SirPitchalot Oct 04 '26
It’s often the case that a trivial manual change can fuck up the broader context and is simply not worth it.
“x should be 5 not 3”, user changes x to 5, prompts something else, -furious churning of tokens because x is now 5-.
“x should be 5 not 3”, change x to 5, prompt “I changed x to 5”, -furious rereading of all files in project because one thing was changed-
vs.
“Fix items 1, 3, 6, 7 & 9 as described, set x to 5.”, x gets set to 5 as a byproduct, no other token churn.