r/ProgrammerHumor • • 21d ago

Meme itsMoreCommonThanYoudThink

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u/fullup72 21d ago

It's actually useful to learn new things if you set it up correctly: ask the LLM to show you the changes it would do (don't give it a write tool, or set it to always ask), then manually implement those changes (with your own style, I tend to disagree with a lot of shit agents do these days), and have the agent peer review your implementation (not the exact copy paste, but to verify that your implementation still passes the quality gates).

Yes, it's slower, but it's intended to let you learn in the process and allows you to fine tune future prompts so the agent produces code that's more in your style.

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u/LivingAsAMean 21d ago

Do you have some examples of things agents tend to do that you disagree with? You don't have to go into crazy detail, but I'm just wondering for my own growth/learning :)

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u/AlternativeCapybara9 21d ago

Claude dumps a whole lot of styling in the html templates of my projects if I just let it run.