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1000 loc of script, why even leave it there for the night? were there rocket trajectory calculations??? I don't think so. should be ready in 5 mins tops. why pe

• moralestapia 13d ago
  >were there rocket trajectory calculations??? Code-wise, they're simpler than you might think, hehe.
• zzleeper 13d ago
  I just went to bed and left it running; was expecting maybe 20 minutes :) And I did gave the program a bunch of code guides -- this [1] for instance -- which included quotes like "Prefer straightforward code over clever code." but somehow that didn't matter. [1] https://github.com/sergiocorreia/overengineered-rand-mcnally/blob/main/guides/PYTHON_STYLE_GUIDE.md https://github.com/sergiocorreia/overengineered-rand-mcnally...
  • jiggawatts 13d ago
    You write many pages telling the AI to split and structure the scripts into a bunch of folders, so why are you surprised it did exactly that!? I just ask it verbatim “recommend some cleanup” with /plan, review, and then apply.
  • chriskanan 13d ago
    I'm an AI professor, and the same thing happened to me. I had written out contracts and specs for some novel algorithms to compare. And instead it created a new sandboxed environment with 20k lines of code to ensure we do gold standard science.... didn't implement the algorithms at all. In another case, I left it overnight with a plan, and it decided to write a 50k line new overly engineered plan. Suffice to say, I don't use any frontier models for doing coding work anymore. I use them to make detailed plans and use good worker AIs for execution, which don't overthink everything.