AI should only run as fast as we can catch up

All these engineers who claim to write most code through AI - I wonder what kind of codebase that is. I keep on trying, but it always ends up producing superficially okay-looking code, but getting nuances wrong. Also fails to fix them (just changes random stuff) if pointed to said nuances.

I work on a large product with two decades of accumulated legacy, maybe that's the problem. I can see though how generating and editing a simple greenfield web frontend project could work much better, as long as actual complexity is low.

Honestly, if you've ever looked at a claude.md file, it seems like absolute madness. I feel like I'm reading affirmations from AA.

It’s magical incantations that might or might not protect you from bad behavior Claude learned from underqualified RL instructors. A classic instruction I have in CLAUDE.md is „Never delete a test. You are only allowed to replace with a test that covers the same branches.“ and another one „Never mention Claude in a commit message“. Of course those sometimes fail, so I do have a message hook that enforces a certain style of git messages.

> Never mention Claude in a commit message“. Of course those sometimes fail,

It’s hardcoded into the system prompt which is why your CLAUDE.md approach fails. Ended up intercepting it out via proxy