Hah today I discovered Claude Code has been copy/pasting gigantic blocks of conditions and styling every time I ask it to add a "--new" flag or whatever in a once tiny now gigantic script I've been adding features to.
It worked fine until recently where I will ask it to tweak some behavior of a command with a flag and it does a diff with like hundreds of lines. So now it's struggling to catch every place it needs to change some hardcoded duplicate values it decided to copy/paste into two dozen random places in the code.
To be fair it is doing a decent job unfucking it now that I noticed and started explicitly showing it how ridiculously cumbersome and unmaintainable it made things with specific examples and refactoring. But if I hadn't bothered to finally sit down and read through it thoroughly it would have just become more broken and inconsistent as it grew exponentially.
Yeah, it will definitely do dumb stuff if you don’t keep an eye on it and intervene if you see the signs that it’s heading in the wrong direction. But it’s very good at course correcting and if you end up in a truly disastrous state you can almost always fix it be reverting to the last working commit and start a fresh context.
It worked fine until recently where I will ask it to tweak some behavior of a command with a flag and it does a diff with like hundreds of lines. So now it's struggling to catch every place it needs to change some hardcoded duplicate values it decided to copy/paste into two dozen random places in the code.
To be fair it is doing a decent job unfucking it now that I noticed and started explicitly showing it how ridiculously cumbersome and unmaintainable it made things with specific examples and refactoring. But if I hadn't bothered to finally sit down and read through it thoroughly it would have just become more broken and inconsistent as it grew exponentially.