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simonw • yesterday at 4:24 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The prompt was:

  Ultrathink. You're a principal engineer. Do not ask me any
  questions. We need to improve the quality of this codebase.
  Implement improvements to codebase quality.
I'm a little disappointed that Claude didn't eventually decide to start removing all of the cruft it had added to improve the quality that way instead.

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Gricha • yesterday at 5:26 PM

Yeah, the best it did on some iterations is claimed that the codebase was already in the good state and didn't produce changes - but that was 1 in many.