alt Hacker NewsFor my current project I'm coding every day in Java, ruby, and JavaScript. I waste a lot of tokens doing what used to be simple google searches for language differences since I mix up things like the null-safe operator ruby vs jscript or what is the continue/break statement in ruby vs java. I think Claude is probably very disappointed in me that the most complicated thing I use it for is refactoring old Java loops to use more modern streams which can be unwritable for a human off the top of your head.
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d1sxeyes • yesterday at 7:09 PM
It doesn’t help that Google has gone to shit though, and what used to be a simple Google search is now an enshittified embedded experience with an AI anyway.
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> which can be unwritable for a human
Unfortunate, those types of refactorings are my favorite, since they're tightly scoped, easy to verify correctness, and it's like a little puzzle. Bonus points if you write your own collector or use some more obscure parts of the stdlib.