new favorite Claude Code prompt: "I have this script, and shits all fucked up. Put, like, a shit ton of debug statements in there (not print statements, I'm a CTO FFS) so I can sip bourbon while you figure out how to refactor this pile of filth into something I'm not ashamed to hand to a real dev." - ThreadSky

jdlong.cerebralmastication.com • 14 days ago

new favorite Claude Code prompt: "I have this script, and shits all fucked up. Put, like, a shit ton of debug statements in there (not print statements, I'm a CTO FFS) so I can sip bourbon while you figure out how to refactor this pile of filth into something I'm not ashamed to hand to a real dev."

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galenward.bsky.social•11 days ago

I love the ability to freestyle with it like this

prabinov42.bsky.social•13 days ago

I tried something similar and it replied "May I recommend the book 'Learn Python in 6 Weeks of Lunches for Dummies'".

codeyourassets.com•14 days ago

And how did that work out for ya?

jdlong.cerebralmastication.com•13 days ago

Wonderfully. Thanks for asking 😁

jdlong.cerebralmastication.com•13 days ago

My biggest surprise with Claude code is how “good” it is at working around obstacles. I had to try to access a DuckDB that I had locked with DBeaver. It tried once and then was like “fuck it I’ll just simulate some data.” Interesting solution. I wish it would’ve asked first though.

galenward.bsky.social•11 days ago

As part of my rules, I instruct it to keep a concise log of what it has done and why. That way you don't have to read all of the updates.

jdlong.cerebralmastication.com•11 days ago

That’s a good idea. Do you set that globally?

galenward.bsky.social•11 days ago

Yeah - I have 3-4 markdown files that give Claude context. 1 is the tools we're using, 2 is the big picture goal, 3 is rules. I ask it to update the rules because it's better at organizing them than I am.

galenward.bsky.social•11 days ago

"don't start NPM server and hang every time you make a small change!"

jdlong.cerebralmastication.com•13 days ago

I was of course “vibe coding“ so I didn’t read the code at first to realize what was done. But the narrative mentioned something about simulated data. So I was like “hang on there partner“

jdlong.cerebralmastication.com•12 days ago

so Claude Code has gotten pissed that I keep locking the DB so it has turned to violence.

jdlong.cerebralmastication.com•12 days ago

but it looked up the PID and is ready to unleash a modicum of violence. but it's not like it did `kill -9` or something. so I'm sure this is fine.

ehouskee.bsky.social•12 days ago

Over the weekend, I showed Claude Code my data-oriented web app and asked how it would build the same thing from scratch. It decided to mock up the data even though the data files were there, because it couldn’t get around CORS (honestly something I didn’t know existed until recently).

jdlong.cerebralmastication.com•12 days ago

Well, I had to do a search to figure out what CORS is. I was familiar with the concept and the issues with cross domain security, but I didn’t know the acronym. Sounds like a weird edge case it got hung up on.

hcoyote.bsky.social•14 days ago

“Roger. I got you fam. Log4j it is …”

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