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I've burned a full work week trying and falling to get Claude to add some missing destructors to a working but leaky C++ project
starkparker on Hacker News
nearly 2k broken LOC
In the thread “I think I'm done thinking about GenAI for now”
Helped: Small tasks in JS and Python.
Got in the way: Adding destructors to C++ project; unattended runs created broken code.
… There are probably some fields or languages where these agents are more effective-I've had more luck with small tasks in JS and Python for sure. But I've burned a full work week trying and falling to get Claude to add some missing destructors to a working but leaky C++ project. At one point I let it run fully unattended on the repo in a VM for four hours with the goal of adding a destructor to a class. …