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MixedClaude · 9 Oct 2025

I rolled back and re-prompted and got something that looked good and worked

alzoid on Hacker News

2600 lines of C

In the thread “Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at”, replying to this comment

Helped: Second prompt after rollback produced working code.

Got in the way: First output contained duplicated code and fake data.

… About half of the code generated fake data rather than actually do anything with the system. I rolled back and re-prompted and got something that looked good and worked. The LLMs are magic when they work well but they can throw a wrench into your system that will cost you more if you don't catch it. …