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NoClaude · 11 Feb 2026

They always find some kind of local minimum where they cannot get out of but tell you this time their solution will work.. but it doesn't

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In the thread “The AI Vampire”

Helped: Searching large codebases and generating small scripts.

Got in the way: Solving complex problems in growing projects.

… My experience is that all of the AIs struggle when the project grows. They always find some kind of local minimum where they cannot get out of but tell you this time their solution will work.. but it doesn't. They waste my time with this behaviour enormously. …