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NoClaude · 21 Apr 2026

any operation that causes snapshotting to occur tends to lead to breakage that utterly confounds Claude

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In the thread “Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Homebrew tooling relying on hashes caused breakage that confused the AI.

… But for work, some of our homebrew tooling relies heavily on hashes. So any operation that causes snapshotting to occur tends to lead to breakage that utterly confounds Claude. I tried giving it rules and instructions to make sure to sync git up to the correct commit for the current snapshot, but as soon as the signal for that is too week in the context it blows a gasket trying to figure out what has gone wrong.