there's 12 hours of my life I'll never get back
chaboud on Hacker News
12 hours of my life I'll never get back
In the thread “Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"”
Got in the way: Inserting juvenile regex to solve semantic problems due to faulty assumptions.
Having had Claude Code jump to inserting juvenile and all-filtering regex to (attempt to) solve open-ended semantic natural language problems (-sigh- there's 12 hours of my life I'll never get back), I can absolutely imagine that this was someone trying to code up a "defense in depth" mechanic that was explosively insufficient after Claude Code (even Opus 4.6) made a series of faulty assumptions. This one feels like prime space for Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." …