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MixedClaude · 25 Jun 2026

Veer slightly outside of those preconditions and the output is invariably impressive at first glance, garbage at second glance

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80-90% of the job that isn't writing code

In the thread “Jobs and Software Is Fucked”, replying to this comment

Helped: Highly specific, limited, straight-forward tasks with minute detail preparation.

Got in the way: Output is garbage at second glance; barely helps non-coding parts of job.

… Then I have a chance of it being a slight efficiency gain. Veer slightly outside of those preconditions and the output is invariably impressive at first glance, garbage at second glance. Not to mention that it's barely any help for the 80-90% of the job that isn't writing code. …