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I can't tell how much of this is sarcasm

> we (expert developers) ...

> took like a week and a half of attempts with Claude Code ...

What kind of expert developer wastes that much time prompting a bunch of different LLMs to end up with a workaround, instead of actually debugging and fixing the bug themselves?

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To be charitable to the parent poster, I've had multi-week bugs that turned out to be a tiny change, where every test iteration took hours of compile time...

Fair question but I think the tone of this is a bit abrasive towards the poster, and unnecessarily so.

there is a lot of disdain for vibe coding/coders, as Im sure you already know. I was going to post something similar as soon as I read a week and a half of prompts. I pray that any gainfully employed expert coders don't spend 10 days prompting, rather than coding lol

I really don't think so. "Expert" developer really needs to mean something other than "prompting and poking at Claude Code".

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