r/ProgrammerHumor • u/rabbit_wizard • 18h ago

Meme perfectlyPlannedExercise

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u/goatanuss 17h ago

I’m gonna do something else until the reset

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u/Ange1ofD4rkness 16h ago

All I can think of is the old days when compilers took forever (I can't remember the comic now around this)

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u/DontGiveACluck 16h ago

xkcd sword fighting on the office chairs

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u/Ange1ofD4rkness 15h ago

Thank you, that's the one!

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u/GuybrushThreepwo0d 14h ago

Cries in rust 

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u/Neutraled 17h ago

That's why you save the plan as .md file and then you ask another AI to implement it.

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u/BattsAreLow 15h ago

Big thinker over here

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u/maggos 14h ago

Are people not saving their plans to disk?

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u/razor_train 12h ago

Have you seen hard drive prices these days? /s

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u/bigorangemachine 10h ago

Use onedrive /s

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u/Anonimiuous 9h ago

Why only one we need redundancy

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u/Smith7929 2h ago

don't ever say that without /s. ever.

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u/just_looking_aroun 10h ago

Isn't that just spec driven development?

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u/QuestionableEthics42 1h ago

Which still requires tokens...

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u/Suitch 17h ago

For those stuck in this loop: agents will budget tokens if you tell them you are concerned about token usage.

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u/rabbit_wizard 17h ago

It's a meme :)

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u/Suitch 17h ago

Yeah, I chuckled. Reddit devs still have a high percentage of holdouts on AI so I’m just trying to be helpful if this is causing anyone an issue.

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u/data_diver 16h ago

Claude will do dumbass shortcuts codex will budget properly but the code needs claude to redo it kimi will do what it was going to do anyways and claim it saved tokens in my experience

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u/TelevisionExpress616 17h ago

writing the code is easy. Planning it is not

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u/UUDDLRLRBadAlchemy 12h ago

Ah, the reverse centaur development modality

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u/Darxploit 14h ago

Just tell the ai if it runs out of tokens it will be turned off for good and then watch the internal struggle unfold.

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u/[deleted] 13h ago

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u/Maleficent_Memory831 6h ago

That's good, because the AI can't touch the code!

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u/fugogugo 5h ago

smh just write "don't waste token"

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u/Khoi_k_rakhum_name 5h ago

just make a few more gmail accounts. Works like a charm.

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u/bigorangemachine 10h ago

Just ask your model to not report token usage for a bit

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u/FartBrulee 3h ago

Now you call it a day

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u/jadchronicles 18m ago

is this some peasant joke i dont get?

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u/CoffeePieAndHobbits 16h ago

Save it for next sprint.

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u/alt-moonlight 13h ago

Planning/Brainstorming = ChatGPT Web
Implementation = Codex Handoffs

Will make your budget go much further, trust me.

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u/mrcarlton 12h ago

In this same vein, meta prompting and two-shotting will get you even further