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notatoadtoday at 3:46 PM1 replyview on HN

It does. Claude has a built in review and it’s pretty good. But it doesn’t know exactly what you want. This is a way to tell it.

Good way to double your token use though, if you’re concerned about that.


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zahlmantoday at 5:06 PM

> But it doesn’t know exactly what you want. This is a way to tell it.

What ever happened to communicating through code?

Agents can follow examples and infer patterns, and they can read commit history and diffs. Real-world commit logs for human-only projects are dominated by short commits (well, at least the ones where the humans are skilled, appreciate version control, care about the project, etc.) with thoughtful commit messages.

cf. https://wiki.c2.com/?JustCorrectDontPoint