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by TYPE_FASTER 75 days ago
I was working with Claude on a Chrome extension. The extension was getting a 429 "Too many requests" error on one website. Claude suggested a bunch of things to try, none of which really solved the problem and were kind of one-off attempts (hardcoded string compares, etc.).

Eventually I asked it "hey, are you sending two requests when you could send one?" Claude thought about it for a minute and said, "you're right! Let me fix that." The 429 errors stopped.

I've found it really is more like pair programming than having another fully independent developer. For Jenkins pipelines, I don't care about hardcoded string compares as much. For the core capability of the software, details are important.

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For what is worth, Codex would be able to fix that. Claude is pretty bad at backend / architecture.