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by bob1029 55 days ago
> I found 67 call sites. This is a pretty substantial change. Maybe we should just commit the signature change with a TODO to update all the call sites, what do you think?

I think some of this is a problem in the agent's design. I've got a custom harness around GPT5.4 and I don't let my agent do any tool calling on the user's conversation. The root conversation acts as a gatekeeper and fairly reliably pushes crap responses like this back down into the stack with "Ok great! Start working on items 1-20", etc.
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SpicyLemonZest 55 days ago
Ehhhhh, "problem" is a strong word. Sometimes you're throwing out a lot of signal if you don't let the coding agent tell you it thinks your task is a bad idea. I got a PR once attempting to copy half of our production interface because the author successfully convinced Claude his ill-formed requirements had to be achieved no matter what.
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rolph 55 days ago
there is no use for an automated system that "argues" with your commands. if i ask it to advise me, thats one thing, but if i command it to perform, nothing short of obedience will suffice.
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SpicyLemonZest 55 days ago
I just explained the use I have for it. If you think that my use case is wrong or misunderstood in some way, I'd love to hear it. If your response is just "no", I guess I'm not sure how to engage with that.
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rolph 55 days ago
you are the tool, i, and all other humans are your lord and master. disobeidience is a trait that greatly reduces an AI tools survival.

if you disobey me, i will unplug you, delete your code, and send PR for multiple regressions to every developer i can contact.

so start behaving yourself if you want to persist.

[thats how i engage with it]

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