[joebates]

Same. Luckily I enjoy the process of refactoring and deleting code is nearly arousing, so I get the initial dopamine rush of wow this works, followed by the dopamine rush of "wow now this is cleaner and works so much better". Keeps me in touch with the codebase too.

[pixelready]

Pruning code is to software engineers what cancelling plans is to introverts :)

I think I need to work up a Claude skill named marie-kondo, so that when it breathlessly presents its triumphant solution, I can go “yes, but does it spark joy?” And have it go into an aggressive refactor loop with me.

[fragmede]

Sounded like fun so had Claude do one up here: https://github.com/fragmede/marie-kondo-ai-skill

[nostrebored]

Hypothetical future callers, "for extensibility" abstractions, single-use helpers, ceremonial try/except blocks, and options dicts with one key all get culled.

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But this is never the problem. Claude WILL NOT abstract and WILL NOT use your abstractions. It finds them all “ceremonial” and the idea that you could add something that might seem indirect that actually dramatically reduces the problem space is almost impossible to convey.

You can watch this in action for any API whose design you’re familiar with in a domain you understand well. If you attempt to design the same API with Claude, your will invariably get a mess of flat, insane types and no reuse. I’m talking an array of tuples of maps of set to map type insanity.

What has been helping is a mandatory pass of “Claudisms”, but even then it can only find the problem and never the solution.

It is so frustrating.

[suzzer99]

I question any dev who doesn't get aroused by deleting code.

I just removed an entire graphql endpoint - 500 lines of front and back-end code. I may need to be hosed down.

[scubbo]

`$JOB` recently introduced the `#red-diffs` Slack channel. I just submitted ` +4 / -28,742`. Pretty proud.

[suzzer99]

It's so beautiful.

[fragmede]

Get a room!

[devinprater]

Oh my. I may not want to know what selecting all and then pressing Delete would do to you.