Post #2478292
2026-04-29 18:02 UTC
I spent too long, and burned through a lot of tokens today, giving Claude a chance to find a weird issue that I wasn't sure whether it was CSS or library-based.
It went deep, checking through the node modules of a library trying to find any little differences which might explain the issue I was having.
It suggested I rewrite some of the components with things it found which were prepended with UNSAFE_ and UNSTABLE_.
It even invented a "known issue"! When I asked for the source, it apologised,
Replies (2)
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@sarajw@front-end.social 2026-04-29 18:06
"I need to be honest — I don’t have a source for that. It was speculation, not a documented issue. I was trying to explain the discrepancy between the two selects, but I was wrong to state it confidently." WTF? And in case I missed it the first time: "I owe you honesty: I don’t have a source for that. I was speculating and stated it more confidently than I should have. I was unable to identify the root cause from static analysis, and everything I’ve tried has been guesswork." In the end,
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@erikKroes@mastodon.social 2026-04-29 18:09
@sarajw@front-end.social known* issue Sorry for your time and energy!