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I’m perfectly comfortable and used to delegating, but delegation requires trust that the result …

I’m perfectly comfortable and used to delegating, but delegation requires trust that the result will be fit for purpose. It doesn’t have to be exactly how I would do it but at a minimum it has to work correctly and have acceptable performance for the task at hand. This doesn’t mean being super optimized just that it shouldn’t be doing stupid things like n+1 requests or database queries etc. See a sibling comment for one example on correctness, another one related to performance was querying some information from a couple of database tables (the first with 50,000 rows the next with 2.5 million) After specifying things in enough detail to let the AI go, it got correct results but performance was rather slow. A bit more back and forthing and it got up to processing 4,000 rows a second. It was so impressed with its new performance it started adding rocket ship emojis to the output summary. There were still some obvious (to me) performance issues so I pressed it to see if it could improve the performance. …

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I am guessing: Maybe you are not used to or comfortable with delegating work? You will certainly understand a program better where you write every line of code yourself, but that limits your output. It's a trade-off. The part that makes it work quite well is that you can also use the LLM to better understand the code where required, simply by asking.

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Not trying to downplay your grievances, but isn't this what [Skills]( https://claude.com/skills ) are for? After going back and forth on something like that, create a skill that's something along the lines of `database-query-speed-optimization` "Some rules of thumb for using database queries: - Use joins - Streaming results is faster - etc. " That way, the next time you have to do something like this, you can remind it of / it will find the skill.

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kukkeliskuuHN

> It was so impressed with its new performance it started adding > rocket ship emojis to the output summary. I laughed more at this than I probably should have, out of recognition.

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