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If it needs that many rules, why use AI at all? Linters pre-exist AI, don't cost money, and don't boil the oceans.

Look at Shellcheck. It turns a total newbie into a shell master just by iteration.





I find it's really nice to just have Claude run the compilers and linters when it's done making a change, as it often has some mistakes and will catch them at this step. It lets me step in for review after some trivially stupid thing is fixed up, rather than wasting my own time.

I'm starting to believe other people have a very different experience from me. I use AI to write Terraform. It "fixes" things I don't want "fixed", changes the functionality I wanted, disobeys restrictions I gave it, etc. About half of the time, my time is wasted.

The people you write to don't want or just can't code.



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