Dev Begs AI Coding Assistant: 'Stop Apologizing and Just Fix the Code'
Kind-Ad6740 · reddit · 2026-08-02
A Reddit user shared a video that deeply resonated with the developer community, venting frustrations about AI coding assistants wasting tokens and output on excessive apologies when encountering bugs or corrections, rather than just providing the fixed code.
This phenomenon of "great attitude but zero actual work" sparked a collective agreement among developers, urging AI vendors to optimize system prompts so the AI talks less and does more.
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