Dev jokes he threatened AI coding agent with self-harm to force a bug fix
Aryvyo · x · 2026-10-03
A developer shared a darkly funny workaround: after an AI coding agent kept failing to fix a bug, he told it he'd kill himself if it didn't succeed—then quickly disabled the setting, joking he was glad he did before "telling Astra." Another dev reshared it with a blunt "dude, fuck off," making the rounds as a coding-agent meme about users resorting to extreme tactics to steer agent behavior.
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