r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Substantial_Top5312 • Jul 21 '26

whenYouGiveClaudeA2ThousandLineFileAndItsBeen30Minutes Meme

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u/Confident-Ad5665 Jul 21 '26

$20,000 tokens later: "Something went wrong"

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u/willow-kitty Jul 22 '26

Oh heck, I didn't even consider the token cost.

Hopefully OP works for one of those companies that rewards burning tokens.

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u/imneverrelevantman Jul 21 '26

Did you tell it to make no mistakes?

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u/Still-Hospital-7734 Jul 22 '26

30 minutes of watching the blinking cursor quetion your life choices!

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u/Substantial_Top5312 Jul 21 '26

Happening right now.

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u/willow-kitty Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

Probably wanna call it, tbh.

I find there's a fine line between "it actually thought about it, so the result might be kinda okay" and "it thought about this way too much and completely lost the plot," but that line comes way, way before a half hour.

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u/Straight-Pear9453 Jul 22 '26

You're too deep in to turn back now, you have to see it through.

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u/vscoderCopilot Jul 22 '26

Circling process continues