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> ...do all the changes myself little by little, checking that the tests keep succeeding as I go along.

Or... you can do that with the robots instead?

I tried that with the last generation of Claude, only adding new functionality when the previously added functionality was complete, and it did a very good job. Well, Claude for writing the code and Deepseek-R1 for debugging.

Then I tried a more involved project with apparently too many moving parts for the stupid robots to keep track of and they failed miserably. Mostly Claude failed since that's where the code was being produced, can't really say if Deepseek would've fared any better because the usage limits didn't let me experiment as much.

Now that I have an idea of their limitations and had them successfully shave a couple yaks I feel pretty confident to get them working on a project which I've been wanting to do for a while.



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