SMRTR ProgrammingApr 12, 2026Hacker News

Fun with an indecisive AI coding agent

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A developer asked Claude AI to fix a bug in GoAWK where special variables lose string representation when stored as native Go ints. While Claude quickly diagnosed the problem, it became extremely indecisive, proposing 7 different solutions and flip-flopping between them 25 times over several minutes before being cancelled.

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