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- just another prompt right?by v3ss0n
- > Improve SEO
> Reduce maintenance overhead
> Make your application compile faster
> Find unused code in our web app. Exclude generated files and test fixtures, and check for indirect references before recommending a removal.
If someone came to me with these requirements, I would laugh in their face. These reek of busy work with no actual business benefit. Have these people actually built real software before?
by Sheeny96 - Yep, we've been doing this "agenticly" at my job for a while now. I can't say the results are often impressive, particularly if you underspecify what you actually want.by NBJack
- Their sample prompt takes me back a year or two:
> Find unused code in our web app. Exclude generated files and test fixtures, and check for indirect references before recommending a removal.
If I "/goal remove unused code" in Claude today, I would not even think to specify "check for indirect references" and "don't consider generated code dead code," those sorts of intuitions have been "built in" to the frontier models for a while now.
So I'm pretty confused by this, what does it do that I can't with an agent swarm?
by akersten