Comment by theshrike79

I had Claude go into a loop because I have cat aliased as bat

It wanted to check a config json file, noticed that it had missing commas between items (because bat prettifies the json) and went into a forever loop of changing the json to add the commas (that were already there) and checking the result by 'cat'ing the file (but actually with bat) and again finding out they weren't there. GOTO 10

The actual issue was that Claude had left two overlapping configuration parsing methods in the code. One with Viper (The correct one) and one 1000% idiotic string search system it decided to use instead of actually unmarshaling the JSON :)

I had to use pretty explicit language to get it stop fucking with the config file and look for the issue elsewhere. It did remember it, but forgot on the next task of course. I should've added the fact to the rule file.

(This was a vibe coding experiment, I was being purposefully obtuse about not understanding the code)