Comment by streetfighter64

3 days ago

I mean, all I can really say is... if writing some logging takes you one or two days, are you sure you _really_ know how to code?

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boxedemp  3 days ago

Ever worked on a distributed system with hundreds of millions of customers and seemingly endless business requirements?

Some things are complex.

shepherdjerred  3 days ago

You're right, you're better than me!

You could've been curious and ask why it would take 1-2 days, and I would've happily told you.

  • jamesmcq  3 days ago

    I'll bite, because it does seem like something that should be quick in a well-architected codebase. What was the situation? Was there something in this codebase that was especially suited to AI-development? Large amounts of duplication perhaps?

    • shepherdjerred  3 days ago

      It's not particularly interesting.

      I wanted to add audit logging for all endpoints we call, all places we call the DB, etc. across areas I haven't touched before. It would have taken me a while to track down all of the touchpoints.

      Granted, I am not 100% certain that Claude didn't miss anything. I feel fairly confident that it is correct given that I had it research upfront, had multiple agents review, and it made the correct changes in the areas that I knew.

      Also I'm realizing I didn't mention it included an API + UI for viewing events w/ pretty deltas

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fendy3002  3 days ago

Well someone who says logging is easy never knows the difficulty of deciding "what" to log. And audit log is different beast altogether than normal logging

  • streetfighter64  12 hours ago

    Audit logging is different because it's actually more straightforward than "normal logging". You just make a log entry for each state change, basically. Especially if you're storing the log entries as "objects" instead of plain text.

    Besides, do you think that a LLM would be better at deciding what to log than a human that has even just a little experience with the actual system in question?

therealdrag0  3 days ago

Audit logging is different than developer logging… companies will have entire teams dedicated to audit systems.