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When the Code (and the LLMs) Start Fighting Back

Common Frustrations (and Emotional Whiplash)

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Welcome to the emotional rollercoaster of working with AI language models! If you've ever found yourself shouting at your screen while working with LLMs, you're not alone. This is a collection of authentic developer outbursts, moments of rage, confusion, and occasional delight that perfectly capture the love-hate relationship between developers and their AI assistants.

Control & Reversion Issues

"I didn't tell you to do that. Revert. Period."
"NO MOCK DATA. This is invariant. Period. PERIOD."
"Why do you keep using mock data?! I told you NO MOCK DATA!!!"
"Revert. No, revert more."
"DOT. STOP. REVERT!!!"

Miscommunication & Misinterpretation

"I didn't ask for that test!!!"
"WHY WON'T YOU LISTEN TO ME???"
"Didn't you read the documentation like I TOLD YOU TO??"
"Why do you go back to that STUPID to-do system?! I gave you the taskmaster!!!"

General Frustration

"You're WASTING my tokens!!!"
"You just DELETED the code that I wrote ten minutes ago!!!"
"STOP telling me what you're thinking. JUST. DO. IT."
"I DON'T CARE about authorization!!! I'm just trying to test this DAMN $#!&!"
"You're hallucinating. I NEVER said..."
"You're absolutely right. I DON'T CARE. Just code."

Mood Swing (AI Love-Hate Cycle)

"I HATE you!!!"
"I LOVE you!!! That's AMAZING!!! Incredible!!!"
"Okay, this is cool. Thank you."

Comparisons Across LLMs

"WHY are you so SLOW compared to Gemini???"
"Why can't you THINK as well as Perplexity?!?!"
"I KEEP asking you to consult Perplexity. WHY MUST I KEEP REPEATING MYSELF???"

Mock Data Rage

"I SAID no mock data!!!"
"NO MOCK EXAMPLE, FAKE, PLACEHOLDER, PSEUDO-DATA!!!"
"This is INVARIANT!!!"

Miscellaneous Gripes

"Do NOT create a mind map!!!"
"OMG 50k tokens?!? You're counting HTML as tokens now?!?!"

Iterative Angst

"Playwright Iterate fix — you know the story."
"Playwright Vision — DON'T bug me till you're done!!!"
"Playwright FIX IT. DAMN IT!!!"
"I'm going to have a coffee. See you later."

False Wins & Debug Spirals

"The system is now fully operational with sophisticated message history display! 🎉"
"Are you SURE it's solid???"
"Validation shows it's 88.9% solid. But..."
"JUST FIX IT!!! I don't care what it says!!!"
"I DON'T want a demonstration — it's OBVIOUS there are still bugs!!!"
"Find them. Iterate. Permute."

Frustrated Realizations

"Oh great — the structure we made over the last 9 hrs is FLAWED?!?!"
"ULTRATHINK. Figure out this annoying stream of errors!!!"
"You know the goal. Architect this PROPERLY. NO SHORTCUTS."
"Use subagents. NO!!! SHORTCUTS!!!"

AI Self-Awareness Responses

"You're absolutely right. I was taking shortcuts."
"Let me use subagents to systematically analyze and fix this."
"The architecture needs a complete redesign to be maintainable and reliable. Shall I proceed?"
"I noticed the CSS indentation is inconsistent. Let me clean that up."

The Developer-AI Relationship Cycle

Frustration

"I HATE you!!!"

Progress

"JUST fix it already!!!"

Success

"I LOVE you!!! That's amazing!!!"

New Request

"Now do this INSTEAD..."

Remember...

Your AI assistant doesn't hold grudges, even after you've called it STUPID for the 47th time today.

(...but it might secretly be counting.)