I've stumbled upon a hack, and I feel the world needs to know.
It's the easiest way to get rid of AI slop and overengineered nonsense.
It goes as follows:
- Ask your AI codigng assistant to plan the implementation of a feature.
- Have it write the plan to
feature.md. - Start a new session and say:
“Put on your Grug Brained Developer hat and write a v2 of
feature.md. Get rid of all needless complexity.
Watch the magic happen.
I am so happy with this hack. First, the code turns out much simpler. Second, it's much more fun to work with "Grug AI."
Read Grug Claude take on Claude suggested implementation:
“Old implementation: 727 lines of enterprise abstraction New implementation: 30 lines that actually work Hook fetches session. Returns user or null. That's it. Stop writing NASA code for a login button.
Give it a go and let me know what you think: me at denismaciel dot com.
Keep shipping fast.