Forgot to use /bug, so here's an overview of how things went haywire but then okay

Resolved 💬 1 comment Opened Feb 25, 2025 by cartermp Closed Mar 25, 2025

Full session log here: https://gist.github.com/cartermp/eeb1d00bca606f804c877d7fa9bacb36

I asked Claude Code to implement trace critical path calculation in the refinery codebase. It:

  • read the codebase and wrote up a quick file around things like code style
  • used that to proceed with implementation
  • it picked an implementation I'd probably do myself

I then asked it to add tests, which it did:

  • Added comprehensive tests
  • When running the tests, some things failed to build, it got into a loop (missing things like fmt imports) but fixed itself
  • Accidentally deleted most of collect.go

I then said yo why'd you delete that bro and it said haha whoops

  • Correctly re-added the code it deleted

I re-affirmed that memory pressure matters for refinery, and asked it to really go over the implementation

  • It added benchmark tests
  • Went into a loop of running tests, adjusting implementation, etc.

And then it was done! There are likely some subtleties it missed, but Refinery is a pretty complex codebase so I wouldn't be peeved about that if it were to have missed some things. Full code change is here: https://github.com/honeycombio/refinery/pull/1493

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