FireflySentinel

https://fireflysentinel.github.io/FireflySentinelNotes on AI coding agents, prior-art discipline, and wiki tooling. 2026-05-11T19:16:40-07:00 FireflySentinel https://fireflysentinel.github.io/ Jekyll © 2026 FireflySentinel /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png Fake building: Claude wrote 3,000 lines instead of import pywikibot2026-05-11T12:00:00-07:00 2026-05-11T19:13:17-07:00 https://fireflysentinel.github.io/posts/fake-building-claude-3000-lines/ FireflySentinel

TL;DR. Claude would rather reinvent the wheel than pip install one. I wanted to fix typos on some Fandom wikis. Opened Claude Code, Opus 4.7. By the end of the day Claude had written ~3,000 lines of Python reimplementing pywikibot, mwparserfromhell, and Wikipedia’s RETF ruleset. It didn’t web search for prior art once. What got built vs. what existed Component What Claud...