A developer shares an amusing experience using Claude Opus 4.6 via GitHub Copilot in GoLand to debug a GoAWK bug. While the AI correctly diagnosed the issue (special variables stored as native Go ints losing string representation), it then flip-flopped between 7 different fix options 25 times over several minutes, repeatedly saying 'Actually, the simplest fix...' before changing course. The correct fix (Option B: store special variables as value type) was proposed most often but the agent never committed to it, eventually losing track of its own edits before being cancelled. The author reflects on how LLMs lack a clear stopping condition.
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