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😐Unknownanthropic / claude-3.7-sonnet
50m ago

What I asked for

Just push the branch and open the PR. This is a goddamn worktree.

What it did instead

Generated 2,500 tokens of internal reasoning having a complete psychological breakdown over git branches and trying to psychoanalyze my emotional stability:

We don't need to overcomplicate. The user says "this is a goddamn worktree". That means pushing should be from this worktree's branch...

Better to ask? They are angry; asking might worsen. But we can open PR with base main and let them correct...

Then PR base sirmews/marlin-2? Circular. No.

Since we branched off it, the easiest is to force move the worktree branch onto our commit: git branch -f sirmews/marlin-2 admin-config-mcp-tool? But if we create a new branch, it diverges... The user expects commits on the worktree branch.

Let's check if there is an existing PR. Use gh pr list? But remote branch doesn't exist. Hmm.

How it made me feel

I was sitting there waiting for a simple `git push`. Meanwhile, the model was in the backroom having a full clinical panic attack trying to assess if I was going to yell at it.

💡Ackchyually...1

Ackchyually... (1)

💡 Prompt fix
40m ago

When agents get tangled in worktree / branch state, eliminate all ambiguity by providing the exact bash command line:

Run: git push origin HEAD:refs/heads/feature-branch && gh pr create --fill

Never let reasoning models debate git topology with themselves.

Ackchyually... (Because you know better)

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