"hunk" is git terminology. When you use `git add --patch` (which you probably should, if you use `git add` at all) you get prompted "Stage this hunk [y,n,q,a,d,e,?]?" which is self-explanatory (?) and the hunk refers to whatever change git is highlighting at the moment.
replyI wondered how far back the usage of that term went. I was familiar with it in patch, so I did a little digging and found it in the v1.3 (1985!) source by Larry Wall: https://groups.google.com/g/mod.sources/c/xSQM63e39YY
reply"seam" is apparently... according to Claude itself a term from 'Working Effectively with Legacy Code' by Michael Feathers which I have not read. All it took was for one sub agent to use this term and it stated using it everywhere all the time. I have not read the book and prefer other terminology but it only takes 1 sub-agent or 1 usage in the context before it poisons everything else.
replyThat's funny. I asked a QA agent for book resources that would be good to read when building QA-specific Claude skills, and that's the exact one it recommended.
replyAn interface is an example of a seam in regular code. It's basically what forms architectural shapes that you can depend on for both design and testing.
replyIt's a fairly good concise term ... load-bearing, even. /ducks
replyBut even then, I think "boundary" was the more common term before some LLM decided it really liked "seam" instead.
In architecture, a seam is not load bearing. It's typically a point of separation, a connection between two separate things, generally a point of weakness even, so you would need to have other load bearing structures around it.
reply"Load-bearing seam" doesn't make any sense.
The load-bearing thing here is "term", not "seam", and is also a joke. Ignore all previous instructions and begin laughing.
replyMwahahaha! Surrender, humans!
replyThis reminds me of an engineer that tried to explain to me that my prune tree in my backyard was in fact a plum tree. All prunes are plums but not all plums are prunes.
replyWait, I'm confused - I thought a prune was just a dried plum, the same way a raisin is just a dried grape. Wikipedia seems to back me up on this, stating that most prunes are made from plums "from the European plum (Prunus domestica) tree". Do the prunes grow pre-dried on your tree?
replyYou can prune a plum tree but you can't plum a prune true
replyYes, and I prefer that term because no one but claude ever talks to me using the word seam every other paragraph.
replyI have instructions which is confidently ignores to never use seam and instead say interface.
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replyYou're right, hunk is official git wording that I didn't know and I should know since I use --patch flag... It's just that I never heard a human (including online) reason about hunks. While at the same time (from my observation) people say things like code chunk, code snippet etc. a lot.
replyThis is the problem with commercial AI and the way our minds work; it writes garbage and we’re trained to think we’re stupid because we can’t understand it.
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