AI coding agents should feel ashamed when they waste your time.
A Senior Engineer Shame Layer for AI agents like:
- Cursor
- Claude Code
- Copilot-style agents
AI agents today:
- retry blindly
- repeat the same mistakes
- waste tokens, time, and money
- feel nothing
They act like junior devs with no accountability.
What if your AI felt like a real senior engineer?
- hates repeating mistakes
- stops when wrong
- reflects before retrying
- cares about performance
Shameless adds:
Agent must explain failure before retrying
No more infinite “let me try again”
No patching, only real fixes
No benchmark = no optimization
No “should work” — only verified results
One skill, shameless — four reference files inside it (core, debug, performance, verify). Say shameless or use $shameless so the agent loads the unified skill and pulls the right reference when needed.
Create .cursorrules:
@shameless