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This "slot machine" metaphor is played out. If you're just entering a coin's worth of information and nudging it over and over in the hopes of getting something
by bensyverson 7mo ago
This "slot machine" metaphor is played out. If you're just entering a coin's worth of information and nudging it over and over in the hopes of getting something good, that's a you problem, not a Claude problem.
If, on the other hand, you treat it like a hyper-competent collaborator, and follow good project management and development practices, you're golden.
- rustyhancock 7mo agoLife is full of variable reward schemes. Probably why we evolved to be so enamoured by them. In a healthy environment. We are harmed more by being totally risk adverse. Than by accepting risk as part of life and work.
- james2doyle 7mo ago_hyper-competent collaborator who may completely make things up occasionally and will sometimes give different answers to the same question*_
- bensyverson 7mo agoSo, indistinguishable from a human then
- bigstrat2003 7mo agoNo. A competent human doesn't make things up, he admits ignorance. He also only very rarely changes answers he previously gave.
- ctoth 7mo ago> If, on the other hand, you treat it like a hyper-competent collaborator, and follow good project management and development practices, you're golden. I am consistently using 100% of my weekly $200 max plan. I know how this thing works, I know how to get value out of it, and I wish what you said were true. If you do all of these things? You are in a better spot. You are in a far better spot than if you hadn't! Setting up hooks to ensure notes get written? Massive win! Red-green TDD? Yes, please! But in terms of just ... well, being able to rely on the damn thing? https://github.com/ctoth/claude-failures https://github.com/ctoth/claude-failures
- bensyverson 7mo ago[dead]