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by cruffle_duffle 5d ago
> Part of intelligence is knowing your audience and communicating efficiently. Bingo! And on this axis many SOTA models fail miserably. These things are acting on my behalf under my direction. All the supposed intelligence in the worl
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by cruffle_duffle 5d ago
I absolutely love when they do that unprompted. I once asked a Claude work agent to go pull comparable apartment listings and somehow it’s subagent reverse engineered like rentcafe or whatever’s private API to get the data. All unprompted.
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by cruffle_duffle 5d ago
> JSON is a bad format/transport. I've cut token counts significantly for some of my MCP servers by returning csv or tabular data or sometimes even just good old fashioned plaintext "template style" words. JSON is hi
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by cruffle_duffle 5d ago
> The statefullness of MCP was such a massive detour for the industry that we will be cleaning up after it for years. I remember discovering this when i wrote my first MCP server. It was like "huh? why would they do that? what use
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by cruffle_duffle 6d ago
Sure but who is reading account numbers off checks? They are copy and pasting from their bank app.
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by cruffle_duffle 7d ago
If the hole in the wall teriyaki restaurant’s menu wasn’t hand painted by Monet I turn right around and walk out. I want nothing to do with an eating establishment that can’t at least spring for a realistic rendition of chicken yakisoba han
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by cruffle_duffle 7d ago
I think this generalizes to a lot of professional work. LLMs are very good at satisfying the requirements you give them. They’re much worse at knowing which requirements should be challenged, reframed, or ignored because you don’t know enou
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by cruffle_duffle 8d ago
Depending on what I’m doing I’ll dedicate a few deep research sessions to building a framework. It will generate some grounding docs that go into the repo and get consumed as we go. Said docs establish terminology, widely known formulas a
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by cruffle_duffle 8d ago
Why? It sounds like a pretty typical workflow to me. It just depends on what you are building. Some things are more more forgiving to muck-ups than others and if the LLM screws the pooch, oh well! Roll forward.
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by cruffle_duffle 8d ago
“There have been sites that blocked the autofilling of passwords and so on as well.” Sites that do this irritate me so much. Ones that try to block pasting and stuff… like somebody intentionally baked that into the site. Who? And what w
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by cruffle_duffle 9d ago
> I do like Claude Code a lot when it comes to pure coding use cases The harness is great, but opus is such an arrogant little prick that spews out unintelligible word salad. Opus 5 is so bad at communication it amazes me that somebody
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by cruffle_duffle 9d ago
"Traditional and boring works for me." I wouldn't call copy & paste code from a webui of chatgpt either traditional or boring. I'd call it tedious, error prone and guaranteed to get poor results. There is much bett
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by cruffle_duffle 10d ago
Then make agent friendly content. Take the text and make a markdown version.
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by cruffle_duffle 10d ago
Dunno why the downvotes. I feel that is reasonable as well. Owners that block that stuff are doing so only to their detriment.
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by cruffle_duffle 12d ago
You’d think that, I thought that… but then I realized I’m just kidding myself thinking its output makes sense. It doesn’t. It doesn’t. Sometimes it might as well just speak tongues. In other words, it ain’t you. It’s the model. It’s just ge
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by cruffle_duffle 13d ago
It’s the same thing with Covid. People thought 1 in 10 people would be dead. And believed it for years, despite it being orders and orders of magnitude wrong. Humans love a good end-of-world story. Always did, always will. It’s when the
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by cruffle_duffle 13d ago
Sorry but… uh… bro. I always wondered if opus 5 was a regression or intentional. I’m seriously thinking it’s actually derived from how people at Anthropic talk. The last people on earth who should be regulating this are governments and te
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by cruffle_duffle 15d ago
Dude, being able to run high quality models locally with cheap hardware can't some soon enough.
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by cruffle_duffle 16d ago
For one thing, it helps clarify my own thinking and uncover any gaps. For two, it lets me peek into its own understanding of the problem and ensure we are both aligned. For three, the garbage I spew at it is usually hastily typed crap from
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by cruffle_duffle 17d ago
"Plus rigorously ensuring backwards compatibility for a project that is 2 hours old and has zero users." That is exactly how the slop accretes and you get a pile of crap. Claude somehow assumes that said 2 hour old userless app i
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by cruffle_duffle 18d ago
"They botched it." <-- sure, but worse.... they shipped it anyway. And that is the part that gets me. It's a vastly worse product than it was on like 4.6. I suppose you can (and should) use opus 4.6 -- they do make it a
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by cruffle_duffle 18d ago
Opus 5 is such a massive regression, I really don't understand how Anthropic green-lit it. It makes me wonder so much about the company. Like, did the people who work there actually have to suffer through it's absolutely unintelli
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by cruffle_duffle 1mo ago
You know… I believe opus saved me with that prompt. I was working myself ragged on a project. Days, nights, weekends… all at the expense of my family. One session while working it, I said a much more expressive form of “I’ve been working
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by cruffle_duffle 2mo ago
Well then ask the LLM to go find and pull its information from primary sources. Don’t ever rely on its own training data.
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by cruffle_duffle 2mo ago
I sometimes feel it isn’t malicious but that they don’t know the number either.
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by cruffle_duffle 2mo ago
Not only that but different countries have code regimes that make more elevators especially expensive. See how building codes in the US basically ensure there are only two real manufacturers in the market vs a healthy ecosystem in others:
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by cruffle_duffle 2mo ago
You should observe if it is the same elevator all the time and the building people just don’t understand it. Our building elevators (bank of 2) always seems to try to keep one in the lobby. About 75% of the time you get an elevator right a
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by cruffle_duffle 2mo ago
The problem is that in the morning the “last stop” for the elevator might be the lobby not a mid floor. And so it would have to move itself back up without any passengers or calls to upper floors. Basically “optimistically” moving itself b
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by cruffle_duffle 2mo ago
If you like elevator hacking don’t forget the seminal DEF CON talk by Deviant Ollam and Howard Payne: https://youtu.be/oHf1vD5_b5I I watch it like once a year because it always tickles some part of me. Like all the differen
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by cruffle_duffle 2mo ago
“ but back then the news was just one or two 30minute blocks on TV and the newspaper.” There was all kinds of quasi-serious news-adjacent crap like 60 minutes, 48 hours, etc. The big difference was none if it was data driven and backed by

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