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by whstl 4mo ago
Yep haha. This happens quite frequently in HN, the famous [citation needed], so it might have been trained with data from here :/
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by whstl 4mo ago
I don't have it. I did it at work during lunch a few days ago so it's in incognito mode to not pollute the chats. I thought nothing of it until I saw this discussion, so I saw no reason to save/screenshot. It's ok if you
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by whstl 4mo ago
> Or the training pushes it into the "Google it yourself" annoyed forum user mode Yes! Another crazy thing Claude has been doing recently is treating things like a quiz. I recently asked about a "90s film that has sepia
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by whstl 4mo ago
Checkmate!!!
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by whstl 4mo ago
I don't think that's a problem here at all. The problem here is not doing tasks and outputting garbage output.
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by whstl 4mo ago
I swear I'm real :) On the other hand, that's what a machine would say!
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by whstl 4mo ago
+1. It's the most effective way. It often start going into circles when you have the chat open for medium-long, and starts getting even easily-verifiable tasks wrong, cutting corners, hallucinating APIs, things like that. Cleaning the
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by whstl 4mo ago
Haha! I never considered the above message was parody, but it indeed mirrored that interaction perfectly!
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by whstl 4mo ago
We can agree that it's not working! :D
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by whstl 4mo ago
I've already given enough. I'm not gonna argue if you doubt it, I've been training argument dodging :)
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by whstl 4mo ago
It's incredibly funny that a large chunk of the messages here are "you need to argue or you're doing it wrong" and another large chunk is "I stopped reading, OP is an idiot for arguing" . People are polarise
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by whstl 4mo ago
Exactly that. I provided a question, and when given an incomplete answer, I provided with more info. It refused to accept the additional info due to limited access to Youtube. There was nothing more than that. There were no expectations. Th
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by whstl 4mo ago
That's vanilla claude.com, without memory or custom prompt. I use another service for coding. It's interesting how my experience there is mirrored by the answers here, though!!!
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by whstl 4mo ago
You seem to be making a lot of assumptions about how I interacted in the messages to Claude. You also seem to be making a lot of assumptions about my understanding of the models, especially considering I just told a story :) I never said an
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by whstl 4mo ago
I never said otherwise? The point of the article stands: if providing more info than the model can access causes it to turn argumentative and refuse to comply, then it's a worse performance and a waste of money.
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by whstl 4mo ago
I don't see how this has anything to do with my answer, but ok?
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by whstl 4mo ago
Exactly that. I can give an example. After watching Legal Eagle, I asked a legal-ish questions about the Bricks and Minifigs case. Claude was outdated about the case and gave me some outdated info, so I tried to update it with the info I ju
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by whstl 4mo ago
Yep, someone points it to GP down below. One needs to apply for immigration again in the next country if they want to travel for more than a vacation.
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by whstl 4mo ago
I believe the point was more that Germany can accept lots of immigrants being a large country, and freedom of movement will allow them inside all countries, which can lead to backlash.
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by whstl 4mo ago
Another productivity boost I'm seeing is from $COMPANY is asking devs to let AI do the design, instead of having a designer do it. I have a dirty secret: I do the design myself. Productivity gains are still there. People are amazed at
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by whstl 4mo ago
In some cases there's also no preparation or verification happening at all, which massively inflates the productivity gains of AI. Lots of VCs and investors asking companies to move into "trust the AI" mode. I once consulted
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by whstl 4mo ago
Sure but if PRs get rejected, nobody has to "tidy upp (sic) later". That's not prolific, that's just producing slop, with AI otherwise. I'm just tired of developers pretending that low output is some sort of silver
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by whstl 4mo ago
It could also potentially be that GP is making atomic PRs, while everyone else is just making 5000-line PRs with multiple responsibilities that just gets merged with "LGTM". But of course HN has to with the most uncharitable inter
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by whstl 4mo ago
That's such bullshit. I've managed some incredibly prolific developers and some very slow ones, and the prolific ones are pretty much always the ones more available, more willing to fix things, more willing to take feedback. And a
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by whstl 4mo ago
Different people just have different concepts of what's garbage and what's not. There seems to be some kind of AI hysteria going on, with people becoming so enamoured with the AI that they accept anything it produces as if it&#x27
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by whstl 4mo ago
Astro itself uses React. It can use other libraries with it too, or just plain HTML, but it’s not in the same space. React can’t work on the backend by itself without Astro, Next.js, etc, or some hand-made micro-framework.
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by whstl 4mo ago
Yep. It’s also an attitude problem. A lot of devs are able to up-skill just fine, but some are downright demeaning towards anything they don’t understand, or towards anything that doesn’t come from a FAANG. “HTML only? Nobody is doing it!”
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by whstl 4mo ago
Small correction: it's other frameworks that require you to opt-out, most notably Next.js. Although I've been seeing so many people confusing Next.js with React lately... Astro itself works just fine with React, and it can still b
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by whstl 4mo ago
> give a craftsman terrible tools, and they'll still produce a decent end result This is an absurd statement. Just because something is a proverb, doesn't mean it's automatically true for all cases.
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by whstl 4mo ago
Yep. And there were previews of that 10+ years ago already with content farms and SEO-spam.

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