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It seems like theyd have incentive to

Any universal system would. The problem is there isnt a universal system.

A tabletop adventure game generator. Instead of tediously rolling for disconnected content in limited ways (enemy to fight, loot after fight, etc), you generate an adventure and pr…

Seems reliable and effective

Half of women leave by age 35. How many men leave by age 35? Whats the baseline? Why doesn’t the article state this? Is 50% low?

Countries have militaries.

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Except pushing it to the logical extreme is what makes it wrong. Nevermind that he literally was equating the two and explicitly says so.

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It also says they declined to say how many the US has left. And saying “person familiar with the matter” is doing a lot of work. It could be anyone with no direct information. This…

One begins by looking at the sources which the article dies not substantiate.

With stories like this you always have to ask “Who are the sources?” “People who are familiar with this matter” is doing a lot of work. This reeks of laundering lies.

Who is more productive? A python dev who learns about x86 registers in his free time or one that uses AI at work?

Learn what? The thing the tool can do instantly? Take the win and spend your energy on bigger problems.

Why do you think thats worth learning? Doing a few times manually sure… but to force yourself to solely rely on it is foolish. Just use the calculator.

For many cases like the one described, its true.

Yes. And all the “context engineering”, document/decision frameworks etc just make it way harder to work with the ai. You put in a lot of work just for an illusion of control.

No because the CLAUDE.md is included in the first prompt which is given priority in the context. On prompt 20, it will remember message 1 better than message 12.

Did it ever tell you not to optimize what you should redesign?

Quite literally the most authentic version. Not my preference but it’s the canonical form.

But Warsh wants to unload the Feds balance sheet so this is very much in agreement with his policy.

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How is this different than creating a feature branch off main then branching off that?

This is not what the article is talking about. Its talking about policy documents not it forgetting something 5 prompts ago. In fact you adding things to CLAUDE.md is more what its…

In my experience, the more structure you enforce on models, the worse they perform and the less they actually do what you want.