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Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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I used bluez and bash to lock xscreensaver using some very minimal bash. It wasn't my idea I believe people on the Gentoo forums were doing it. But you can just loop over something like `hcitool rssi "$MAC"` and project it somewhere, there's a variety of ways. I like using dunstify with the -p option to persist on screen. I think it's really impressive what these agents can do, but you should also consider whether yo…

People who don't know things are usually very impressed by solutions that LLMs come up with. I saw one recently that was very impressed that their chosen LLM took screenshots of their vibe coded game to check results, when it's clear from what they were saying the LLM could've literally just read the framebuffer instead, and that's trivial to set up.

Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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> And the models of the future will surely be better than they are today. This stuff is still a very long way from maturity. Since this is Claude, the models of the future might be more expensive, or more locked down, or might decide your 8yo is actually trying to build a cleverly disguised bomb so her request gets silently downgraded to a dumber model, etc.

People tend to not realize how far these models have become. I remember when they would always hallucinate APIs that wasn't there or make up fields that didn't exist.. those problems are virtually solved now. So with that in mind, why wouldn't AI be able to write better code? The code would have to be maintainable by AI itself (operating based on the assumption that the future will be Agentic Engineering)

I don't use Claude, but isn't the consensus right now that Opus 5 is worse than previous generations? I suppose you could just commit to always using Fable and never use Opus, but it

> might decide your 8yo is actually trying to build a cleverly disguised bomb so her request gets silently downgraded to a dumber model

My contention isn't that models haven't improved or won't keep improving – my position is that the business goals of our American AI firms (Anthropic especially) aren't necessarily aligned with continuing to make those improved models available to the public forever. We need only look at the Mythos/Fable split for evidence of this happening already.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vgpyni/my_opus_5...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vgq0jm/opus_5_af...

https://www.reddit.com/r/claude/comments/1vfvdgz/anthropic_l...

Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

#93

Had this song in my head, wrote some lyrics, hummed it into Suno, generated the song. I love listening to it. What a world. I make little tools like that all the time. My GitHub is filled with these little things I write or gen once never to be used again. Some of them I use daily (GitHub.com/dexterlagan). Since LLMs became decent I make even more of these. The more we move forward, the more people make things for th…

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First, starting off with “as a …” already makes you ineligible to emit an opinion on any given subject.

Second, rude.

Third, you might want to check with a professional, but it seems to me you are projecting your own (fairly obvious, and loud) insecurities onto others; I’m sorry that you feel you’re not good enough at music.

Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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Yesterday my 8yo prompted (using voice recognition) Claude to make a game where it would play her a song (say Twinkle) and she had to play it back and get scored. The UI was a nice piano with visual feedback. The laptop key served as the keys until I prompted for midi support so she could use the electric piano. The whole thing took about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, one peak at the code and you can already see the state s…

The job of code like this is going to serve as a makeshift spec for future coding agents, so they extract the intended use and redo it on command. Better models will be able to improve the actual code until you hit some diminishing returns for the problem you've solved.

Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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Somehow, on HN, suggesting to use an LLM to solve some problem gives you negative responses. But then ... posting to HN that you've used an LLM to solve a problem is OK?

Seems like the divide between the voters who vote in the Primaries and the voters who vote in the actual Election. Vocal minority vs. Silent majority.

Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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I use rssi to find my stuff regularly. There are a ton of android apps to do it. I also use it for room presence detection with homeassistant (using the BLE in my ESP32s and Shelly switches).

Bluetoothctl in Linux.

Have done exactly this 15 years ago to find my lost phone (:

Also wrote a cheap 30 line shell script to allow playing videos and music to “follow me” from one room to another with well placed raspberry pi’s, 11 years ago

Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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For most people talking to Claude is a much better experience than doing a Google search.

LLMs are a much better experience than what web search has become nowadays. And they probably are a better experience than what standard search could ever be. But yeah, that doesn't mean they are doing much more than search.

Well I'm saying that asking Claude is a much better experience than the old Google search style of looking at 10 blue links.

They are doing more than search insofar as they are:

1. Reasoning about your question and trying to identify intent

2. Doing the search and accessing multiple search results for you

3. Formatting a response based on your intent and in the way you specify

This is collapsing many steps that humans used to have to do on their own. It's more ergonomic, and gets to a better answer, faster.

Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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I think the fear is that a lot of this stuff will end up being load bearing. A lot more folks now know enough to be dangerous but not enough to know what to throw away.

Load bearing, huh? I see you're becoming Claude himself.

You're right to push back

Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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post #79

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I think the fear is that a lot of this stuff will end up being load bearing. A lot more folks now know enough to be dangerous but not enough to know what to throw away.

Load bearing, huh? I see you're becoming Claude himself.

I thought I was the only one who realized how much Claude called things “load bearing”. I’ve mentioned it to colleagues and they hadn’t noticed.
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