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AKA - Slop... It's a brand new form of bullshit.
For me it was right at the beginning. They said it was a dungeon game. It would describe a room, etc, and I would take some action. But I thought that this dungeon was built in some intricate database. But then I told it that I wanted to leave, got to an inn, where I flirted with the bar waitress, and soon we were watching the sunset in some meadow. As cheesy as that was, it was then that I went "oh shit" this is a m…
[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/textworld
First uptick for my own usage was copying in a ~800 line rust file into ChatGPT before agentic was a thing and having it rewrite it for clarity and thinking: "Yeah, this is actually a genuine improvement I'd want for all my files".
As a tidbit for posterity. The most basic thing an LLM does is find a word or name that best matches an idea so - while there are going to be some incestuous problems down the line - we're going to have to explain to juniors that we had weird problems like: "You had to come up with a name for a variable". Nowadays, I only occasional prompt that some struct/function name needs to be renamed and choose the best of the options it generates.
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There used to be 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. Now its just the 1.
I was having problems getting it to parse my speech correctly when I was asking about "autolyse" (I was attempting to bake bread). All I had to do to fix it was add this to the system prompt: " I primarily interact with you via a speech to text mechanism. You should consider ways in which my words may not be accurately transcribed and attempt to infer the correct reading in context. When you do this, do not mention it - just proceed as if my words were recorded properly."
Never had that problem again. With Assistant though, if I had any issue like that I'd be waiting months or years for a fix, if it ever came.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Claude walked me through examining the some of the original software in GHIDRA, I wanted to be able to decrypt the files on The Complete New Yorker magazine DVDs. The old software was WinXP only, and crashed by the time you turned to page 3 or 4. It walked me through using Ghidra on the relevant dll, mapped out how it was using Blowfish, what the credentials were that it was passing, and re-implemented all of that i…
What was your setup for this and did you have any preferences set in Claude to get started with something like this?
The dll in question was pretty obvious just from the filename alone that it was where the magic happened.
If you want something similar, you might just start by asking it if it would be feasible to decompile the software in question to reverse engineer the decryption, that you'd heard Ghidra was a big deal. Keep nudging it to guide you along that sort of path.
I like the turn of phrase and understand it may be more of a poetic throwaway but I remain a bit uncertain as to what they had in mind.