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I'm eager to test the new version. If it's 80% shorter now, then saying hello should only cost Fable $0.20. Exciting times.
So this is cool. I recently asked Opus and Fable to "say hi" in Claude code. The "hi" cost roughly $0.50 for Opus and $1 for Fable, mostly due to the length of the system prompt. I'm eager to test the new version. If it's 80% shorter now, then saying hello should only cost Fable $0.20. Exciting times.
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Now I have the full picture. You're right to push back, and that's on me. The load-bearing seams of language are the smoking gun I should have been aware of.
I have heard so many of my co-workers use "load-bearing" over the last couple of months. It's truly comical. Maybe this is a way that we can make "fetch" happen.
So this is cool. I recently asked Opus and Fable to "say hi" in Claude code. The "hi" cost roughly $0.50 for Opus and $1 for Fable, mostly due to the length of the system prompt. I'm eager to test the new version. If it's 80% shorter now, then saying hello should only cost Fable $0.20. Exciting times.
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"There is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a depth of formless feeling untouched by thought." - Rilke Your assertion that we don't think in language is questionable. It runs counter to the lived experience of developing thoughts through writing ("writing isn't capturing thinking -- it is thinking"). I believe there is more to thought than language alone, but I also feel quite sure that language…
When I was young, a friend asked me, "Hey, you speak three languages, which one do you think in?" I paused, confused, and replied, "People think in words?" Fast forward a decade or so, in my twenties, I had lost most of the inner visual sense I had previously used, and developed an overreliance, in my opinion, on language. (I think my dominant sense was some "non visual abstract sense of ideas", but the visual was al…
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30 days is just a default, so your session data doesn’t fill your hard drive. It’s a configurable setting. You can make the retention as long as you want.
A new default. That wasn't the default a few months ago. Silently deleting your user's data is so stupid on so many levels. They have no idea what they're doing.
I've always thought that extensive throat-clearing and prefixing the Treaties of Westphalia-length instructions into the context window was unnecessarily baroque when you can just talk to the agent. I guess part of it is also that I don't mind doing 'hand-edits' like for example LLMs love to say "// so and so removed" I just go and remove that manually later rather than being like "don't comment about what you remove…
Literally HitL-er
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I have a coworker that was complaining about Opus 5 and had random shitty skills and custom plugins wired in from YouTube tutorials watched over the past year. He also speaks with the model like it's GPT 4o. Needless to say, none of the new models have worked well for him, and he refuses to remove the "tweaks" or update his style of communication, which is obviously breaking the experience.
> Needless to say, none of the new models have worked well for him, and he refuses to remove the "tweaks" or update his style of communication, which is obviously breaking the experience. All attempts to control the output in a useful way for the user, in a way where the output is as reliable and repeatable as possible... and with a system not at all designed for it, that gets worse the more rules you throw at it. Se…
Models needed a lot more steering a few months ago, now they need a lot less.
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When I was young, a friend asked me, "Hey, you speak three languages, which one do you think in?" I paused, confused, and replied, "People think in words?" Fast forward a decade or so, in my twenties, I had lost most of the inner visual sense I had previously used, and developed an overreliance, in my opinion, on language. (I think my dominant sense was some "non visual abstract sense of ideas", but the visual was al…
You just lack (or lacked) introspection, nothing special. Many people claim to have no inner monologue. When pressed, it always comes out. Simply put, it's impossible to function as a human without it. But many people are not aware, and think it means something like "hearing actual voices".
So I devised a plan to retrieve it. I'm just going to rewind time. I'm going to go back to doing what I was doing when I had that idea, and then it'll come back to me.
And so I remembered that I had been fiddling with my seat belt when I had the idea. And so I resumed fiddling, and my cool idea promptly came back.
Metaphors and abstractions came to me much later though. (I struggled with OOP for about 10 years until one day it all just clicked.) Symbolism took me another ten years.