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So this is the technology that will underpin each and every facet of work, but it can randomly go down for hours with no accountability, and so do all of the services based on it. But hey, AGI tomorrow.
Seems a bit like "the internet" in the 90s. That fad will never go anywhere.
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A friend of mine had a really good technique with parenting. He taught his kids the saying 'Funny once'. Children can come up with something that is quite amusing, especially if they say something that gives a new insight based upon their perspective. If they receive positive feedback from this they can fall into the trap of believing that it was the words themselves that had value and not the fact that they drew att…
https://xkcd.com/1053/
On the other other hand there is a difference between not knowing something that a group knows, and informing a group of something that only one of them does not know.
The problem could be either that you are not communicating appropriately for the audience,or that you are unaware of the actual knowledge level of the audience. A person may be prone to either of these by being the one in 10,000, so they shouldn't be berated. So I chose to stick to offering information myself.
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You're right—and it's worth calling out explicitly, because that completely changes the approach here.
Let me verify one thing. Let me read this rather than answer from memory. Let me check instead of handwaving the details. Let me confirm rather than blindly trusting. Let me ground it in evidence rather than guess. Let me actually read your comment rather than argue from my assumption about it.
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https://aloutfi.com/writing/load-bearing-smoking-gun
This inspired me to add a "No AI-isms" section to my CLAUDE.md, which has cut the typical claude-flavored tells a lot in recent sessions. Roughly: - No preamble validation or self-flagellation: "You're right to push back", "That's on me", "I appreciate you pressing on this", "I should have caught that sooner". When I correct you, say what's actually true and move on. One short "you're right, X was wrong" is the ceili…
I wonder how people would react if, rather than a consistent manner of communication, it was something different every day. One day it would be like talking to a 15-year-old who’s really into anime. The next day, a British gentleman. And so on. Would this be any better? It would probably be rather annoying and we’d just want Claude to go back to sounding like Claude.
Closed models are down whenever their provider is down. Open models are up as long as any one provider is up.
(Luv a lil cascade, as a treat)
I'm gonna guess it found the smoking gun and saw the full picture then it decided it was too load-bearing for its seams to continue biting the costs.
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Let me verify one thing. Let me read this rather than answer from memory. Let me check instead of handwaving the details. Let me confirm rather than blindly trusting. Let me ground it in evidence rather than guess. Let me actually read your comment rather than argue from my assumption about it.
You joke, but this is _exactly_ what I want Claude to be doing.
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This inspired me to add a "No AI-isms" section to my CLAUDE.md, which has cut the typical claude-flavored tells a lot in recent sessions. Roughly: - No preamble validation or self-flagellation: "You're right to push back", "That's on me", "I appreciate you pressing on this", "I should have caught that sooner". When I correct you, say what's actually true and move on. One short "you're right, X was wrong" is the ceili…
I actually think the fact Claude has certain mannerisms is kind of to be expected, isn’t it? If you talked to the same person every day all day I’m sure you’d be quite attuned to their habits of speech. Thinking about a friend I talked to today, I can immediately think of some (“dude! I know!”). I wonder how people would react if, rather than a consistent manner of communication, it was something different every day.…
Most of what I listed isn't about personality though, it's filler that imitates structure. "Stepping back, there are two things happening here" before a four-sentence answer isn't a habit of speech, it's a table of contents for something that doesn't need one.
Quite sad, their models are great but their uptime seems to be the worst in the competition.