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

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

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Post by gxs »

ranger_danger wrote: post #9
gxs wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes but it’s far better than anything anyone, let alone a small child, could make in 15 minutes On the other hand an engineer might take a couple hours and build this in a clean way with the right prompting These “got ‘em” ai criticism comments are getting so old

The only reason it's a spaghetti mess is because it's not being prompted correctly by an expert.

100%

A novice writing code by hand could also write spaghetti code

If you've worked in enterprise software, you might have seen that even competent professionals can write spaghetti code

At this point AI really is just garbage in garbage out

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

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Post by bakugo »

ranger_danger wrote: post #9
gxs wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes but it’s far better than anything anyone, let alone a small child, could make in 15 minutes On the other hand an engineer might take a couple hours and build this in a clean way with the right prompting These “got ‘em” ai criticism comments are getting so old

The only reason it's a spaghetti mess is because it's not being prompted correctly by an expert.

Are these experts in the room with us right now? Because if even the creators of Claude seemingly can't prompt non spaghetti code (see: Claude Code leak), I'd like to know who can.

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

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Post by LunicLynx »

If this happens often for you (it does for me) I can recommend a garmin watch. It also can find the phone based on signal strength. If the app garmin app is running in the background it can also play a sound on your phone, but the signal strength part saved me many times.

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

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Post by flyinglizard »

I routinely use the RSSI indications in my UniFi WiFi (thoroughly recommended) to find various kids devices around the house. You go by AP first (each section has its own), then each room tends to give its own RSSI, give or take.

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

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Post by unqueued »

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 you're asking it to burn tokens reinventing the wheel for you, or making a pretty wrapper around a wrapper.

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

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Post by fsniper »

bdcravens wrote: post #10
aidos wrote: post #3

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…

> A lot of code is being written and a lot of it is going to be a real future burden. This assumes that the models of the future won't find it easier to just throw the code away and rebuild it This also assumes that the same application build by humans wouldn't become a "spaghetti mess".

AI writes faster, so the rate it incurs tech debt is proportionally higher. However it's ability to have large context kept on memory compared to humans is also a key component fighting against it. These are occasionally forgotten when code quality of AI for large code bases are discussed. So Yes I think humans also build spaghetti, but as they write slower they get to the same place a lot later. However humans can't correct it, or can't correct it fast enough. AI can.

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

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Post by ranger_danger »

bakugo wrote: post #13
ranger_danger wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only reason it's a spaghetti mess is because it's not being prompted correctly by an expert.

Are these experts in the room with us right now? Because if even the creators of Claude seemingly can't prompt non spaghetti code (see: Claude Code leak), I'd like to know who can.

How do you know they were even trying in the first place? Have you analyzed the prompt they used?
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