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It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI

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Re: It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI

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i've been dabbling with various assistant models and instances and find that there's an interesting "idea" that pops up from their synthesis and relevancy analysis at a decent frequency. some kind of "inverse prompting" in which the machine has an angle, perspective, opportunity (based on the context it's working with/in) and the human turns those seedlings into something useful... or else decides its weed to be disc…

The prompter becomes the prompted!

Re: It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI

#23
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably good to establish canonical spec documents up front that it can use and maintain as an independent reference?

Doesn't need to be "up front", but you do need to curate the context. AI can't read your mind, and it will read what you (or anyone else) wrote.

Humans can’t read minds either, but most humans aren’t so dumb as to forget what is a normative spec and what is just their own current, evolving model of the problem space. (Though some humans certainly are…)

Re: It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI

#24
post #10

What am I even here for if not to have my own ideas?

That's for you to find out. When we automated muscles in the industrial revolution, people used to value strength. Today they value thought. They may value something else in the future.

Re: It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI

#25
post #3

I have this problem even in codebases. Claude will work on something, and add detailed comments in which it extrapolates the from the design and confidently states intentions and decisions which aren't actually grounded in reality. Then, later sessions suffer when it reads back those hallucinations and treats them as canonical.

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> what the fuck is wrong with all of you?

They spent 3 years pretending that their magic robot made them 10x harder/better/faster/stronger than the lazy peons rubbing shoulders with them and now the bill has come due.

Re: It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI

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post #3

I have this problem even in codebases. Claude will work on something, and add detailed comments in which it extrapolates the from the design and confidently states intentions and decisions which aren't actually grounded in reality. Then, later sessions suffer when it reads back those hallucinations and treats them as canonical.

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Re: It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI

#28
post #10

What am I even here for if not to have my own ideas?

That's for you to find out. When we automated muscles in the industrial revolution, people used to value strength. Today they value thought. They may value something else in the future.

Seems like the only thing left to value will be social capital. If all forms of labor are free, the only thing that matters is how many people you know, what they think of you, whether they listen to you.
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