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I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

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Re: I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

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Post by sleight42 »

_the_inflator wrote: post #177
cromka wrote: post #168

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I was incredibly surprised how much better was Astra at rephrasing the docs that Fable came up for a project I am about to publish. The instructions are now actually what a human would expect, with clear logic flow diagrams, lists itemized, short paragraphs. It also actually correctly detected the train-of-thought leftovers, as well as stuff that never made it to final version of the project and removed them. Meanwhi…

Maybe check in the other direction as well: Astra to Fable. I frequently simply let one of the three review what something that looks like awesome output by one AI gets totally annihilated by the other. Finished outputs are easier to improve than bend a LLM to produce stuff like that in my observation. Same with Gemini. I yet have to find out how to handle this, whether I let agents check themselves and if on what pr…

I've had Claude review output from Qwen3.8-27b. Claude negged it! Said it was hallucinating!

27b may be small but it seems competent most of the time.

Re: I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

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Post by sleight42 »

bgilroy26 wrote: post #83
jp57 wrote: post #71

Let's face it. Claude (in particular) is a terrible writer. There's a whole cottage industry of skills and CLAUDE.md instructions trying to push it toward writing better, but each new model iteration seems expressly designed to override all that so that it can load up its writing with unnecessary participle phrases, not-this-but-thats, burying the lede, and other nonsense. I genuinely wonder if the people inside Anth…

You've identified a load-bearing problem and it's worth naming

If I read "load-bearing", "pin", "wedge", "rung", or "it's worse than what I'd previously stated" one more fucking time from Opus...

Re: I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

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Post by nate »

I've installed multiple of these skills. but it seems to quickly revert to crappy writing. i've tried the adhd. the brain fried at the end of day. the "Concise" output from the harness itself. the most useful fix to me has been yelling at it "Speak English!! No jargon!!!" it goes back to more concise talking for a little while.

Fable 5.1 is better at this so far though. :(

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Post by kulahan »

hk1337 wrote: post #13

> A skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer This is just an annoying thing for anyone. It gives a 10 page dissertation that sums up to, "it's good, nothing to worry about".

I'm not paying for it, so when they get wordy and stupid, I just respond with something akin to "turn that response into like half a paragraph."

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Post by noumenon1111 »

mattjoyce wrote: post #169
jmartrican wrote: post #133

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I imagine Claudisms might make it into human-speak.

You're absolutely right.

You've found the load-bearing seam, and my explanation was worse than it actually is.

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Post by Dylan16807 »

kdkdkwndjekd wrote: post #192
Dylan16807 wrote: post #187

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What do you want it to use instead? "I" is normally used for everything. You could be writing from the perspective of a slab of concrete and you'd use "I".

I want it to use nothing. Use impersonal statements. Say “X was changed for Y” not “I changed X for Y”. As any tool would. Finder doesn’t ask “Do you want ME to delete this file?”. Photoshop doesn’t ask “Do you want ME to save this file?”. Claude shouldn’t assume itself to be a person either. > You could be writing from the perspective of a slab of concrete and you'd use "I". Except this isn’t prose. Claude is not te…

Yeah okay, but if you want no pronouns at all then I think your comparison to "it" just confuses the issue. In the contexts where you would use "it", the "it" should use "I".

But I don't think I share your preference either. It's a lot easier to talk about what I decided to do and what the machine 'decided' to do if we attach pronouns. "X was changed" can be too vague.

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Post by HeWhoLurksLate »

jp57 wrote: post #129
kovacs wrote: post #101

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I can't take it anymore. I moved to Codex. I refer to "him" as Claude Shakespeare now... I wonder what he'd say if he knew my switch... Et tu, Brute?

This is insulting to Shakespeare.

and to monkeys with typewriters

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Post by crisnoble »

mcv wrote: post #197
vzmax wrote: post #161

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You can't trust it's account on why it did something, it does not "remember". It will just make up something plausible sounding.

To me it explained its inability to follow my preferred coding style by blaming its training data.

Sounds plausible.
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