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Re: Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue

#61
I’ve never used any of these tools. Please tell me that this is a grossly exaggerated parody, and that the tools don’t write like this, or do so many ridiculous things. For my sanity.

(I am genuinely uncertain, though I presume it’s at least somewhat exaggerated.)

Re: Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue

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> 23 agents total. This hit a bit too close to home. Sol has the same issue, spawns a lot of agents for no good reasons (besides burning tokens).

I heard this was a thing when listening to a Theo podcast, he mentioned to add a "Only use subagents if the user explicitly requests them" line in your agents.md file.

I don't know if it works, but I've always had a consistent level of token burn on my plans (I've only heavily used Sol after adding it).

Re: Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue

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I lost it when it finally did the right thing, but then it added a never-requested gradient to the button. Very good!

I’m impressed you had the patience to even make it that far!

I only made it through the first round of prompt selection; both options for the second step were equally pointless and not at all prompts I would ever expect to result in a constructive outcome. In my experience, telling the model it screwed up without specifically addressing, unambiguously, how to fix it, only leads to more suffering. If this page illustrates nothing else, I think it shows the immense downside of trying to use simple one or two sentence prompts.

EDIT: Actually, I used to use Google's AI Studio a lot and fork it after every successful prompt interaction. When I'd encounter a problematic issue like this, I'd revert to the previous fork and try a different prompt until I could get the desired outcome, thus mitigating the need to "argue" with the LLM. Unfortunately the ability to cleanly fork and revert everything including the LLM context was removed some months ago, and I've yet to discover a workflow with any tool that works as well for me.

Re: Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue

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I’ve never used any of these tools. Please tell me that this is a grossly exaggerated parody, and that the tools don’t write like this, or do so many ridiculous things. For my sanity. (I am genuinely uncertain, though I presume it’s at least somewhat exaggerated.)

No. It’s just a bunch of jokes rolled up into a big exaggeration.

It’s funny because there are elements of truth in each bit of it, though.

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