Does it really need that many files?
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
#392Earlier quoted context omitted.
It helps to understand how these tools work. One of the reasons CLAUDE.md doesn't survive longer contexts is it's towards the top of the context. One of the reasons the Claude Code voice survives is it's part of the output style which gets "reminded" to the context at every turn as part of the system context. If you want something truly durable, you should customize your output style. I have zero "load-bearing" issue…
I could also replace the system prompt (eg using a different harness) to achieve a similar result yes?
Yes. Especially if that harness also has the "reminder" capability to keep important rules closer to the front of the context.
Re: I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
#393Earlier quoted context omitted.
100% sentences like i convinced it or made it admit are just weird But how else to describe the situation
there is an established term for this behaviour: hallucination. lets me rephrase what i said before as on retrospection the point i was trying to make didnt come across: Asking the model such as question is a pointless endeavor. It will pretty much always answer in a plausible sounding manner to whatever question you gave it. Its like another top HN story - an opus5 parody site right now, https://opusfived.dev/ prett…
"Asking the model such as question is a pointless endeavor."
It used a medical term that is not an actual term. I asked it to explain how and why it would do this, having a rudimentary understanding of the technology. I learned the technical reason. How is that a pointless endeavour to learn more about the tool I was using?
Using a term like "admit" assumes the reader (on a technical site) understands the context and what is being suggested. A bit like someone saying, "The landscape spoke to me." I don't reply to the landscape architect and say "Mate, the landscape can't actually speak" because I understand the sentiment and getting pedantic is pointless in that moment.
Re: I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
#394Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is this a troll post? Claude is not "programmed" at all.
That's fairly obtuse. Sure, the actual weights from the model aren't 'programmed', but the mlops harness to load the weights and handle model io are. The harness that wraps the model to give it basic tools sure is. The Claude desktop and web clients sure are. Claude Codex sure is. On it's own a model is just an inert set of data structures.
It's a stretch to compare LLM training/inference to "programming".
Also you're totally missing the point. the parent poster's account (with the gibberish name) was minutes old at the time of my post.
Re: I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
#395The biggest "Claudism" that I have a hard time getting the LLM to stop doing is its insistence on talking about what it didn't do in addition to what it did. "I edited this.py and that.py but I did not edit README.md and I did not commit." or code comments like "This code invokes foo on bar and returns the results directly -- not through a callback." "This code returns true if the user clicked on a button -- not on t…
Personally I've found the opposite useful - I mostly use OAI models with OMP harness and I have a rule instructing it to summarize if any work was omitted or if it made any surprising changes. Sometimes the agent will forget to do some piece of work or invent a new bizarre way of doing things, but quite often it is able to self reflect on this at the end of the session.
Re: I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
#396Earlier quoted context omitted.
there is an established term for this behaviour: hallucination. lets me rephrase what i said before as on retrospection the point i was trying to make didnt come across: Asking the model such as question is a pointless endeavor. It will pretty much always answer in a plausible sounding manner to whatever question you gave it. Its like another top HN story - an opus5 parody site right now, https://opusfived.dev/ prett…
"Asking the model such as question is a pointless endeavor." It used a medical term that is not an actual term. I asked it to explain how and why it would do this, having a rudimentary understanding of the technology. I learned the technical reason. How is that a pointless endeavour to learn more about the tool I was using? Using a term like "admit" assumes the reader (on a technical site) understands the context and…
The word "admit" conveys a context of "fault". If you're going to say a similar thing about the landscape admitting to something then I'd be callimg you crazy, yeah.
The ai psychosis in this case it's specifically because of the used word. Same story as with words like "love" etc
> Confess or acknowledge: Agreeing that a fact, mistake, or crime is real.
And I can see were really barreling down the road of stupidity on this comment chain with one person being more idiotic then the next