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

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Post by nozzlegear »

budsniffer952 wrote: post #105
nozzlegear wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't use Claude, but isn't the consensus right now that Opus 5 is worse than previous generations? I suppose you could just commit to always using Fable and never use Opus, but it > might decide your 8yo is actually trying to build a cleverly disguised bomb so her request gets silently downgraded to a dumber model My contention isn't that models haven't improved or won't keep improving – my position is that the bu…

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> Yeah, the models aren't improving because Reddit told you so

Is that the most charitable interpretation of my comment you could come up with? I don't think you're engaging in good faith.

> the businesses aren't incentivized to make better models

Anthropic and OpenAI are incentivized to pursue regulatory capture. It doesn't take a galaxy-sized brain like mine to understand this.

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

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Post by rjh29 »

amelius wrote: post #87

Somehow, on HN, suggesting to use an LLM to solve some problem gives you negative responses. But then ... posting to HN that you've used an LLM to solve a problem is OK?

Reddit has the same phenomenon where the audience doing the upvotes is very different to the audience posting comments. As I'm in the second group I would love to say it's because people who read comments are smarter than those who just look at the main content. Smarter or not it's a different userbase and it creates some conflict.

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

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Post by richardfey »

deadbabe wrote: post #126
rendaw wrote: post #85

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Suppose she decides from the experience that she likes making games, and wants to expand on it. She wants to support more songs, different types of song sources, colorful animated backgrounds, flashy graphics, change how it scores, a hundred other things. But by the time she gets halfway through it claude just starts getting things wrong and making them worse, and it turns into a nightmare where she doesn't even know…

You could just teach her some real project management skills. Show her how to put together documents and code hygiene rules. Setup some CI/CD pipelines and have sub-agents that can review the code as it gets generated. Introduce her to test driven development.

I think that would spoil a lot of the fun. I would favour visual and audio feedback loops to interactively learn how things work under the hood.

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

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Post by morkalork »

rjh29 wrote: post #142
amelius wrote: post #87

Somehow, on HN, suggesting to use an LLM to solve some problem gives you negative responses. But then ... posting to HN that you've used an LLM to solve a problem is OK?

Reddit has the same phenomenon where the audience doing the upvotes is very different to the audience posting comments. As I'm in the second group I would love to say it's because people who read comments are smarter than those who just look at the main content. Smarter or not it's a different userbase and it creates some conflict.

r/museum and all the softcore porn

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

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Post by morkalork »

Dig1t wrote: post #68
2398aG wrote: post #62

OP works at a robotics company, hence the inability to use Google search and "git clone" to find dozens of ready made apps, some of them years old.

For most people talking to Claude is a much better experience than doing a Google search.

Until they inevitably shit it up. To be apples to apples, gotta compare to peak google era

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

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Post by bestham »

toast0 wrote: post #138
gitowiec wrote: post #107

I have a bad Ethernet cables through unused chimney from my apartament to the basement. The workers I asked to pull it just did it brute force and 2 of pairs are broken. When I was chatting with Claude to see if I can use it somehow to send Ethernet packets one of the Claude responses was to use broken cables as a pilot to pull fiber channel!

You can run 100mbps with only two pair, if you have something on at least one end which you can tell to only negotiate to 100.

This is true. But you can also run gigabit ethernet over a single pair (1000BASE-T1) often called SPE. The transceivers are more expansive than normal four pair gigabit and the official cable requirement is Cat6A but even if the headroom is lower it will work on lesser Cat levels.

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

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Post by nozzlegear »

fryanyway_swe wrote: post #131
nozzlegear wrote: post #39

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> And the models of the future will surely be better than they are today. This stuff is still a very long way from maturity. Since this is Claude, the models of the future might be more expensive, or more locked down, or might decide your 8yo is actually trying to build a cleverly disguised bomb so her request gets silently downgraded to a dumber model, etc.

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I think the ancient Greek philosophers already studied this thousands of years ago, they even came up with a term for it: "debate."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate

> In a debate, arguments are put forward for opposing viewpoints. Historically, debates have occurred in public meetings, academic institutions, debate halls, coffeehouses, competitions, and legislative assemblies. Debates have also been conducted for educational and recreational purposes, usually associated with educational establishments and debating societies. These debates emphasize logical consistency, factual accuracy, and emotional appeal to an audience. [...] The term "debate" may also apply to a more continuous, inclusive, and less formalized process through which issues are explored and resolved across a range of agencies and among the general public.

tl;dr deal with it

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

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Post by fryanyway_swe »

nozzlegear wrote: post #147
fryanyway_swe wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I think the ancient Greek philosophers already studied this thousands of years ago, they even came up with a term for it: "debate." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate > In a debate, arguments are put forward for opposing viewpoints. Historically, debates have occurred in public meetings, academic institutions, debate halls, coffeehouses, competitions, and legislative assemblies. Debates have also been conducted for…

They have 0 sources and acting in bad faith.
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