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Post by Smaug123 »

harrisi wrote: post #138
crazygringo wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If a company makes a significantly better model, shouldn't it be able to explain how it's better to any competitor? No. Not if it's not trained on any materials that reveal the secret sauce on why it's better. LLM's don't possess introspection into their own training process or architecture.

That's my point. Anything that could exist that's significantly "better" would be able to share more about its creation. And anything that could be significantly better would have to be capable of "understanding" things it wasn't trained on.

Could you share anything about your creation, without having been to school where we taught you what the answers were? Can you deduce the existence of your hippocampus just by thinking really hard?

Re: Anthropic is Down

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Post by beAbU »

delaminator wrote: post #121
macintux wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A few times a year I have to remind my co-workers that reading & understanding error messages is a critical part of being in the IT business. I'm not perfect in that regard, but the number of times the error message explaining exactly what's wrong and how to solve it is included in the screenshot they share is a little depressing.

Application Error: The exception illegal instruction An attempt was made to execute an illegal instruction. (0xc000001d) occurred in the application at location. Click on OK to terminate the program.

Yes, and this is an example of a horrible error message that does not help the use one iota.

Re: Anthropic is Down

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Post by jwr »

seaal wrote: post #18
jwr wrote: post #8

I find it a bit annoying that the last place where I can learn about an Anthropic outage is the Anthropic Status page.

https://status.claude.com/ what do you mean it's right there. Judging by the Github issues it only took them 10 minutes to add the issue message.

It was longer than 10 minutes, I'd say 15-20 minutes this time. They should be much quicker, I would expect <5 minutes.

Re: Anthropic is Down

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Post by davedx »

bgirard wrote: post #128
davedx wrote: post #42

The great thing about LLMs being more or less commoditized is switching is so easy. I use Claude Code via the VS Code extension. When I got a couple of 500 errors just now I simply copy pasted my last instructions into Codex and kept going. It's pretty rare that switching costs are THAT low in technology!

The switching cost is so low that I find it's easier and better value to have two $20/mo subscription from different providers than a $200/mo subscription with the frontier model of the month. Reliability and model diversity are a bonus.

Yes that's exactly what I have too.

Re: Anthropic is Down

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Post by davedx »

skydhash wrote: post #73
davedx wrote: post #42

The great thing about LLMs being more or less commoditized is switching is so easy. I use Claude Code via the VS Code extension. When I got a couple of 500 errors just now I simply copy pasted my last instructions into Codex and kept going. It's pretty rare that switching costs are THAT low in technology!

> It's pretty rare that switching costs are THAT low in technology! Look harder. Swapping usb devices (mouse,…) takes even less time. Switching wifi is also easy. Switching browser works the same. I can equally use vim/emacs/vscode/sublime/… for programming.

Huh? I have the VSCode extensions for both. Switching is a couple of mouse clicks and copy paste.

Re: Anthropic is Down

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Post by Forgeties79 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #142
Forgeties79 wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m not saying it’s a sudden/brand new thing, I think I’m just really seeing the results of the past decade clearly and frequently. LLM usage philosophies really highlight it.

> I’m not saying it’s a sudden/brand new thing I was more referencing the whole "I'm starting to worry" while plenty of people been cautiously observing from the side-lines all the trouble "move fast, break things" brought forward, many of them speaking up at the time too. It's been pretty evident for quite some time, even back in 2016 Facebook was used by the military to incite genocide in Myanmar, yet people were s…

I’m starting to think this is unproductive tbh

Re: Anthropic is Down

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Post by lavezzi »

monsieurbanana wrote: post #34
hk__2 wrote: post #16

Their GitHub issues are wild; random people are posting the same useless "bug reports" over and over multiple times per minute. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues

Wow are these submitted automatically by claude code? I'm not comfortable with the level of details they have (user's anthropic email, full path of the project they were working on, stack traces...)

Nope, all user submitted likely with the assistance of Claude.
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