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Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
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Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
#162Yesterday my 8yo prompted (using voice recognition) Claude to make a game where it would play her a song (say Twinkle) and she had to play it back and get scored. The UI was a nice piano with visual feedback. The laptop key served as the keys until I prompted for midi support so she could use the electric piano. The whole thing took about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, one peak at the code and you can already see the state s…
Why would code be a burden when LLMs are the worse they will ever be today?
Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
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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.
They will be incentivized to compete with open models whether those open models comes from China, Google or, likely in the future, the U.S. Government.
Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
#164A few weeks ago, I lost my bluetooth earbuds in my house somewhere. It was still connected and nowhere to be found.
In my case, it wasn't able to come up with it, but fortunately I was, and had it build a local webpage that does "hot or cold" with a 0-100 score. And it worked first try! Found them in like 2-minutes.
Also made for a fun day of hot-and-cold hide-and-seek games with my niece after i had it built that concept as a sideloaded ipad app :)
Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
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> A lot of code is being written and a lot of it is going to be a real future burden. This assumes that the models of the future won't find it easier to just throw the code away and rebuild it This also assumes that the same application build by humans wouldn't become a "spaghetti mess".
Reminds me of Niven/Pournelle's "The Mote in God’s Eye" where the aliens have a very pragmatic/Jury-rigged approach to technology and everything is more or less improvised. I have noticed this with co-workers also, when you have the ability to read/write/understand things very quickly, you tend to spend much less time on making things tidy, clear and maintainable.
But then you end up in a state, 2 years down the line, where every single person that works in that code base haaaates it and adding any new functionality takes weeks or months.
Compare that to clean, organized code where patterns and extensibility are established. I’ve seen product manager surprised at how fast a new feature was added when everything is laid out well.
Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
#166Yesterday my 8yo prompted (using voice recognition) Claude to make a game where it would play her a song (say Twinkle) and she had to play it back and get scored. The UI was a nice piano with visual feedback. The laptop key served as the keys until I prompted for midi support so she could use the electric piano. The whole thing took about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, one peak at the code and you can already see the state s…
> A lot of code is being written and a lot of it is going to be a real future burden. This assumes that the models of the future won't find it easier to just throw the code away and rebuild it This also assumes that the same application build by humans wouldn't become a "spaghetti mess".
I agree with this. Clean code is important today because it helps humans to understand it. Cleanliness is not otherwise intrinsically valuable.
Today I don't always need to understand the code. When I do, I can ask the LLM to explain the code or to specify the algorithm in pseudocode or even re-write the code until I can understand it.
I think, as an industry, we haven't yet fully grasped the impact of agentic coding. We don't yet know what software engineering is going to be like in 5 to 10 years.
Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
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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…
Explain how you square this with leaderboards showing models are clearly improving in ELO. These are blind taste tests, not benchmaxxing.
> Explain how you square this with leaderboards showing models are clearly improving in ELO
If I had to guess, the benches aren't measuring what people care about. But you'll have to ask the people in those Reddit threads why their vibes don't match up with your benches, I don't use Claude and don't give a shit.
Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
They will be incentivized to compete with open models whether those open models comes from China, Google or, likely in the future, the U.S. Government.
Regulatory capture implies that they won't need to compete because competitors – including open source models – will be regulated out of the competition.
Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
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Well first it could write a spec, THEN throw it away :) Like you are supposed to do with a prototype.
Well it could miss relevant things to include in the spec.
Then you version and update the spec and when you commit you reference the diff in the -m
Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
#170Yesterday my 8yo prompted (using voice recognition) Claude to make a game where it would play her a song (say Twinkle) and she had to play it back and get scored. The UI was a nice piano with visual feedback. The laptop key served as the keys until I prompted for midi support so she could use the electric piano. The whole thing took about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, one peak at the code and you can already see the state s…
> A lot of code is being written and a lot of it is going to be a real future burden. This assumes that the models of the future won't find it easier to just throw the code away and rebuild it This also assumes that the same application build by humans wouldn't become a "spaghetti mess".
You use an AI to make the spaghetti.
You use another AI to document the spaghetti.
You use the third AI to make a spicy meatball from the spec.