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

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Post by satvikpendem »

kuschku wrote: post #182
satvikpendem wrote: post #173

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The difference is today it's mostly correct. I don't see hallucinations like a few years ago with AI generally, they know to use grounded search.

I get hallucinations every day, including ones where Google is mixing up three different similarly named products, or is telling me that I can mix two cleaning products (which would create chlorine gas). Tested today (2026-08-08). Or a search for precise image downscaling in krita (on 2026-08-03) had the following Google AI result: > To scale down an image in Krita by an exact integer factor with precise pixel sampli…

What are your actual prompts? And what model are you using?

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

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Post by t-writescode »

spudlyo wrote: post #171
t-writescode wrote: post #165

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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.

Two years down the line I suspect "persons" won't working directly on code bases they hate. Two years from now, I'd wager that even today's most ardent AI critics will be using them for dirty jobs -- like refactoring ugly, but useful, balls of mud.

I guess I’m weird. I like refactoring ugly mud and doing performance improvements. I like working on the slow, intentional, process-driven flow of actually migrating services between versions safely.

I don’t hate those and hope I get to keep doing them.

I also hope the AI writes good enough tests that I can trust them during the refactor process.

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

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Post by sixothree »

varjag wrote: post #66

So GIMP kept crashing on me when importing 48 bit TIFFs. I threw a trace at Codex (without so much as a local GIMP repo) from which it figured out that the culprit was thumb preview handling code. It suggested turning off two non-obvious to me options that would circumvent that codepath it indeed worked.

I've had nothing but trouble with Mouse Without Borders on my Surface Pro. I let ChatGPT loose to try and find the reason. It found some wifi power settings that affected it and some other stuff. Those fixed some issues but I was still getting disconnects. It found some events in the event viewer, connected them to an open github issue. So I had it download the code and fix the issue. It eventually fixed two separate issues. And I had it replace the installed MWB with the compiled one on system startup. Things seem to be working great.

Also, nothing sucks like Mouse Without Borders holy heck.

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

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Post by claaams »

reeeeee wrote: post #54
6stringmerc wrote: post #45

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I understand your frustration, but I don't agree with the sentiment that AI-training should not be allowed without compensation. If I learn to draw, make music, build stuff, etc. I look at what others have done before me. I don't pay anyone either. Why should the AI?

An absolute insane take that I'm not convinced isn't astroturfing. When I download an mp3 of Metallica it's a massive crime but when ai does it millions of times it's just "learning".

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

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Post by truthbe »

flyingshelf wrote: post #121
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.

What's google search? The product as we know it is effectively dead. There is no future in which the URL bar isn't just an AI chat input. It's up to the model to search for you, if it decides that's the fastest way to an answer.

Google Search is a web-based search engine operated by Google that helps users find information across the internet.

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

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Post by herbst »

bitexploder wrote: post #177
bdcravens wrote: post #10

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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".

Have better agents rewrite it in the future.

Is this actually what all these horribly buggy "startups" speculate on with their horribly buggy products?
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