My probably incorrect, uninformed hunch is that users convinced of how AI should act actually end up nerfing its capabilities with their prompts. Essentially dumbing it down to their level, losing out on the wisdom it's gained through training.
65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation
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Re: 65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is because nothing in the world is deterministic, they are just all varying degrees of probability.
This rings hollow to me. When my code compiles in the evening, it also compiles the next morning. When my code stops compiling, usually I can track the issue in the way my build changed. Sure, my laptop may die while I'm working and so the second compilation may not end because of that, but that's not really comparable to a LLM giving me three different answers when given the same prompt three times. Saying that noth…
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Re: 65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation
#23LLMs are the eternal September for software, in that the sort of people who couldn’t make it through a bootcamp can now be “programming thought leaders”. There’s no longer a reliable way to filter signal from noise. Those 3000 early adopters who are bookmarking a trivial markdown file largely overlap with the sort of people who breathlessly announce that “the last six months of model development have changed everythi…
The Markdown file looks like it’s written for people who either haven’t discovered Plan mode, or who can’t be bothered to read a generated plan before running with it.
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#24LLMs are the eternal September for software, in that the sort of people who couldn’t make it through a bootcamp can now be “programming thought leaders”. There’s no longer a reliable way to filter signal from noise. Those 3000 early adopters who are bookmarking a trivial markdown file largely overlap with the sort of people who breathlessly announce that “the last six months of model development have changed everythi…
> LLMs are the eternal September for software, in that the sort of people who couldn’t make it through a bootcamp can now be “programming thought leaders”
The democratization of programming (derogatory)
Re: 65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation
#25With AI, it feels like deterministic outcomes are not valued as experience taught us it should. The absence of means to measure outcomes of these prompt documents makes me feel like the profession is regressing further into cargo culting.
That might be because AI is being pushed largely by leaders that do not have the experience you’re referring to. Determinism is grossly undervalued - look at how low the knowledge of formal verification is, let alone its deployment in the real world!
Re: 65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just packaged the extension for the fun of it! And I do want people to try for themselves, that is the point. About people that are not dumb; surely many people are not dumb; many people are very smart indeed. But that does not prove there are no dumb or gullible people!
I wonder if someone could explore creating a standalone product out of that markdown, just for the fun of it.
Let's start a company and raise money from investors!!
Re: 65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation
#27LLMs are the eternal September for software, in that the sort of people who couldn’t make it through a bootcamp can now be “programming thought leaders”. There’s no longer a reliable way to filter signal from noise. Those 3000 early adopters who are bookmarking a trivial markdown file largely overlap with the sort of people who breathlessly announce that “the last six months of model development have changed everythi…
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#28I know some people that would also benefit from these 65 lines of markdown. Even without using AI.
This! It feels like most of these markdown files floating around can bear the label _“stuff you struggled to have a sloppy coworker understand”_.
Possibly because the people creating them _are_ the sloppy coworkers and they’re now experiencing (by using an AI tool) a reflection of what it’s like to work with themselves.
Even if this is complete nonsense, I choose to believe it :’)
Re: 65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation
#29You know, it's good old prompt/context engineering. To be fair, markdowns actually can be useful because of LLM's (Transformer's) gullible/susceptible nature... At least that's what I discovered developing a prompting framework.
Of course it's hilarious a single markdown got 4000 starts, but it looks like just another example of how people chase a buzzing x post in tech space.
Re: 65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation
#30LLMs are the eternal September for software, in that the sort of people who couldn’t make it through a bootcamp can now be “programming thought leaders”. There’s no longer a reliable way to filter signal from noise. Those 3000 early adopters who are bookmarking a trivial markdown file largely overlap with the sort of people who breathlessly announce that “the last six months of model development have changed everythi…
> LLMs are the eternal September for software, in that the sort of people who couldn’t make it through a bootcamp can now be “programming thought leaders” The democratization of programming (derogatory)
And vendor locking