surely, 4,000 developers can’t be wrong Apparently almost half of all the websites on the internet run on WordPress, so it's entirely possible for developers to be wrong at scale.
Why is that a bad thing?
65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation
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#42Bro science is rampant in the AI world. Every new model that comes out is the best there ever was, every trick you can think of is the one that makes all the other users unsophisticated, "bro, you are still writing prompts as text? You have to put them into images so the AI can understand them visually as well as textually". It isn't strange that this is the case, because you'd be equally hard pressed to compare deve…
(surprised smiley) - wait, this is for real? Can I feed my whiteboard scribbles as prompt?
That would be game changing!
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#43I found that "Make no mistakes, or you go to jail" improves claude-code's performance by about 43%
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#44surely, 4,000 developers can’t be wrong Apparently almost half of all the websites on the internet run on WordPress, so it's entirely possible for developers to be wrong at scale.
and there is a crap-ton of "apps" that repackage the entire world^W^W excuse me, Chromium, hog RAM, and destroy any semblance of native feel - all to write "production-ready" [sic] cross-platform code in JavaScript, a language more absurd than C++[0] but so easy to start with.
[0]: https://jsdate.wtf
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#45LLMs 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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#46Maybe I'm just really lucky but reading those instructions it's basically how I find Claude Code behaves. That repo with 4k stars is only 2 weeks old as well, so it's obviously not from a much less competent model.
Same here, I find most of these skills/prompts a bit redundant. Some people argue that in including these in the conversation, one is doing latent space management of sorts and bringing the model closer to where one wants it to be.
I wonder what will happen with new LLMs that contain all of these in their training data.
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#47These days I genuinely can't tell if articles are satire or not.
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#48There will come a day soon where “hello world” will be typed by sentient hands for the last time.
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#49surely, 4,000 developers can’t be wrong Apparently almost half of all the websites on the internet run on WordPress, so it's entirely possible for developers to be wrong at scale.
Why is that a bad thing?
WordPress as a CMS is fine, but 90% of websites (e.g. the bit that lands in your browser) don't need the complexity of runtime generation and pointlessly run an application with a huge attack surface that's relatively easy to compromise. If sites used WordPress as a backend tool with a static site generator to bake the content there'd be far fewer compromised websites.
WordPress's popularity is mostly adding a huge amount of complexity, runtime cost, and security risk for every visitor for the only benefit of a content manager being able to add a page more easily or to configure a form without needing a developer. That is optimizing the least important part of the system.
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#50LLMs 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…
I agree.
I'm sure i'll piss off a lot of people with this one but I don't care any more. I'm calling it what it is.
LLMs empower those without the domain knowledge or experience to identify if the output actually solves the problem. I have seen multiple colleagues deliver a lot of stuff that looks fancy but doesn't actually solve the prescribed problem at all. It's mostly just furniture around the problem. And the retort when I have to evaluate what they have done is "but it's so powerful". I stopped listening. It's a pure faith argument without any critical reasoning. It's the new "but it's got electrolytes!".
The second major problem is corrupting reasoning outright. I see people approaching LLMs as an exploratory process and let the LLM guide the reasoning. That doesn't really work. If you have a defined problem, it is very difficult to keep an LLM inside the rails. I believe that a lot of "success" with LLMs is because the users have little interest in purity or the problem they are supposed to be solving and are quite happy to deliver anything if it is demonstrable to someone else. That would suggest they are doing it to be conspicuous.
So we have a unique combination of self-imposed intellectual dishonesty, mixed with irrational faith which is ultimately self-aggrandizing. Just what society needs in difficult times: more of that! :(