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Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

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Re: Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

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Post by hunkbunkdrunk »

simonw wrote: post #622
garblegarble wrote: post #616

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what I meant by other thought leadership things - that's all covering different niches. For what it's worth, I think you do useful work and are a respectible influencer. I'd also say don't be down about your use of blogging - I'd say it makes you more valuable, there aren't that many decision-makers who are going to sit through a bunch of breathless YouTube videos... P.S. I hope you don't object to me using th…

Hah, yeah I'm still a little sore at the "influencer" term but I'm beginning to accept that it applies and I should get comfortable with it!

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Re: Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

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Post by christofosho »

Waterluvian wrote: post #553

One of the most frustrating things for me is when I very clearly ask a question, and it answers the question by making changes to the code. "Is there cleaner CSS for aligning child elements to the parent's grid?" proceeds to re-write the entire CSS file

There's something to be said about controlling the tools you allow the robot to exec.

Re: Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

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Post by inigyou »

mapt wrote: post #467
simonw wrote: post #393

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Things I learned from this: - Fable will do a whole lot more than you might expect in order to verify a fix. I learned that it's "relentlessly proactive". That's a good title for a blog entry! - You can take screenshots of a window in macOS using the "screencapture" CLI command, but you'll need the integer window ID first. - That windowID is accessible via "Quartz.CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo(Quartz.kCGWindowListOption…

It was only pursuing the goal you gave it - Keep Summer Safe.

nobody ever asked how the car with the dead battery was still able to murder hundreds of people with laser beams and stuff

Re: Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

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Post by thegrim33 »

This giant rube goldberg machine, that he apparently has almost no control of, that cost $12 to run, all to make a 2 line bug fix in code the he himself owns because he's at a point where he doesn't know what's in his own codebase. I'm just shaking my head.

Re: Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

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Post by SepiaSapient »

peteforde wrote: post #214
etdznots wrote: post #40

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Example of whats been shipped?

At this point, why would anyone in their right mind respond to this question and paint a target for all manner of negativity ranging from snark to harassment to malicious action?

> target for all manner of negativity ranging from snark to harassment to malicious action

We get get the Borg-esque "resistance is futile" spiel, someone asks for examples. One guy (kinda smugly tbh) points us to his (neat) online course website, claiming that it took him 1 month to rebuild with Claude, ergo GP is right and the non-AI dev is destined to extinction. As WooCommerce didn't end all web development before, he gets some good-natured ribbing.

I find the AI booster dynamic of "you are fool and will get replaced" to "I'm a smoll defenseless bean" kinda puzzling.

Re: Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

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Post by nullbio »

senordevnyc wrote: post #592
nullbio wrote: post #464

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Still don't know why people use Claude. Maybe because they don't know what they're doing.

Yep, we’re all just dumdums.

Claude is made for dumdums. The product is to automate as much as possible and remove the burden of thinking. ChatGPT is much more hands on, but it gives you more power and flexibility and actually listens to your demands.

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Post by untcarcandy »

simonw wrote: post #622
garblegarble wrote: post #616

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what I meant by other thought leadership things - that's all covering different niches. For what it's worth, I think you do useful work and are a respectible influencer. I'd also say don't be down about your use of blogging - I'd say it makes you more valuable, there aren't that many decision-makers who are going to sit through a bunch of breathless YouTube videos... P.S. I hope you don't object to me using th…

Hah, yeah I'm still a little sore at the "influencer" term but I'm beginning to accept that it applies and I should get comfortable with it!

[dead]

Re: Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

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Post by hakfoo »

pertymcpert wrote: post #627
RealityVoid wrote: post #621

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They matter.

Because?

Sometimes you want the machine to be an advisor and sanity check your suggestions.

Sometimes you just want it to do the boilerplate you have in mind without trying to reason everything from first principles.

I told you to check fields "foo" and "bar" for values "baz" and "quux". You don't need to go diving through the entire source tree to discover where and how this is set.

I guess maybe it's helpful for the vibe-coded audience-- if it tries to over-process everything, there's a better chance it will work on a single shot, but I'm taking the Crazy Taxi approach: you get points if you drop me off within 20 metres of where I wanted to go, and I can correct it if I specified the wrong response message in the original approach.

Re: Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

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Post by rajveerb »

UncleOxidant wrote: post #124
rajveerb wrote: post #68

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what sort of compiler?

A compiler that takes C code (a subset of C with some extensions) and compiles it to microcode for a type of microcoded, algorithmic state machine that we're developing.

it would be cool to have this task (or some variant) in a benchmark.
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