It’s probably a legacy code quality issue too. If your code is a mess, the only fix it can find is a kludgy one. The first thing I had it do, once it was good enough to do real work, was a legacy refactor to get architecture up to best practice standards. Heck, even OpenAI’s Harness Engineering specs say that this is essential to do first. I suspect that many of the people saying it comes up with shitty solutions are the same ones that always complain about over-engineering.

You’ll also get subpar results if you just have it start coding without fully architecting its solution first. Just like a real developer.

Maybe it’s just because Anthropic is so many more miles ahead than OpenAI, but I have not had the “it doesn’t work” experience that people are talking about here. I’ve set up agentic pipelines with code architecture guidelines, the orchestrator calls the implementer, tester, reviewer when needed. If the developed code isn’t up to standard or the work item isn’t fully captured, it’ll reject it and send it back to implementation. It invokes the architect if it runs into something unanticipated. The pipeline can run a feature with high accuracy and very little input.

I’ve even used it to run batteries of frozen experiments on self synthesized data using its own simulation harnesses to discover novel techniques that work in the real world. If it isn’t helpful, I feel like you are doing it wrong.

Nobody poops but you.

I feel like this is a measurable fact rather than an opinion.

There’s a reason cost of living has been so cheap there for years. People who haven’t been paying attention are about to find out.

It is miles ahead of Opus when designing scientific experiments. If you want to discover novel techniques or combine known techniques in new ways and you want to be sure that what you are measuring is real and not dependent on your specific dataset, Opus or even Fable just does not compete. Opus is fine for running experiments, but when it comes to interpreting results or recommending next steps, it makes mistakes.

lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower.

Max Miller, fuck that guy. j/k, I just don’t watch TV anymore.

Then fight already, you’re still going down.

Rioting won’t help anymore. The time for action was 40 years ago. We could maybe save humanity by killing almost everyone and subsisting the few remaining on a clean energy, no-fossil fuel burning, aggressive carbon recapture society. Beyond that, we are fucked.

Treat your continued existence like terminal cancer and try to live with purpose.

😂😭

So far, I’m not a huge fan of the anthropocene.

In a way that is temporally continuous? No way. As long as I’m always dead by around 2012? Yeah, sure.

Have you been tested for sleep apnea? Might also be long COVID.

our descendants

That’s optimistic of you.

It’s easy to see the effects of users moving to the fediverse. Reddit has been sad since it nerfed /r/All. In fact, it seems like a thinly veiled attempt to control what its users see under the guise of providing a more tailored user experience. For me, the overall effect is that it’s homogeneous, boring and I don’t want to be there anymore.

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Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think ‘oh, the lawnmower hates me’ – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle.

— Brian Cantrill

Fascist propaganda platforms only get traffic because they have content.

By their own logic, they don’t have a right to tariff refunds either.