My employer pays for Claude, and my approach is to use it as a better Google search. It's often not better.
Just today it made three glaring mistakes in one session:
1. It read a file in the wrong directory, because that file had the same name as the file in the right directory. It apologized when I challenged it, promising me that it would remember to "read import statements" in the future.
2. It miscounted the number of times a function was called in my repo. It said 20, while my built-in IDE search accurately showed 17. Again, it apologized when I corrected it.
3. It referred to a variable by name that does not exist anywhere in my code. It apologized, and said it was referring to a variable used internally by one of the third-party packages installed in my repo.
So many apologies.
It's the little things like this that remind me on a regular basis just how little I can trust artificial "intelligence."
It's a small tangent but I am constantly taken aback by just how much the discourse here has slid from nerdom to dorkeyness. All the talk here used to be pendantic and technical and overly complex nerd speak, always stuck in the process itself, feeling above being a 'user', etc.
Now everything is just like above, dorkspeak. Where it reminds me so much more of kids arguing in the playground about "who would win in a fight Darth Vader or Batman"; or console-vs-PC debates. Everything is about the genuine complexity of navigating certain products, of being first and foremost a consumer of something and putting all your energy into comparing various things you are free to choose from.
Its not even like its less techincal, or more mean now, or anything like that. It's just very different and I know its been a while but it feels like it happened overnight.
I call it the redditification of HN. The trend has been massively increased with Corona, and now post AI it's essentially the norm.
People can't even discuss about any politics anymore.
Back in Obama's days there were always interesting discussions in the political threads and they were rarely insta flagged. And it was mostly nuances wrt business needs and what that means for our societies. The PRISM news also frequently got heated, and still stayed somewhat technical.
Extremely noticable compared to the platform it is today.
Tbf though, HN always had a few topics it was extremely irrational about.
As one of the users that moved to HN when Reddit closed access to third party apps it’s also quite literally this. I apologize for any reduction in quality of discourse I might have caused.
What made you want to move over? Are you just desperate for a venue to talk, desperate enough that if your venue of choice changes its API you'll go to another place with other norms?
I disliked the official app and decided I’m done with social media. Somehow still ended up back to it in form of HN. I’ve since checked some of the subreddits I spent time in and they’ve swung a lot towards the right with the quality of discourse dropping so much that I don’t think I would even want to go back. I’m too old to spend my days arguing with people on the internet in some echo chamber.
stack_framer · · focus · HN ↗
Just today it made three glaring mistakes in one session:
1. It read a file in the wrong directory, because that file had the same name as the file in the right directory. It apologized when I challenged it, promising me that it would remember to "read import statements" in the future.
2. It miscounted the number of times a function was called in my repo. It said 20, while my built-in IDE search accurately showed 17. Again, it apologized when I corrected it.
3. It referred to a variable by name that does not exist anywhere in my code. It apologized, and said it was referring to a variable used internally by one of the third-party packages installed in my repo.
So many apologies.
It's the little things like this that remind me on a regular basis just how little I can trust artificial "intelligence."
garg · · focus · HN ↗
beepbooptheory · · focus · HN ↗
Now everything is just like above, dorkspeak. Where it reminds me so much more of kids arguing in the playground about "who would win in a fight Darth Vader or Batman"; or console-vs-PC debates. Everything is about the genuine complexity of navigating certain products, of being first and foremost a consumer of something and putting all your energy into comparing various things you are free to choose from.
Its not even like its less techincal, or more mean now, or anything like that. It's just very different and I know its been a while but it feels like it happened overnight.
ffsm8 · · focus · HN ↗
People can't even discuss about any politics anymore.
Back in Obama's days there were always interesting discussions in the political threads and they were rarely insta flagged. And it was mostly nuances wrt business needs and what that means for our societies. The PRISM news also frequently got heated, and still stayed somewhat technical.
Extremely noticable compared to the platform it is today.
Tbf though, HN always had a few topics it was extremely irrational about.
Eg Apple since the start and Musk post 2012...
jurgenburgen · · focus · HN ↗
As one of the users that moved to HN when Reddit closed access to third party apps it’s also quite literally this. I apologize for any reduction in quality of discourse I might have caused.
Karrot_Kream · · focus · HN ↗
jurgenburgen · · focus · HN ↗