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1. mathisfun123 · 1790584385 · focus · HN ↗

   This "how to prompt" shit changes like every 3 months. Remember when earlier this year it was critical to tell Claude to keep going because it would just give up. It's amazing this is really considered a product - imagine having to relearn how to drive your car every 3 months.

   1. ddosmax556 · 1790584806 · focus · HN ↗

      Not sure how you missed that but models are fundamentally changing in features, scope, intelligence, pricing, communication style. Of course it changes every 3 months. Of course there is no product that lasts more than 3 months. We're in a race right now. It won't stop changing for a while.

      1. mathisfun123 · 1790584961 · focus · HN ↗

         > Not sure how you missed that but models are fundamentally changing in features, scope, intelligence, pricing, communication style

         Not sure how you missed it but that's exactly what I'm calling out as asinine.

         > We're in a race right now

         Again: consider the analogy about cars... which are literally used for racing (occasionally).

         1. UrineSqueegee · 1790585430 · focus · HN ↗

            >Not sure how you missed it but that's exactly what I'm calling out as asinine.

            i dont understand how you're framing this. how is this a bad thing exactly? How is it asinine?

            1. mathisfun123 · 1790585751 · focus · HN ↗

               For the third and final time: consider the analogy about cars.

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               3. dagss · 1790587401 · focus · HN ↗

                  ...and cars also changed very rapidly during early years, not to mention how often they would break down and how they basically required the user to be a mechanic to repair them on the spot for many years.

                  So the analogy isn't all that good is it?

                  You are comparing immature tech with very mature tech.

                  What technology emerged into the market fully finished?

                  If your point is "don't use technology until it is mature" then you are of course free to not use it for now.

                  1. spiclk · 1790592304 · focus · HN ↗

                     And of course, we now know that encouraging everyone to own and rely on a contraption that emits fumes and other pollutants for its entire operating life was a bad idea.
               4. UrineSqueegee · 1790590430 · focus · HN ↗

                  the analogy is asinine since they are not even remotely the same thing.

                  Also cars change rapidly too, maybe thats the only thing they have in common lol. Have you gone from one maker to the other? everything is different, even how you set the gears.

               5. r_lee · 1790593265 · focus · HN ↗

                  that's not a useful analogy, it's not like these models are CPUs where the cores just get increase in core count or clock speeds

                  they fundamentally change, architecture, the way they're trained etc.

         2. ddosmax556 · 1791058298 · focus · HN ↗

            You are comparing mature technology to something that's on the edge of human advancement. It's like comparing the first steam driver cars with a Tesla, and complaining that the steering wheel looks different, and suddenly you have to press a pedal with a foot rather than a lever. Things are still changing!

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