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Interesting that in the second image the text on the whiteboard changes (top left)


It seems this is because the string "autoregressive prior" should appear on the right hand side as well, but in the second image it's hidden from view, and this has confused it to place it on the left hand side instead?

It also misses the arrow between "[diffusion]" and "pixels" in the first image.


Could you share an example?


TLDR: told it to implement a grid view as an alternative to the existing list view, and specifically told it to DRY the code. What it did? Copy and pasted the list view implementation (definitely not DRY), and tried to make it a grid, and even though it is a grid, it looks terrible (https://i.imgur.com/fJiSjq4.png).

I don't understand how people use cursor and all that other shit when it cannot follow such simple instructions.

Prompt (Claude Code): Implement an alternative grid view that the users can switch to. Follow the existing code style with empty comments and line breaks for improved code readability. Use snake case. DRY the code, avoid repetition of code. Do not change the font size or weight.

Output: https://github.com/mayo-dayo/app/compare/0.4...claude-code-g...


In any moderately sized codebase it's basically useless indeed. Pretty much all the praise and hype I ever see is from people making todo-list-tier applications and shouting with excitement how this is going to replace all of humanity.

Hell, I still have to remind it (Cursor) to not give me fucking React a few messages after I've already told it to not give me React (it's a Vue application with not a single line of React in it). Genuinely maddening, but the infinite wisdom of the higher ups forces me into wasting my time with this crap


There's a middle ground, I find.

Absolutely, when tasked with something quite complex in a complex code base, it doesn't really work. It can get you some of the way there, and some of the code it produces gives you great ideas on where to go from, but it doesn't work.

But there are certainly some tasks where it excels. I asked it to refactor a rather gnarly function (C++), and it did a great job at decomposing it. The initial decomposition was a bit naive: the original function took in a vector, and would parse what the function & data from the vector, and the decomposition split out the functions, but the data still came in as a vector. For instance, one of the functions took a filename, and file contents, and it took it as element 0 and element 1 from a vector, when it should obviously be two parameters. But some further prompting and it took it to the end.


Claude's predilection and evangelism for React is frustrating. Many times I have used it as search with a question like "In the Python library X how do I do Z?" And I'll get a React widget that computes what I was trying to compute.


I have the opposite experience. I'm incredibly produce with 3.5 in Agent/Composer mode. I wonder if it's something to do with the size of the Vue community (and thus the training data available) versus React.


Points for being specific with it's shortcomings! Expecting it to get it in one shot isn't how to work best with them. It takes some cajoling and at this point in time, sometimes it is still faster to do it the old fashioned way of you already know what you're doing.


It also keeps adding aspect-ratio to every single image it finds in my code base.


Also this: `grid grid-cols-2 sm:grid-cols-3 md:grid-cols-4 lg:grid-cols-5 xl:grid-cols-6` (https://github.com/mayo-dayo/app/blob/463ad5aeee904289ecc7d4...).

Even though my Layout clearly says `max-w-md` (https://github.com/mayo-dayo/app/blob/463ad5aeee904289ecc7d4...).


Trump said he wanted to make polls that were "bad for him" illegal, and to take broadcast licenses away from networks that criticized him. DeSantis tried to take an abortion ad off air in Florida since he disagreed with it. Evidently, the Republicans don't care much about 1A so I'm not sure what you voted for.

As for hoaxes, conservative media has been highly effective at this (to the point where Joe Biden had to repudiate the FEMA hoax after the hurricane).


I don't get this argument, since Trump has called tens of folks nasty names, called Harris a communist, marxist, etc. and called Democrats the "enemy within". Why is the standard different for Dems?


Trump is namecalling politicians, the Dems are namecalling the voters.


>I don't get this argument, since Trump has called tens of folks nasty names, called Harris a communist, marxist, etc. and called Democrats the "enemy within". Why is the standard different for Dems?

I dunno how relevant it is to say "Well, Trump gets away with it" because he stayed on message with his name-calling: the economy. Calling someone a communist is just a hyperbolic way of saying that they don't care for the economy.

OTOH, calling half the voting population stupid has nothing to do with the platform the politician is running on.

I mean, as stupid as it sounds, something like "They're coming for yer guns!!!" is still platform-relevant, while "They're threatened by strong women" isn't.

I guess the takeaway is that targeted and on-topic insulting works but random digressions into personal attacks that have no relevance to the platform don't?


Most of their economic policies, Medicare for Seniors, etc. apply to poor White folks as much as anyone. Harris never campaigned on trans issues whatsoever.


It's curious that clicking on the links doesn't take you to a /page.html but rather just /page. Is that due to Cloudflare routing?


https://colonist.io is the browser version of Catan. I play it often!


Could you elaborate on that point about structure? I’m curious what you mean.


I mean the tree structure, the crowd-sourced moderation (flagging and downvotes), and promoting/hiding content based on votes.

When the topic isn't controversial, that all tends to promote the best comments.

But when the topic is controversial, it simply makes one point of view dominant. (The "hivemind" as redditors say.)


You might like Gary's blog on potential AI harms: https://garymarcus.substack.com/


Gary is an anti-ML crank with no more factual grounding than people who think AI is going to conquer the world and enslave you.


> AI is going to conquer the world and enslave you

That is actually a plausible outcome, if humans willingly submit to AI.


Surprisingly, they hallucinate more than you might think.

https://x.com/lefthanddraft/status/1777495120910426436?s=46


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