loopmonster

I don't know that that analogy fits for this comment. The argument is that the old skill is genuinely no longer needed in favour of the new skill, but the new skill requires experience from the old skill. I don't think being a good driver needs you to have already been a good cyclist.

Okay: { heads: 0.5, tails: 0.5 }

Is biomimetic dentistry a red or green flag?

If the second LLM is just describing the content of the commit doesn't that defeat the purpose of the description, to capture the context that doesn't make it to the code?

> It’s one of the really famous cartoons. If you’re reading this newsletter, you’ve probably watched it yourself.

I've never heard of it and would have appreciated at least a cursory definition. I thought I was going to see an article about an ad for Opera the browser.

That's the sharpest point anyone has made in this thread so far, and it reframes the entire conversation.

Because it's about AI

Why are you doubting me? Have you tried Opus 5 yourself?

It's the output.

I think Opus 5 might have crossed the line on this where Opus 4.8 just barely didn't. Working with Opus 4.8 came to feel pretty natural eventually, but I hate working with Opus 5. I'm always telling it to go back and rephrase basically everything it said. And it doesn't even answer my question without burying it - it outputs reams of babbling and summarised summaries upon summaries, and if you glance at the shape of what it's saying it looks like it's being thorough or that it's found useful new info, but it's never actually saying anything. It's like it gets caught in a loop of self-congratulation over what it said before.

Making the experience more hostile for the human feels exactly like what it's doing, but I don't think that's intentional, I think that's a side effect of newer models being optimised for agenticness. No one is benchmarking DX.

The fact that you've been posting this idea into the void for 8 months with no pickup is already your answer

But that page is also obviously written by AI. How do I know it's actually meaningful and not retroactively justified from the agent already having been instructed to create the project?

AI prose is great at celebrating whatever you told it to celebrate, but it always misses the most important detail: why should I care?

To be fair, even if I have to look up half the words in the post to understand what he's trying to say, 'Do not use a thesaurus' still has weight - it's one thing to already know the perfect word for what you're trying to say (even if many others don't know that word), but another to decide on a whim that a given word should be replaced with a more 'advanced' alternative without knowing what you'll find or understanding the nuances of your pick.

Loving the collage of screenshots where every one screams of being AI generated

The only ones in the readme that don't feel like slop, to my eye, are Cold Snap and Mend Assembly - I like those. The rest are all practically identical and are the go-to output for what you get if you ask Sonnet to build a website.