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> I started it as a way to learn things. Mostly picked questions that were on the edge of my understanding, researched the problem for myself, and then tried to provide clear and detailed answers. So I got a lot out of it too.

This is literally what I did to learn node.js at a deeper level. Was a lot of fun for a while.

This is the bullshit I find infuriating. Some conservative bloviating about Charlie Kirk and the reaction to his death from internet randos but they completely fucking ignore the vile shit actually elected representatives in their preferred party say.

"Robert Mueller just died. Good, I'm glad he's dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

Fucking hypocrites.

No it wouldn't. The vast majority of shitty things have been done via executive order. Republicans are completely fine with congress being dysfunctional. That serves their goals.

> You are asking Dems to do something they literally cannot do while minority party. You are asking Dems to do an impossible thing and then complaining they cannot.

It's Murc's law all the way down.

I've found Claude to be the least sycophantic OOTB. But I've also been running custom system prompts for a while now and have lost touch with what the default behavior looks like. I've had to balance "push back when I'm wrong" and "act like a peer" style instructions which have lead to some pretty annoying one-upmanship style dialogue.

More specifically those instructions alone caused the model to narrow in on tangentially incorrect details while completely ignoring the thrust of my argument. I get where this could cause issues with writing code, but I do a lot more than write code with CC and the conversational voice is important to me.

"People won't play difficult games anymore because the new Wolverine game gave them a blue line to follow everywhere and removed any need for decisions or exploration."

I use Claude for this stuff all the time. The difference is I have Claude create repeatable scripts which do the actual things on a schedule. Claude is never invoked in on a schedule, only by me. One example is job board search filtered for roles I'd be interested in. The script itself includes all the things I care about like being remote. Clear salary ranges. Type of work I want to be doing. Claude built a good script to scrape multiple sources and aggregate them into a sqlite database. It filters these out until a number of relevant roles (or amount of time has passed) that the script sends me a message and adds a reminder to my Apple account to check in on new job listings. At that point I'll invoke Claude myself to summarize and prioritize the listings. If there are gaps in what Claude finds vs the script, that's a point where I iterate again on the script. My goal is for the job alerts and filtering to be fully useful even if Claude and all LLM tools disappear tomorrow. And also not give such powerful tools the ability to run on a schedule on vague instructions.

More often than not these sorts of stories are "I ignored all of Claude's warnings and told it YOLO and I'm totally surprised my production database was deleted!"

I have literally never seen this and it doesn't make much since because the turns are flagged with metadata. It should be impossible for Claude to confuse your text for its own. I know because I use this metadata all the time. I've built hooks and processes against it.

Australia's minimum wage is significantly higher than in the US. An adult working as a burger flipper at McDonalds can expect a minimum of $27.81 / hour.

Nothing about your post indicates you deserve any respect. Slop comment which adds nothing to the conversation. Probably AI.

Switching between headphone output and speaker output on my system is also just one line. I have no idea what that line is because I created a toggle-able icon in waybar which is a really simple script that switches between the two outputs and shows me the correct icon. I didn't need a "tool" to do it, but the packaging and UX are far better than popping up a terminal any time I want to do this.

There seems to be some fundamental thing in humans which makes a subset of them follow narcissists like messiahs. MAGA and Elon stans aren’t that far apart.