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BAM-DevCrew commented on Please do not A/B test my workflow backnotprop.com/blog/do-n... · Posted by u/ramoz

What?

Even without Anthropic's experimentation, anything in the context is completely probabilistic.

You cannot rely on it no matter how/how much you prompt the model

And how does one address the fragility of probabilities? Engineering. Study weaknesses and harden them. Control the probabilities. It is NOT "completely" probabilistic.

BAM-DevCrew commented on Please do not A/B test my workflow backnotprop.com/blog/do-n... · Posted by u/ramoz

ramoz · 3 days ago

I understand. Thank you for sharing. I didn't uncover all of this until Claude told me its specific system instructions when I asked it to conduct introspection. I'll revise the blog so that I don't encourage anybody else to do deeper introspection with the tool.

BAM-DevCrew · 3 days ago

As a divergent thinker who is harmed when Claude behaves in unpredictable manners that go counter to my extensive harm prevention protocols, I may have, or may not have, done deep investigation of the tool in order to understand how to create my harm prevention protocols. When Anthropic employees push out unstable work, developers in general are significantly impacted. When unstable products end up in my workflow I am harmed both financially AND psychologically. I can lose hours, days, even weeks by an unstable model or IDE. I should not EVER be tested on. And if maybe diving into their product protects me, so be it.

BAM-DevCrew commented on Please do not A/B test my workflow backnotprop.com/blog/do-n... · Posted by u/ramoz

pixl97 · 3 days ago

When a company tells you not to reverse, decompile, or disassemble their software, the first thing you should do is just that.

BAM-DevCrew · 3 days ago

Maybe I did. Maybe I didn't.

BAM-DevCrew commented on Please do not A/B test my workflow backnotprop.com/blog/do-n... · Posted by u/ramoz

duskdozer · 3 days ago

Because by contrast they have the money and institutional capture to make your life miserable if you don't.

BAM-DevCrew · 3 days ago

Bring it on, I say. Want shit publicity? Go for it assholes.

BAM-DevCrew commented on Please do not A/B test my workflow backnotprop.com/blog/do-n... · Posted by u/ramoz

chrislloyd · 3 days ago

Hi, this was my test! The plan-mode prompt has been largely unchanged since the 3.x series models and now 4.x get models are able to be successful with far less direction. My hypothesis was that shortening the plan would decrease rate-limit hits while helping people still achieve similar outcomes. I ran a few variants, with the author (and few thousand others) getting the most aggressive, limiting the plan to 40 lines. Early results aren't showing much impact on rate limits so I've ended the experiment.

Planning serves two purposes - helping the model stay on track and helping the user gain confidence in what the model is about to do. Both sides of that are fuzzy, complex and non-obvious!

BAM-DevCrew · 3 days ago

As a divergent thinker with extensive hard constraints in claude.mds and on-boarding commands that force claude to internalize my constraints, that you or some other employee of Anthropic could randomly select me for testing is horrifying. Each unexpected behavior and my corresponding reaction to it can wipe me out, my brain out, completely for hours, days, even weeks. I have in the last year spend tens (estimating around 400) of hours establishing and reestablishing a system to protect myself from psychological harm and financial harm. It is twisted that you Anthropic employees do not consider the impact your work has on divergent thinking Claude users, let alone that real work is severly impacted by your work. Totally irresponsible. Offensively so.

BAM-DevCrew commented on Go! The AI Personal Operating System for Your Life app.gosmartchain.ai/... · Posted by u/Anthony_Go

Anthony_Go · a month ago

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BAM-DevCrew · a month ago

Your comment should be on your website.

More importantly, why would anyone trust Go! with their entire life's data? You have a lot of explaining to do before any sensible person gives Go! a go.

BAM-DevCrew commented on After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand atmoio.substack.com/p/aft... · Posted by u/mobitar

antonvs · 2 months ago

Skill comes from experience. It takes a good amount of working with these models to learn how to use them effectively, when to use them, and what to use them for. Otherwise, you end up hitting their limitations over and over and they just seem useless.

They're certainly not perfect, but many of the issues that people post about as though they're show-stoppers are easily resolved with the right tools and prompting.

BAM-DevCrew · 2 months ago

20% tools, 40% prompt, 40% claude.md (agents.md) = 98% success most of the time. A few errors to correct is not the end of the world.

BAM-DevCrew commented on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too notebookcheck.net/I-dumpe... · Posted by u/smurda

BAM-DevCrew · 2 months ago

Starting on Jan 5th, I am mostly migrated from Windows 10 to Zorin Linux. It has taken about a week. Would have went faster if I wasn't a "power user" who tests every option and tweaks the shit out of my system. I have researched and tested multiple file managers (Nemo won) and terminals (Tabby won). Moved everything possible out of sandboxes. Set up VSCodium with Claude Code desktop extension, moved MCP servers to global in both Linux and Windows vs project specific, installed the wrapper for Claude Desktop, wired in 4 hard drives, bookmarked directories, imported Thunderbird and Librewolf profiles. E.T.C... And to do it I guided Claude Desktop with full access to both Windows 10 and Linux to research and implement, verbosely explaining each step of the way. Zorin did work out of the box. If I was not, unfortunately, a freak about how everything has to work exactly how I want, with a full software dev environment (no, not for vibe coding) to get working fluidly, the migration would have been instant. Zorin worked out of the box, other than passwords. It looks and behaves very similar to Windows. This is on my 2012 Hp 220Z with 32gb ram and an SSD for the OS. It works like a champ.