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fuzzzerd commented on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters   bbc.com/news/articles/ckg... · Posted by u/speckx
mrandish · 4 days ago
Here in California the cost of fast food skyrocketing and the service experience plummeting started after the introduction of a $20/hr minimum wage for fast food jobs made replacing workers with kiosks, automation and AI more economical. I've also noticed many stores have shortened their hours to center on peak traffic periods - which sucks for those of us with unusual schedules.

I've also recently had more than one sandwich shop visit where there was a huge line and wait simply because there was only one employee on duty making sandwiches, running the register and taking to go orders on the phone. It's gotten so bad I just don't eat out nearly as much, which is probably just accelerating the downward spiral. Fast food used to be the "starter job" for local teens living at home who weren't going off to college where they could score internships. Now there are far fewer of those jobs and the remaining ones have reduced hours. Plus with fewer positions and less hours to fill employers are less likely to hire teens with zero work experience at all.

fuzzzerd · 4 days ago
I don't begrudge folks trying to make a decent wage. I also have to agree that it seems a few factors have all combined to make the experience pretty bad for the consumer.

Order kiosks, long waits for food, skyrocketing prices all contribute to choosing other options. If you're going to spend $15+ per person and it still takes 30 minutes to order, wait, and eat youre alternative comparable options are greatly expanded and people are chosing to go to independent cafes for better food and experience at the same price point.

fuzzzerd commented on My experience creating software with LLM coding agents – Part 2 (Tips)   efitz-thoughts.blogspot.c... · Posted by u/efitz
deadbabe · 11 days ago
They don’t know what to ask. They only assemble questions according to training data.
fuzzzerd · 11 days ago
While true, the questions are all points where the LLM would have "assumed" an answer and by asking you get to point in the right direction instead.
fuzzzerd commented on Being “Confidently Wrong” is holding AI back   promptql.io/blog/being-co... · Posted by u/tango12
gavinray · 12 days ago

  > Yeah I think our jobs are safe.
I give myself 6-18 months before I think top-performing LLM's can do 80% of the day-to-day issues I'm assigned.

  > Why doesn’t anyone acknowledge loops like this?
Thisis something you run into early-on using LLM's and learn to sidestep. This looping is a sort of "context-rot" -- the agent has the problem statement as part of it's input, and then a series of incorrect solutions.

Now what you've got is a junk-soup where the original problem is buried somewhere in the pile.

Best approach I've found is to start a fresh conversation with the original problem statement and any improvements/negative reinforcements you've gotten out of the LLM tacked on.

I typically have ChatGPT 5 Thinking, Claude 4.1 Opus, Grok 4, and Gemini 2.5 Pro all churning on the same question at once and then copy-pasting relevant improvements across each.

fuzzzerd · 12 days ago
> This looping is a sort of "context-rot" -- the agent has the problem statement as part of it's input, and then a series of incorrect solutions.

While I agree, and also use your work around, I think it stands to reason this shouldn't be a problem. The context had the original problem statement along with several examples of what not to do and yet it keeps repeating those very things instead of coming up with a different solution. No human would keep trying one of the solutions included in the context that are marked as not valid.

fuzzzerd commented on GPTs and Feeling Left Behind   whynothugo.nl/journal/202... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
gndk · 24 days ago
Ah thats interesting. I only use Claude Code right now and don't have anything in that section you mention. Wonder how/when its applied and if it is also applied to CC...
fuzzzerd · 23 days ago
With Claude code you can have a personal, project (shared) and project local set of memory files.

I would put the bits about clarifying questions in your personal (machine level) claude.MD file so it applies across projects.

fuzzzerd commented on 6 weeks of Claude Code   blog.puzzmo.com/posts/202... · Posted by u/mike1o1
Aurornis · a month ago
I haven’t found massive performance between tools that use the same underlying LLM

The benefit of Claude Code is that you can pay a fixed monthly fee and get a lot more than you would with API requests alone.

fuzzzerd · a month ago
That has not been my experience, Copilot using Claude is way different than claude code for me. Anecdotal, and "vibes" based, but it'd what I've been experiencing.
fuzzzerd commented on Stop selling “unlimited”, when you mean “until we change our minds”   blog.kilocode.ai/p/ai-pri... · Posted by u/heymax054
vertoc · a month ago
I think the hard part with these ai models is it’s kind of hard to figure out how many tokens you’re going to use, especially as a new user. 4,000 tokens sounds like a lot for instance, but is tiny
fuzzzerd · a month ago
While I don't disagree that determining usage is incredibly difficult, it doesn't take a genius to see that something sold "by the million" is something you can expect to to use a lot of.
fuzzzerd commented on Claude Code weekly rate limits    · Posted by u/thebestmoshe
mrits · a month ago
I imagine they will add some features soon where you have more control. It could get complicated quickly. Before they put this in I think they should have at least given you an easy way to buy more credits at a hugely discounted rate.

I know entire offices in Bangladesh share some of these accounts, so I can see how it is a problem.

fuzzzerd · a month ago
That is exactly the use case they're trying to stop. Sharing accounts.
fuzzzerd commented on Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras   eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07... · Posted by u/xoa
smotched · a month ago
That doesn't matter when all your neighbors have one, and the one in front of you has theirs pointed directly at your house.
fuzzzerd · a month ago
There is no solution to that as far as I can tell, and it really stinks.
fuzzzerd commented on The North Korean fake IT worker problem is ubiquitous   theregister.com/2025/07/1... · Posted by u/rntn
alganet · 2 months ago
I'm having a hard time understanding your imagined scenario.

Can you please explain it better?

fuzzzerd · 2 months ago
NK "fake employee" finds a non technical American to run their laptop farm by lying to them that running these laptops is helping make their access to some service faster.
fuzzzerd commented on The North Korean fake IT worker problem is ubiquitous   theregister.com/2025/07/1... · Posted by u/rntn
NitpickLawyer · 2 months ago
> Why this is being discussed publicly? It seems way more reasonable to inform IT companies directly, or investigate it outside media attention.

One key component for this scheme to work is to have local US persons act as intermediaries. While some may already know something shady is going on, and be complicit, some might not understand the entire scope of what they're being part of. Publicly discussing it might encourage some people to come forward / avoid being involved in the future.

fuzzzerd · 2 months ago
Living up to your screen name I see, but in all seriousness, I fully agree. The average person running the laptops in a spare bedroom may have no idea the scope of what they're involved with. Especially if they're being duped as well.

Imagine a non technical person being told they're helping run an "edge data center, close to the users. Running our laptops helps Netflix/facebook/etc (insert big tech name of your choice) run faster for you and your neighbors and well pay you to do it."

Easy to imagine a non technical person buying that lie.

u/fuzzzerd

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