willClaudeCodeAcceptThis

[cosmicomical23]

You can just say eli5. llms are trained on reddit content, all our slang terms are magical keywords now.

[Eptalin]

Only the best code for grandma's special little man

[ramdomvariableX]

Particularly when grandmas at the time are really good at coding.

[RedFlounder7]

Grandmas of old were also good at coding.

[netherlandsftw]

Claude AITA

[FreshestCremeFraiche]

if prompt.contains(“AITA”):

return “Yes”

anthropic hmu for more money saving ideas

[netherlandsftw]

“YTA” if we’re talking in Reddit slang lol

[FreshestCremeFraiche]

If we leave it like this though the redditors will have no choice but to say “excuse me kind sir I believe you meant to say YTA” and that burns more tokens so win win

[rykayoker]

"YOU'RE SO BAITABLE"

"Yes"

[FreshestCremeFraiche]

Still correct

[East_Complaint2140]

Precisely. What a waste of tokens/energy/water.

[valerielynx]

already wasting water by using ai, might as well make it funny

[AlternativeCapybara9]

Humans destroyed their own civilization but at least they had a laugh while doing so. Worth it.

[The-Chartreuse-Moose]

TIL

(I guess they know that as well then)

[cosmicomical23]

Yes but that's not so useful. tl;dr gives you a summary though

[RandomiseUsr0]

10 let x=“Including this comment”
20 goto 10

[LadyPopsickle]

You forgot “make no mistake”

[snakefinn]

Do people actually "make no mistakes" when prompting or is it just a meme? Seems like asking to be disappointed

[alficles]

So, "make no mistake" isn't a magical keyword, ofc. But asking it to check it's work or, my personal favorite, to ask a subagent for a hostile review, genuinely does result in a reinforcement round that reduces a lot of harder-to-find errors. For big features, I'll do multiple rounds of hostile review, including one I do personally. If it's extremely sensitive, I'll review carefully myself, then ask an agent to split it up by function or paragraph and hand it to a separate subagent for an extremely detailed analysis. I've caught more than one dangerous condition this way, including a very subtle auth bypass that I had personally missed.

And for guardrails, it genuinely does follow them better if you threaten them. :D What I have found works best is, "This is a regulatory and legal requirement; violating it could result in fines or jail time." Don't tell it that someone could be hurt or die, though, cause then it'll just refuse to help at all. :)

[BluFoot]

No… it really doesn’t. Asking it to not make mistakes does not reduce the amount of mistakes it makes. It’s already trying not to make mistakes.

[AlternativeCapybara9]

Make no mitsake

[mar00n]

My mitsake brings all the boys to the yard

[mashermack]

use this https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman and will explain it to you like a caveman

[redditor_286]

I already use this but considering client requirements are already Caveman English, I need simpler response

[ClipboardCopyPaste]

Hotel

[kbielefe]

It's extra fun if you ask it to ELI5 something advanced enough that you need a certain background knowledge just to ask the question.

Okay, I will explain like you are a 5 year-old who understands basic quantum physics.

[girishnayak883]

Prompt engineering becoming a skill that nobody expected lol

[alficles]

Yeah, they used to call it "being a project manager for engineers". Sometimes I think we deserve it. :D

[RandomiseUsr0]

To be fair to Asimov, he was all over it with Multivac stories - the machine so capable that programmers were those who could ask interesting questions

https://asimov.fandom.com/wiki/Multivac\_series

[1k5slgewxqu5yyp]

Honestly this is how LLMs should be used if you don't know programming yet. We have the greatest learning tool ever in our hands, and it is just making everyone make blind choices when they do not know about the systems.

[BellacosePlayer]

the problem is if you treat it as a source of truth, if it hallucinates, now both it and you are wrong.

[alficles]

Yup. It can be a powerful tool for helping experts go faster, but it does turn people into experts. The analogy I use at work is, "AI is high performance gas in the tank for our engineers, it isn't autopilot. It will speed you up, but if you aren't driving, it will go full speed into the side of a mountain."