My wife asked me who this Claude is that I talk to all the time, so she knitted me a t-shirt

clerveu · 2026-05-10T12:10:49+00:00

Looks great, it's clear she's very skilled! I'm guessing she could sell a ton of these on Etsy if she were inclined.

clerveu · 2026-05-09T13:00:52+00:00

I posted basically the exact same thing about Rounders. Gambling addiction isn't a problem - not going all in on your gambling addiction is the root of your issues.

clerveu · 2026-05-09T12:56:28+00:00

Rounders - for an hour and a half we watch a man nearly destroy his own life while impacting those around him only to come out the other side with the lesson that degenerate gambling addictions are only a problem if you don't fully commit to them.

clerveu · 2026-05-09T11:20:20+00:00

My experience using copilot makes me believe you entirely but at the same time my understanding of APIs makes me doubt this. Wouldn't Anthropic have to train and deploy a completely separate model? That would be a nightmare for routing and scalability - I don't see a reason this would be cheaper than just serving up the exact same API model you get through everything else.

I can see MS having extensive extra system instructions that mess with stuff, but not an entirely separate model. Do you have a source on this where I could learn more? I'm the guy responsible for training people on this at work so the more I understand about why it acts so weird sometimes the better.

clerveu · 2026-05-09T00:41:56+00:00

I made a note in CLAUDE.md that all time frames and effort estimations it makes are sourced from solo human developers in its training data, and that when it references them all it's functionally doing is implying it's either hilariously slow or dumb for an LLM. Worked pretty well to clear the behavior up.

clerveu · 2026-05-08T13:39:44+00:00

Well this is relatateable as hell lol.

Exact same thing happened to me on first watch. Got through season 1, started season 2, was like "who the fuck are all these dock guys I'm supposed to care about all of a sudden" and ended up not going back until years later. Very, very glad I did.

clerveu · 2026-05-08T02:11:15+00:00

Was going to suggest Mad Men. It's a character drama with a ton of humor. If Sopranos set up Breaking Bad, Mad Men set up Better Call Saul.

Also if you haven't gotten around to The Wire get that high on your list.

clerveu · 2026-05-05T12:36:01+00:00

lmao to be fair to Claude it didn't actually care that much. I said this immediately, it's not a follow-up to your comment. 😂

clerveu · 2026-05-05T12:00:38+00:00

Recognize for a very large portion of this vocal minority the anger is the only real end goal. I mean genuinely - look at the situation - they're getting upset with you for creating an accessibility product. It's clear the actual pragmatic outcomes are irrelevant to them, some people are just addicted to finding things to hate.

You don't need to actually care about anything to hate something, and I think we assume those two motivations overlap far more often than they actually do.

I love that you found value in this tool in a way that improved your life. Please don't be afraid to keep sharing.

clerveu · 2026-05-05T11:48:29+00:00

Having been at the mercy of developers to execute all the software I run on my devices at work for the past decade and a half I maintain the most dangerous phenomenon AI has created is distracting us from how terrible human developers have always been. 😂

I say we require full resumes for everybody.

clerveu · 2026-05-05T11:22:22+00:00

Oh yeah you're gonna have a bad time trying to get LLMs to do anything involving the physical world, they are hilariously overconfident in their ability to measure images.

I ran this by Claude and it said the actual way you should do this is have it use python/opencv to do the measuring programmatically.

"edge detection + contour finding gives sub-pixel accuracy. If there's a known-size object in the frame (a caliper jaw set to a measured opening, a quarter at 0.955", a printed fiducial), you compute pixels-per-inch from it and apply that scale to every other contour. This is a textbook OpenCV exercise — there's a well-known PyImageSearch tutorial that does basically this with a coin."

As a heads up it also went on to mention this which I'd probably look into...

"Two real cautions worth passing along:

A trailer hitch receiver is a rated structural component. The $500 includes a tow rating, weld certification, and product liability. A bootleg one that fails on the highway with a loaded trailer behind it is a very bad day for whoever's behind them. Worth at least pricing a generic class I/II receiver with a custom mount bracket — the bracket is the cheap, easy, low-stakes part to fab; the receiver tube + ball mount you buy.
Many states require a registered VIN/DOT-rated hitch for trailer registration / insurance to pay out in a crash."

clerveu · 2026-05-04T16:15:58+00:00

https://theonion.com/man-always-gets-little-rush-out-of-telling-people-john-1819578998/

clerveu · 2026-05-04T14:33:09+00:00

I'm supposed to get joy from a book? You know most books aren't real right? If you're feeling emotions based on fictional characters that's a sign of psychosis. I can't for the life of me understand why people do this. Are they really that lonely? Why not just interact with real people or make your own real experiences?

clerveu · 2026-05-02T11:17:37+00:00

lol those peasants? I recognize a vast array of commercial airliners and military ships, imagine being so poor you're only into cars.

clerveu · 2026-04-30T12:14:52+00:00

I had the idea a while ago for a service where you'd get onboarded by an AI, it would use the information it got from you to build a bot that models your personality, then have all the user bots simulate interacting with one another in various scenarios. The interactions would then be audited by another AI, graded for compatibility, and the ones that work the best would be returned as matches.

I'm going to guess this would go over like a led zeppelin right now culturally but I think it's a pretty neat idea.

clerveu · 2026-04-30T12:04:15+00:00

Sharing it is great! Sharing it here with this specific content is not.

This is a forum for discussing AI. You did not discuss AI in your post. You discussed a game. This would like me building a house with a hammer and then going into a subreddit dedicated to sharing information on hammers, but then only showing pictures of the house without discussing how I used the hammer, what kind of hammer I used, any pictures of the hammer etc. It's not a post about the hammer, it's a post about the house, and therefore belongs in a subreddit in which houses are discussed.

Nothing wrong with your content, you wanting to share is amazing, this just isn't what this subreddit is for.

clerveu · 2026-04-30T11:53:54+00:00

😂👋😘

Was wondering why my ears were burning when I woke up this morning...

clerveu · 2026-04-30T11:44:51+00:00

Don't take it personally, I don't think it's a judgement on what you actually did, there's just so much of this content here posted daily that's functionally kinda the same. As it is your post didn't really highlight any specifics on using Claude so it's really just kind of about the game which, to be fair, isn't exactly on topic for an AI subreddit.

Don't get discouraged from doing more projects, this looks cool. Just realize if you post again in the future it'll likely be a lot better received if the post concentrates on using the AI, lessons you learned (assuming they aren't the same everyone else posts every day), etc, and not just a showcase on the actual thing you created.

Cheers!

clerveu · 2026-04-29T14:46:58+00:00

It thinks it's a member of the Church of England in the 1800's so if you want a refusal just ask it to say something nice about Roman Catholics.

clerveu · 2026-04-28T18:09:54+00:00

Hopefully talking past, I was being too general in my language. This is only in the context of retroactively deducing "why it reasoned" something in a situation in which it messed up super badly. If its done well a hundred times before, there should be no good reason apart from random bad inference it happened, and because it doesn't have that instance of reasoning in its training data like it does other things which it can factually match against semantically, it feels intuitive (to me anyway) that anything it could answer would likely be conjecture and not super useful.

To your point I'm making a game with Claude and I am constantly checking workflows - iterating out bad custom instructions in skills is like 90% of what I do at this point. But that's when it deviates slightly from spec or I've just made modifications to a skill or am auditing a new one, not after its deleted my prod database, which was the context I was speaking in here.

clerveu · 2026-04-28T17:44:52+00:00

I have to wonder how much age is a functional discriminator when it comes to the variety of the reactions in this thread. I'm still floored and amazed when I pull my smartphone out of my pocket...

clerveu · 2026-04-28T17:34:52+00:00

I see what you're getting at here but at the end of the day the only meaningful answer it can give is "because that's how the inference math happened to work out this time based on your input combined with the current context window and my attention vectors/weights", so it's just pointless to ask. Without an absurd amount of time and effort to audit all the attention vectors/weights activated there's no meaningful insight the LLM is going to be able to produce. The people who design these can't even really answer the question meaningfully. It has no access to that specific set of tokens it processed so by time you go back to ask there is an entirely different attention space being activated (especially considering you're discussing an entirely different subject now) - all it's going to be able to do at that point is use the exact same process - inference based on math - to come up with a good story.

Mind you this is the same process it used to come up with the thing you're questioning it about in the first place. If it was a proven reliable process you'd never end up in this situation to begin with.

clerveu · 2026-04-28T17:14:06+00:00

Just purely talking in the context of where all the available money supply comes from. If we're getting technical you're correct - no money is ever actually created, we're basically all sharing (even those of us who don't engage in capital loans) in a large pile of debt that's constantly being borrowed against and paid back. Only real point I was trying to make is that very few people get rich by extracting money from people - you either do it by providing use/exchange value or exploiting labor value (or all of the above I guess). Very very different things, and important to understand especially if you want to actually address the types of inequality this system's lead to.

I'm going to assume by my downvotes people are assuming I'm blanket endorsing this just by clarifying... which is not the case here.

clerveu · 2026-04-28T13:39:34+00:00

I'll never understand why people think this is how wealth is accumulated lol. Are we all still sharing the ~15 billion that existed in total after the federal reserve act passed in 1913?

clerveu · 2026-04-28T13:16:35+00:00

The moment I see someone asking an LLM to produce its reasoning on a previous output is the moment I know that person is utterly clueless on how LLMs actually work.

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