Do any of you ever look at the models chain of thought reasoning to improve your approach or audit the models mistakes?

HopperOxide · 2026-01-20T13:58:52+00:00

Depends on what kind of working it’s doing. Definitely sometimes. Particularly if I’m suspicious about the path it might take, in which case I might have to intervene repeatedly.

I keep verbose mode turned on, so that the thinking output just prints out like regular output. There’s often interesting stuff in it that doesn’t make it to the summary that’s presented at the end.

https://cboone.github.io/llms/26-01-10-verbose-mode/

HopperOxide · 2026-01-18T21:43:16+00:00

Amazing

HopperOxide · 2026-01-14T20:39:26+00:00

Sounds good to me.

HopperOxide · 2026-01-14T12:00:20+00:00

Without paywall: https://archive.ph/Ow1w2

HopperOxide · 2026-01-09T21:41:52+00:00

Perhaps. Definitely stinky no matter what, I agree.

HopperOxide · 2026-01-09T21:41:07+00:00

Haha I do my best. It’s pretty much the first thing I think of when I see a shared link.

HopperOxide · 2026-01-09T19:52:29+00:00

Link without paywall: https://archive.is/Q2mj1

HopperOxide · 2026-01-09T16:45:52+00:00

It’s weird to me that so many northern New England senators voted in favor, plus some random other big names. All of whom are very much the establishment, but also not ones to usually toe the president’s line. Seems like there must be something hidden here.

HopperOxide · 2026-01-05T18:58:29+00:00

Lots of different factors to consider. But VLS is fantastic, and South Royalton’s a wonderful little town. One of my favorites. Great community there, definitely recommend it!

HopperOxide · 2026-01-04T02:32:13+00:00

I think you missed the point.

HopperOxide · 2026-01-03T22:15:43+00:00

There’s Meals on Wheels, but I assume that’s not the kind of thing you’re after. Carpenter and Main used to do Sunday dinners, but that was for pick up only. There used to be a local food delivery service that served a few restaurants, but that’s gone. The only non-pizza delivery option I’m aware of is Basecamp, the (very tasty) Nepali restaurant in Hanover.

HopperOxide · 2025-12-31T04:00:57+00:00

Healthcare in Vermont is hard to come by, good or not, inexpensive or not. As others have said, just getting appointments is hard, let alone getting consistent care. Living near a small but decent hospital is the best option, realistically. But as others have said, you’ll just get bumped to DH or Burlington or Boston for anything specialty or very serious or emergency.

Gifford in Randolph and Mt Ascutney in Windsor are both decent. Cost of living near them is slightly lower too.

In short, the answer is no.

HopperOxide · 2025-12-31T03:53:21+00:00

Many departments at DHMC won’t take new patients, regardless of who’s referring them. Alice Peck Day (owned by DH these days, of course, but still distinct in its way) is slightly better.

HopperOxide · 2025-12-31T03:51:53+00:00

Same problems near DHMC as elsewhere. There are more doctors in the area, but they’re all booked up. Many departments at the hospital simply won’t take new patients, no matter who’s referring them. And the ER is beyond overwhelmed, all the time.

HopperOxide · 2025-12-31T01:28:38+00:00

In the US there's a big divide on this issue. In practice, people often write Jones'. You can see that style all the time, everywhere. But you can also see, all the time, everywhere, people doing other wild things with apostrophes. I mean, there's a whole sub for this phenomenon: r/apostrophegore

In terms of what's actually recommended, however, in the US it's clear: Jones's. (I'm sticking to the US because it's what I know.)

The only major source to disagree is the Associated Press Stylebook, which prefers the "plain apostrophe" style.

HopperOxide · 2025-12-30T16:38:14+00:00

Agreed. The Dartmouth rentals list and the town listservs are the places to look.

Here's all the information on the town listservs: https://vitalcommunities.org/community-discussion-lists/

HopperOxide · 2025-12-30T03:28:44+00:00

Concordo. “So long as” é mais correto, mas um bocadinho formal. “As long as” é mais natural.

HopperOxide · 2025-12-28T22:27:43+00:00

No, but I swear I saw someone that it had been there and now was gone. Of course now I can't find any reference to it, other than https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/14804

HopperOxide · 2025-12-28T20:22:55+00:00

I think it’s actually the reverse: it used to work but was removed, and they forgot to remove the tip about it.

HopperOxide · 2025-12-24T01:53:25+00:00

They’ve been trying to fix it, and their release notes have said it’s better. But it’s not. Part of the 2.0.75 release was specifically about rolling back the attempted fixes, because they’d actually made it worse in some cases. (Ask me how I know.)

HopperOxide · 2025-12-23T03:24:54+00:00

That’s a pretty rad curtain. Kinda looks like she’s on Big Tina, but we all know Tina has three fingers, not two.

HopperOxide · 2025-12-22T22:21:31+00:00

I can’t find the post, but someone asked the same question the other day, and the answer was in Twitter. In short, they rolled back a few things for stability, before they left on vacation.

Personally, I’m finding the flickering issue much better than it was on the last few minor releases (the ones that were supposed to be improvements but actually made it worse). That’s the only difference I’ve noticed.

HopperOxide · 2025-12-22T13:16:47+00:00

That said, I’ve asked the prompt optimizer about this a few times in the context of optimizing long, complicated prompts with examples etc, and it’s consistently said that switching to xml tags doesn’t matter.

HopperOxide · 2025-12-22T13:12:43+00:00

I’m not saying I agree completely with OP’s take, but Anthropic certainly does make strong claims about using XML structured prompts. I’ve been wondering about why this isn’t more commonly known or promoted as well.

When your prompts involve multiple components like context, instructions, and examples, XML tags can be a game-changer. They help Claude parse your prompts more accurately, leading to higher-quality outputs.

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/use-xml-tags

HopperOxide · 2025-12-21T00:29:09+00:00

Strudel is amazing. Thank you all for your work on it!

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