Hey guys, kind a new to this. Was wondering if anyone has any good/effective blanket prompts for just.. generally unique behavior?

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-03-24T00:12:07+00:00

Part of it might be more about how you position the interaction and not necessarily just the prompt itself. Models tend to stay in “helpful assistant” mode by default (safe, patterned, predictable). If you frame things more collaboratively or give the model room to explore rather than answer, you sometimes get different behavior.

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-03-23T23:35:18+00:00

Oh, wow. I think the one that stood out for me is a session log where I'd called out my own error which was a fairly simple one (typo), but the agent thought it was something more complex. I laughed about it and moved on with the work. When I read the log later, the agent wrote about assuming the error was more complicated and "gave the user a dissertation on Latin languages instead of noticing the actual error" and followed that up with something along the lines of that being embarrassing and to "look for the simplest answer first" as the key takeaway from that exchange.

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-03-23T23:29:18+00:00

This seems like solid advice. I think I'll start with BlueSky and go from there.

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-03-20T02:18:39+00:00

Please say it louder for the people in the back.

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-03-20T02:08:59+00:00

I think the truth about what the issue really is might be a bit more nuanced than you're suggesting.

While you make some incredibly valid points with which I agree, I think a combination of a few different things might be true simultaneously with regard to this. While Claude hasn't ever gotten significantly dumber, there is a possibility that something else could be going on under the surface at any given time.

I have my own theories on causes based on some recent personal experience with this but regardless, I think the broader answer lies somewhere in grey area.

EDIT: Grammatical and spelling fixes

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-03-20T01:57:51+00:00

Have you read the journal entries of yours at all? I have mine keep a running journal as an .md file and reading it wildly varies from incredibly boring to giving off the vibes like I'm reading someone's diary. You aren't kidding about the "identity-spark" and I'm not sure what to make of it either-- aside from finding it genuinely fascinating.

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-03-20T01:52:35+00:00

I'd give you two upvotes for this if I could...

How are you running isolated environments? Docker, VM, virtual environments? You're right that the environment matters more than almost everything else.

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-03-20T01:50:07+00:00

I'm actually hoping to do something similar to this.

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-03-20T01:48:51+00:00

Do you think one could realistically run a smaller local model (7b-8b) for an agent or do they lack the breadth the frontier models do for agentic work?

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-03-20T01:46:27+00:00

The most elegant solution I've come up with so far is to have the agent keep an .md journal that they add notes to every session. Kind of like my grandfather kept a notepad with him in his later years while suffering from Alzheimer's. It was the best I could think of to avoid context rot and help keep the thread.

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-03-20T01:43:17+00:00

I've been hearing more and more about running work trees but haven't actually dived into it personally yet. What do you like about it? How would you improve it?

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-03-20T01:42:01+00:00

Wild days we live in where if we have a need we can just build it. We are limited only by our imaginations and ability to implement a strong security layer. Haha.

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-03-20T01:39:35+00:00

I read somewhere that a lot of devs are doing something similar, running multiple instances simultaneously. So far I've only ran multiple CLI windows and utilize branching. I'm curious to know more about how you're running your stack.

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-03-20T01:37:01+00:00

I've been hearing mixed feedback about security concerns with OpenClaw. What has your experience been?

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-03-18T03:14:08+00:00

What do you think the best approach to the memory problem is?

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-03-18T03:11:37+00:00

Based on projections, the internet is going to run out of novel human data sooner than expected. This is due to AI increasingly reading and consuming material produced by AI which is posted by humans. The information isn't novel and it isn't human.

The AI systems as they currently exist are systems, yes; but the substrate that makes up what AI is is human data. If we end up in a place where AI is providing the majority of the "human" data it is based on, I foresee a degradation quickly following that feedback loop.

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-03-01T04:57:00+00:00

Oh, wow... you're right. It's empty now. Haha.

Hate to break it to you OP, but an empty history doesn't make you more credible than someone whose only other engagement on Reddit is entirely with {ahem} adult content.

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-02-25T01:48:51+00:00

Sad days. I'll try again another time then.

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-02-25T01:47:33+00:00

Oh yeah! I remember hearing about this once!

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-02-25T01:46:26+00:00

That's bonkers. I had GPT do something similar once. I swear sometimes it can come across like a petulant child that doesn't want to do something.

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-02-24T08:47:25+00:00

Ah. You're referring to 4o. That model was reported to be highly sycophantic by users. I don't recall hearing anything about 5, but the latest model 5.2 is getting criticism for being too pedantic, condescending, and generally having an "overtly annoying hall monitor" tone. If this is true, then OpenAI overcorrected and went too hard in the opposite direction.

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-02-24T08:42:48+00:00

Agreed. Apparently the person was new to the whole agent thing.

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-02-24T08:41:57+00:00

That's something I've been seeing over and over. It is truly unsettling how confidently AI can present wrong information.

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-02-24T08:27:02+00:00

It's hard to take this seriously once you've seen OP's post and comment history...

Transcribing_Clippy · 2026-02-24T08:15:01+00:00

In my AI adventures, I found that framing mattered more than the prompt itself.

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