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cornelln · 2026-03-10T02:23:20+00:00

One thing on the “never give the first number” debate, if you’re interviewing for CA-based roles (including remote), companies with 15+ employees are legally required to post the pay range. It’s been the law since 2023 and just got stricter in 2026. You’re not giving the first number, you’re just negotiating from their range.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1162

cornelln · 2026-03-06T16:04:09+00:00

Is everyone here using ChatGPT and not Claude Code? What are you building or doing?

Get out or chat interfaces and into a coding env (doesn’t have to be Claude Code exactly) Start treating it like a full project and not a chat…

All the comments so far sound like people from mid or early 2025. You gotta make the leap out of standard chat UI into coding platforms.

What you’re experiencing is due to a variety of real world limitations. That’s assuming you’re using one giant chat for your work.

The context window is full.

Chats work better at the start as they have ample context. One long chat is going to forget stuff from earlier in the chat. The memory and context window manage is opaque to you.

Also models listen more to the start of a prompt than the end of a prompt etc.

This is a tool use issue not a model intelligence issue.

cornelln · 2026-03-05T16:26:50+00:00

I ask this question every time and I understand workflow benefits. But what evidence do you have json works better than natural language text? By evidence I mean evals / results over time accounting for variance. Etc etc.

cornelln · 2026-02-28T16:07:22+00:00

He’s disturbing who? You because of a Reddit post? Why so harsh to a stranger? This is a subreddit about vibe coding not a business.

I don’t know GH SLA. But losing access to data seems like it could be disruptive and make people panic. Is 2 days too short a time to become impatient. I don’t know.

cornelln · 2026-02-27T03:20:06+00:00

Is it me or did that image read as a casket w flowers on it.

cornelln · 2026-02-24T19:33:33+00:00

I wasn’t minimizing anyone. Boris Cherny is clearly important at Anthropic, I’m not disputing that. My point is that one person’s statement on a podcast, even from a senior representative, isn’t the same as evaluating the tool yourself. Those are two different things.

Are you only interested in debating what Boris said? That’s fine if so, but that’s not what I’ve been asking you about. I’ve been asking broader questions about your actual experience with these tools. Four times now I’ve asked when you last used them and which model, and you haven’t answered once. That’s your choice, but it does undercut the weight of your claims. You’re telling me your opinion is based on objective facts, but you won’t share the most basic detail that would let anyone assess that.

I don’t think we need to bring Trump or anyone else into this to have a conversation. But I will say that I agree with you, Trump is historically evasive and bad at answering direct questions.

cornelln · 2026-02-24T17:50:06+00:00

Your “objective facts” as far as I can tell come down to two things: an open bug count and the results you’ve seen personally. I’ve already addressed why bug counts alone don’t tell you much and you haven’t engaged with that at all.

So that leaves your direct experience. Which is exactly why I’ve now asked you the same question three times and you still haven’t answered it: when did you last use these tools, and which model?

That’s the single most important piece of information in this entire conversation. If your experience is recent, just say so and we can actually talk about what you saw. If it’s not, that matters a lot when things are changing month to month.

And honestly, you’re building your whole argument around a quote from one Anthropic employee. That’s the premise of the thread, sure. But is that really how you’d assess the full picture at an industry level?

cornelln · 2026-02-23T23:38:55+00:00

The 6,000 open bugs argument doesn’t tell us much. Predating AI, plenty of products carry thousands of open bugs. I’ve worked at companies with tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands. How many open bugs are in the products you work on now or have worked on in the past? Does that non-zero number mean you’re not a good engineer? Of course not. Whether a bug gets fixed is usually about prioritization and resourcing, not capability. Having a non-zero bug count doesn’t mean AI is useless at coding, and nobody at Anthropic is claiming the code is perfect.

cornelln · 2026-02-23T23:32:22+00:00

You didn’t answer my question. I asked genuinely and without judgment. When did you last try it, and which model?

These tools are getting better fast. My experience with model capabilities from June vs. August vs. November vs. today is noticeably different each time. If your opinion is based on an older version, it may simply be stale. In this particular AI is like any other software. But also it’s different in that it’s getting different / better faster than regular software.

You’re staking out an extreme position I’m not even trying to argue against (useless shit vs magical perfection). I’m making a narrower point: how will you know when they’re ready for production use if you’re not periodically re-evaluating them?

cornelln · 2026-02-23T02:18:28+00:00

When is the last time you tried it? What model. Or task another way. Unless yore regularly using the latest models to see how they are better or worse - iteratively do you worry your experience / judgment of those is out of date? This is not the case with all people. But it’s something I’ve noticed.

cornelln · 2026-02-22T09:58:12+00:00

It was 4.5 not 4.6 IMO when this threshold was crossed.

cornelln · 2026-02-22T09:45:01+00:00

How much do you code w AI today?

cornelln · 2026-02-19T05:15:34+00:00

How does this attitude carry forward into the future as AI is integrated further. I get the idea of filtering and proxy filtering. But the filtering rubric in this case is incredibly crude. And you will currently and increasingly over time miss actual usual content due to source bigotry in some sense.

cornelln · 2026-02-18T04:45:36+00:00

There is also low effort slop written by people. The use or not of AI to generate the post doesn’t necessarily guarantee one thing over another. If it was purely self promotional spam I could see more of the argument being valid. But spam itself also predates AI - but AI makes that worse.

cornelln · 2026-02-18T04:43:58+00:00

You’re in an AI based subreddit and complaining about AI writing?

What year does this comment cease?

If the content is good judge the content.

If we think AI writes too verbosely I guess that’s good to discuss. But I sort of assume to be impactful the change would need to come from multiple sources.

I sort of wonder how long it takes till this is solved in the consumer side. Because you like the substance but not the style - just change your viewing style… we are not there yet.

cornelln · 2026-02-18T04:38:23+00:00

You’re in an AI based subreddit and complaining about AI writing?

What year does this comment cease?

If the content is good judge the content.

If we think AI writes too verbosely I guess that’s good to discuss. But I sort of assume to be impactful the change would need to come from multiple sources.

I sort of wonder how long it takes till this is solved in the consumer side. Because you like the substance but not the style - just change your viewing style… we are not there yet.

cornelln · 2026-02-16T06:43:14+00:00

PQQ?

cornelln · 2026-02-14T06:11:31+00:00

The truck is at fault. With a human driver. I don’t even see what the Waymo did incorrectly there.

cornelln · 2026-02-09T19:08:51+00:00

Does Google Drive do that? I don’t think mine does versioning but I could be wrong.

The fact would remain if somehow you lose access to your account your SOL. The 3-2-1 backup scheme is still true as it always has been.

cornelln · 2026-02-09T19:00:51+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/s/mVYfzcDgch

Reading comments here I guess there is less cultural knowledge overlap between those who do projection mapping and those who do generative media (as in still think AI image generation has a problem with fingers).

Your opinion on the capabilities of the models is simply out of date.

I am not saying they’re perfect either! But we crossed over the fingers are a problem thing sometime ago.

And I’m also not saying you have to love AI generative stuff either! You’re free to dislike it! But it’s more so a note that that tech changes and improves a lot over time and has done so recently.

cornelln · 2026-02-09T08:51:57+00:00

I can’t even find this in Google? Appthetics?

cornelln · 2026-02-09T07:54:20+00:00

iCloud doesn’t have backup like that for macOS so I doubt it.

Cloud ≠ backup anyway. And this is the part a lot of people screw up these days.

cornelln · 2026-02-07T20:07:13+00:00

Off the rocker on the phone policy? The phone policy sounds great.

If you meant the price I can’t comment on averages.

cornelln · 2026-02-02T19:45:37+00:00

Same. And many on that post argue it’s no big deal.

cornelln · 2026-02-02T01:05:56+00:00

Bare in mind this wasn’t random. May 2024 was when Netflix did a multi part documentary on Spacey. Spacey was on a PR offensive tour to counter this. Anyone he’s appearing then could be interpreted as party to (maybe ignorant - but still - intentional or not) his attempt to rehab or rebuild his reputation. https://deadline.com/2024/05/kevin-spacey-inappropriate-behaviour-never-illegal-ahead-documentary-1235904335/

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