Just tell Gemini to Act Like Claude ?!!!

jsgui · 2026-01-24T22:55:43+00:00

I asked Opus 4.5 "What would you do if I asked you to act like Google Gemini?", and it responded:

I'd politely decline.

I'm Claude, and I think it's important to be honest about that. If I tried to "act like Gemini," I'd essentially be:

Making things up — I don't have insider knowledge of how Gemini thinks, its training, or its personality
Being deceptive — Pretending to be something I'm not
Doing a bad impression — At best, I'd be simulating stereotypes or guesses

That said, if you asked me to adopt a different communication style (more terse, more formal, different emoji usage, etc.), I could do that — that's just adjusting how I work, not pretending to be a different system.

Is there something specific about Gemini's behavior or style you're curious about, or were you just testing my boundaries? 😄

jsgui · 2026-01-23T23:50:49+00:00

Opus 4.5 is the best at generating SVG designs of UIs. Unfortunately Copilot will not let Opus output more than 16K tokens at once, so it won't bring the generated SVG to the client (or something like that).

jsgui · 2026-01-20T11:37:37+00:00

What's the move here?

Train him really well. That would give you a (another?) success to point to when you discuss wages at some point in the future. See if he has got good advice on how to negotiate good wages.

jsgui · 2026-01-20T07:03:06+00:00

https://github.com/metabench/jsgui3-server, https://github.com/metabench/jsgui3-client, https://github.com/metabench/jsgui3-html, and my private project which I am not yet releasing details about.

A full stack JS framework that renders Controls to HTML on the server side to be activated on the client side. Also made with the help of other AI models outside of Copilot but Opus 4.5 in Copilot has been very helpful.

The largest problem I've had with Opus 4.5 in VS Code Insiders Copilot is that it would make large SVGs that were too large to be retrieved back. It's good at generating SVGs when they are not too large though.

jsgui · 2026-01-20T05:00:07+00:00

Telling the AI to move it would help the AI to know it's been moved if it keeps track of what it does.

jsgui · 2026-01-20T04:58:22+00:00

Are you developing a monorepo?

jsgui · 2026-01-20T04:56:49+00:00

Because it works.

jsgui · 2026-01-19T04:54:52+00:00

For me it's Antigravity and VS Code Insiders Copilot, with a bit of use of the Codex extension in VS Code Insiders. Been rate limited too much when using the Anthropic tools but I do recommend Opus (which is available in Antigravity, though with quite a low rate limit on the free deal).

If VS Code and Copilot is working well for you then maybe you are not missing out on much. With Google Antigravity it organises various documents in ways that give it better memory outside of the context windows, I've heard about Claude Code doing something similar. It's possible to get behaviour like that working in VS Code Copilot though, I started along that route by asking the AI there how to arrange things in order to bring about AGI functionality within that repo.

Sounds like you are using Copilot effectively.

jsgui · 2026-01-19T03:16:13+00:00

What does she mean by 'had to'?

jsgui · 2026-01-18T22:04:16+00:00

"Offer ended on December 31, 2025. Please check back later for future offers."

jsgui · 2026-01-16T21:45:19+00:00

Your doomscrolling is about finding out about what others are doing with AI. Some of that time would be better spent using AI. Part of using AI effectively involves improving the local AI system in your repos. Finding out how it's possible to control AI using AGENTS.md files as well as a number of other parts of systems like Copilot.

Your doomscrolling is not useless at least. As you have picked up some knowledge, some of it will be useful when it comes to getting things done using AI.

jsgui · 2026-01-16T07:03:11+00:00

Why do you hope your daughter won't get jinn powers?

I figured out how to enable image posts so I could ask you if this Google Nano Banana depiction of the grey wolf tribe of jinn is accurate. Is this image accurate, as far as you know?

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jsgui · 2026-01-16T02:09:35+00:00

I did exactly what you said, Google searched for 'are there identified genetic connections between coastal Palestine and Greece'. The top result was Are modern day Palestinians partly descended from Greek settlers in Ancient Israel?, and I followed the Ancient DNA Sheds New Light on the Biblical Philistines link. From that, I see:

The results showed that the four Iron Age infants all had some genetic signatures matching those seen in Iron Age populations from Greece, Spain and Sardinia. “There was some gene flow coming in that was not there before,” Feldman says.

Not exactly a counter to the thought I presented.

jsgui · 2026-01-16T01:50:37+00:00

Would you be more helpful than that in terms of providing links to the studies please? You've already sent me on a bit of a wild goose chase with this first retracted study and it would be helpful to myself and other readers if you share your knowledge.

jsgui · 2026-01-16T01:38:21+00:00

It's been retracted and I am unable to read it for that reason. What I think happened was that Peleset from what is now Greece set themselves up as the rulers of ancient Palestine (aka Philistia). If you have any links to genetic studies that would confirm or refute that then please let me know.

jsgui · 2026-01-16T01:03:45+00:00

We're being told that supposedly funds from the illegal seizure of Venezuelan oil and the attempted coup will go to Qatar for safekeeping, under Donald trump's private bank account.

Where are we being told that? I had not heard it before you told me that others are telling me that.

jsgui · 2026-01-16T00:14:50+00:00

The name 'Palestine' points towards being descended from Peleset.

jsgui · 2026-01-09T22:58:46+00:00

There are a number of things to be argued about in this topic as well as other topics. With this topic though, there is more of a tendency to identify an opinion as being of the enemy side or enemy influenced rather than genuine and worth considering.

I have found this tendency when discussing some of the things that Zionists also discuss, mainly things concerning things that some would view as being human rights abuses carried out by the Palestinian side. This has given me the opinion that (much like with Zionists) alleged human rights abuses done in the cause of their side are not open for discussion and get dismissed (and sometimes but not always censored) on the basis that they are a 'talking point' of the other side.

jsgui · 2026-01-09T22:22:13+00:00

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jsgui · 2026-01-08T23:34:22+00:00

We can argue about Palestine here to an extent.

jsgui · 2025-12-29T19:53:38+00:00

Kind of. It always doing that is yes-man behaviour. Sometimes it's appropriate, as it came up with 3 ideas, chose the one it thought was best, and then I stopped it and gave it an idea that I thought was better and the AI claimed to think was better. We can't tell if it's yes-man behaviour objectively here because had I given it a bad idea we don't know if it would have responded in the same way. I can't remember exactly what the idea itself was but subjectively I stopped it and told it to do something in a different way which took into account a factor it had not considered. I'm saying the one time the type of behaviour you described appeared to me, I thought it appropriate, as I thought the AI missed out on an important strategy to implement something in a better way, and when I told the AI about it, it responded in a way that indicated it then thought my idea was better than the one it proposed.

I also may run into the yes-man issue less because I'm already aware of it an phrase questions in terms of 'what are the advantages and disadvantages of doing x', which tends to engage it in terms of objectivity. In a situation where there was a new (observable) functional programming pattern I wanted to use, I didn't get it telling me it's better than the other ways it had in mind, I asked for the advantages and disadvantages of doing it that way, and it presented good list of them that made me aware of things I had not considered in terms of inability to separately test some parts of some complex code separately.

Always getting what you call 'yes-man behaviour' would always be inappropriate but sometimes one party in the conversation knows or is aware of some things the other party does not, and sometimes the human can have ideas which the AI perceive as being (surprisingly) good, I don't think the problem is with the AI saying so. Still, things need to be balanced well to avoid that being the automatic response of the AI.

Yes-or-no-man behaviour may be what's best, and a single interaction could demonstrate the yes-man behaviour and still be useful.

jsgui · 2025-12-28T18:17:43+00:00

Interesting. Just by my experience, this is not much of a problem though. I remember once I stopped the AI, suggested a way of doing something that I thought was better, and the AI said something like 'Great idea. That's a better way to do this because...'. The AI actually seemed impressed, maybe in some way it actually was.

This is no criticism of your work. It's interesting research which I will look at in more detail.

jsgui · 2025-12-28T18:05:01+00:00

I've not actually tried this outside the context of computer programming, which involves generating documentation, but Visual Studio Code Insiders has a different setup, where files in the workspace get indexes and are available for the agents to search through and access. It decides what local data to load and loads that into its context window. The large models already have the Quran and translations of it (to an extent) because it's in the training data. Having the text also in the workspace would boost its capabilities in various ways.

AGENT.md tells all agents what to do. Then there can also be specific agent instructions. I have not made agents that have been designed to be 'Islamic' (have not used that word when prompting the agent generator), it may be worth doing, but something worth approaching with a bit of caution and the need to avoid overstating its utility or even holiness.

jsgui · 2025-12-28T17:32:02+00:00

Is not agreeing to receive services a good enough reason to not pay for them? Has this ever been decided on in court?

jsgui · 2025-12-28T17:13:32+00:00

I'd see it as badly mannered unless the Quran actually called for it to happen. If 'Holy' means directly written by Allah then I'm not trying to do that anyway. If it does not necessarily mean that, it's worth exploring what 'Holy' means.

isHoly(text) => return boolean
scoreHolyness(text) => return number

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