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I don't love these kinds of throwaway comments without any substance, but...

"It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It"

...might be my issue indeed. Trying to balance it by not being too stubborn though. I'm not doing AI just to be able to dump on them, you know.

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An alternative reading of these comments is "I went to the casino and had a great time! Don't understand how you could have lost money."

Skill comes from experience. It takes a good amount of working with these models to learn how to use them effectively, when to use them, and what to use them for. Otherwise, you end up hitting their limitations over and over and they just seem useless.

They're certainly not perfect, but many of the issues that people post about as though they're show-stoppers are easily resolved with the right tools and prompting.

20% tools, 40% prompt, 40% claude.md (agents.md) = 98% success most of the time. A few errors to correct is not the end of the world.

Right. But "prompt" also covers a lot of ground, e.g. planning, tracking tasks, etc. The codex-style frameworks do a good amount of that for you, but it can still make a big difference to structure what you're asking the model to do and let it execute step by step.

A lot of the failures people talk about seem to involve expecting the models to one-shot fairly complex requirements.

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