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Opus 4.whatever (it was last week) via a command line interface in the IntelliJ Claude plugin.

The series of prompts weren't particularly interesting or innovative on my part: a paste in of the user report then a few back and forths on fixing it, me reviewing the changes and coming up with the final answer.

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It might feel interesting, but it's sort of the crux of the issue. Average or below average prompts will produce average below-average results. The model can't make up for that.

Not saying every problem can or should be solved but AI, but mastery of the tools is kind of important when evaluating the tools. It's like complaining that vi or emacs is slow to use because of the bindings are complicated.

idk i think i'm pretty good w/AI in general, e.g. designed these using it:

https://mtmc.cs.montana.edu

https://bcp.cs.montana.edu

but we can all be better i guess

bcp link is dead

sorry:

https://bdp.cs.montana.edu

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