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> You cannot prompt Claude better than your customer can

That is simply and obviously not true. Technical expertise is still highly relevant when prompting, reviewing, understanding consequences, and approving.

sisyphus15on GPT-6 Sol and Luna

Sol is OpenAI's Opus, and Astra is OpenAI's Fable. Both pricing-wise, and performance-wise.

sisyphus15on Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

Completely wrong generalization.

I'm a person who is over-reliant on LLMs, doesn't know how most of the things in the codebase work, and is atrophying both in programming and in general cognition.

I used to care, a lot. And I still do.

sisyphus15on A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome

https://aloutfi.com/writing/load-bearing-smoking-gun

I love it.

sisyphus15on How Claude marks AI-generated content

You are aware that Claude already doesn't choose the most probable token, right? That's literally what the temperature parameter means. It picks tokens at random (from the list of most probable next tokens), increasingly so as the temperature goes up. This has always been the case. And now, with the watermarking, it will simply go from random to pseudo-random, adding some patterning.

There isn't any effect on the quality or precision of the output. Nothing changes in practice.

sisyphus15on AI opens new era in cognitive studies of wild primates

... In real life ...

sisyphus15on AI opens new era in cognitive studies of wild primates

What about the fact that he *looks* human through and through? That's generally an indicator with ~100% prediction success.