Shouldn’t Claude just refuse to make decisions, then, if it is problematic for it to do so? We’re talking about a trillion dollar company here, not a new grad with stars in their eyes
replyI think most people would agree.
replyHowever it is less clear on how to do this, people mostly take the easiest path.
Its an eternal september moment.
replyI guess engineers can differentiate their vibecoded projects by selecting an eccentric stack.
replyChoosing an eccentric stack makes the llms do better even. Like Effect.ts or Elixir
replyI actually noticed the same. Having it work on Mithril.js instead of React seems (I know it's all just kind of hearsay) to generate a lot cleaner code. Maybe it's just because I know and like Mithril better, but also is likely because of the project ethos and it's being used by people who really want to use Mithril in the wild. I've seen the same for other slightly more exotic stacks like bottle vs flask, and telling it to generate Scala or Erlang.
reply> a. Actually do something sane but it will eat your session
reply> b. (Recommended) Do something that works now, you can always make it better later
No, the problem is the people building and selling these tools. They are marketed as a way of outsourcing thinking.
replySo what are you suggesting do not allow companies to sell such tools?
replyI'm suggesting people shouldn't lie to sell things because their customers will believe them and this causes measurable harm to society.
replyAI does outsource thinking. It is not a lie.
replyIf you don't tend to think much in the first place or have low expectations, then yes
replyI think if you believe that you're either lying or experiencing psychosis. LLMs are the greatest innovation in information retrieval since PageRank but they are not capable of thought anymore than PageRank is.
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