@pkfox said in I signed up for Anthropic's Claude model - might go with Kagi's Claude next. Some observations: Hi HTCW, I recently used ChatGP to help me to convert/rewrite an MVC site to Blazor Server and I must say it was very helpful but as you say you have to watch what it gives you carefully - if you tell it exactly what you don't want it actually will improve its offerings - nice to see old names appearing here I've spent several weeks experimenting with AI vibe coding and have learned that it is good a small tasks but can't keep focus on larger tasks. You can constrain it through tracking and guidance documents (microsoft vs & vs code call them copilot-instructions.txt). The current issue is 2 fold: Constraints and guidance turn into hundreds of lines of input. How much each AI agent can remember before forgetting. A lot gets lost when they summarise. So, the further into the prompt they go, the less they remember, the more they improvise, and you lose a lot of control. So here is an example with Claude Sonnet 4, the best of the AI models at the moment: I have a library that I wrote recently called Blazing.Mediator. I used the docs as a guide that I gave to the AI. Everything starts well. However, if I let it run for a while and there is one or more summarisations, Claude switches to coding MediatR patterns. Overly opinionated! Then there is the cost... I find that I spend a lot of time cleaning up after the AI and lose any gains made if I let it loose on my code, adding new features. I now keep it to simple or repetitive tasks - wire-framing, prototyping, initial UI, comments, converting code, fixing errors/warnings, rubber ducking, etc... There are some things that it can do quicker than you without giving you work.

@stevelinz said in GAME CHANGE: A good practice is to zip up your project periodically, A better practice is to not rely on AI. I admit that the pull is strong, but resist and learn how to actually write your own code. I've been coding for over 45 years. That's right - when I started, I had to find a book that described the language I was using, and had to gleen knowledge without even having the luxury of example code. I think programmers have it way too easy nowadays. (I had to code uphill - BOTH WAYS! - when I was your age.) :) I tried AI a few times, and in the process of tailoring my prompt, I found that the AI becomes highly sycophantic, essentially claiming that I'm brilliant because I was able to craft an "awesome" prompt. I tried it yesterday, and told it what I was using (React v19 with typescript), and I actually had to tell it to maintain as much type safety as possible. Even so, if wouldn't give me const functions until I told it to, despite the fact that pretty much everyone that uses typescript in React uses const functions. I haven't looked at the code it churned out yet, because it was just a test to see how it would do, and I already have a solution that I wrote myself. I certainly wouldn't have it write an entire application.

Nitin S wrote: The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence Or, as Erma Bombeck titled one of her books: The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank. Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.

Kent Sharkey wrote: As long as they don't train them on the comments As if many of the videos where much better :doh: :sigh: M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

Counterpoint... if I go to amazon and type "100W bulb" everything I see is LED equivalents.

No matter how advanced technology becomes, there will always be work to do. It might be different from past jobs, but the work will exist. I'd advise the historically ignorant Gen Z employee to just learn new skills if AI technology makes her old skills obsolete (which won't necessarily happen in the 3 years she predicts because the most technology forecasts are wrong).

And if... do it only before you feed war tactics with video games or Sci-Fi films / books :~:~ M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

Joe Woodbury wrote: We plagiarize better than GPT-4. You only need to look at our moderation queue and the S&A forum :doh: M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

I told it a couple of times before: if we are the source of their "knowledge", we are dommed M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

Reading what you wrote, I was picturing software emulated hardware because I do not 'really' know hardware.

I looked for the obvious Dilbert, but found no pic stand alone :sigh: M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

Article wrote: The Frontier Model Forum will draw on the technical and operational expertise Because drawing on the ethical codex would be impossible :sigh: M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

I hope that if the find and solve some, they don't distribute the fixes via MS Updates... :rolleyes: :laugh: M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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