> stop and ask questions if my intent was unclear,
> don't make assumptions without checking,
> and don't reinterpret or update my plans without asking.
these aren't at all the problems I have with it
I have found it good at asking questions, to the extent I rarely use 'plan mode' any more
but often it's hard to understand what it's asking me, it's like the question framing has been pulled from the middle of its own reasoning stream, references aren't anchored or restated, often I have to prompt it to ask again but "clearly and concisely, for humans"
I have these exact issues with GPT 5.6 Sol too. I haven't tried Opus 5, but I guess it's even worse.
"like the question framing has been pulled from the middle of its own reasoning stream" this describes how it asks things perfectly. It often invents its own jargon and abbreviations for things that its working on, then asking me things like We are nod in the middle of GBAPI-2 and I want to proceed with IG5, should we take CDI-7 or CDI-8? Where all of these abbreviations are then things like stages of its current internal plan or its naming of things it has just implemented, like an abbreviation of a classname, without explaining any of the naming.
I find the questions are not clearly asked and somehow half baked as caveats toward the middle end of what it’s vomiting.
“One thing I deliberately didn’t touch” — about half the time this is something completely irrelevant or something that is actually the target of whatever you’re working on, and the shakespearean prose it says around this phrase is a “question” it has.
I'd believe that the 90s on food industry was way worse than now in some ways, almost no control I suppose, already at least a decade of creating shareholders values etc.
They don't have to be perfectly innocent - it's still a big win if they were way more innocent, which they were. All kinds of products, from food to clothes, had better ingredients and fewer cheap substitutes.
Actually I do remember the clothes being better quality - I still own one of the t-shirts that was one of the first things I ever purchased over the internet, it is a bit worn out now but it's lasted an order of magnitude longer than any I had since
I'm skeptical about the food though, all the artificial ingredients and cheap substitutes were well under way by then
Yeah, I am a bit tired of all the "this is AI, meh" comments on HN but I nearly posted one myself on this... so weird to have it all written in the 1st person voice, but also clearly AI.
Dunno, I think it's still useful to expose slop, chances are that the actual product is low quality/effort as well (i.e I will not be wasting my time checking this project). On a personal note, I've gotten allergic to the word "honest", it's starting to feel like a large scale social engineering psy-op by the Honest Guys™.
If we did a numpad I would probably do it as a separate device. Personally I don't like how the numpad sits between the edge of my keyboard and mouse. I'd prefer it to the left of my keyboard or to the right side of my mouse.
It's usually one of two things. First, I say I want to build this system solving this problem with these requirements, what do you suggest? It suggests X, then I say, "Hmm, why not Y?" and it goes, "Oh yeah, Y is better," etc.
It's similar to the situation where you ask whether you should walk or take the car to go refill the car with gas. I feel LLMs have a linearity embedded in them that prevents them from finding non-linear, smart solutions, especially when data is scarce. They can probably get it done, but with far more complex solutions, which increases the risk of ending up with a crazy complex codebase when it could have been much simpler and more elegant.
The other situation is when I spot a problem or a feature change that's needed after experiencing the product, and I ask how to change the codebase, it suggests something, I say "why not this other thing," and then we do the other thing.
It’s a tool that does what you want not an opinionated senior dev. Ask it to research and do an evaluation on the pros and cons of choosing X over Y and it will do a fair job.
> don't make assumptions without checking,
> and don't reinterpret or update my plans without asking.
these aren't at all the problems I have with it
I have found it good at asking questions, to the extent I rarely use 'plan mode' any more
but often it's hard to understand what it's asking me, it's like the question framing has been pulled from the middle of its own reasoning stream, references aren't anchored or restated, often I have to prompt it to ask again but "clearly and concisely, for humans"
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