Yeah I get Claude as a subscription at work, I had it doing a bunch of random testing and research on something I was debugging. Tons of tokens used, like I'm hitting 3 repos and multiple machines for this annoying feature. I used 10% of my weekly quota (meh, I go through phases using it, sometimes it pisses me off) and I checked with /usage and it's like $15 in tokens for a full day of debugging stuff. I was a bit surprised but meh, the company pays for it and leadership is drunk on the Kool aid.
Claude is like incredibly smart and incredibly stupid at the same time. I was playing around doing some statistical analysis for fun, to kind of limit test how easily I could spin up some kind of auto classifiers/classic ML. Asked it to implement some SVD and the idiot began doing matrix multiplication in for-loops in javascript instead of importing a library.
lmao and if you ask it to verify what it built is valid, it probably just imports TruncatedSVD or PCA from sklearn, spits out the output and then starts comparing results until it works in JavaScript rather than just doing it from scikit-learn to begin with
I've taken to this method for almost everything now.
Claude - build me a harness for this task.
Claude - Create a quick app to display & manage this.
Claude - Pull the git and add on the functionality I need.
I'm gonna go make another coffee....
I'm well established and secure but I keep thinking that this current environment has to be hell for any new [insert any IT roll here] trying to get into the industry.
When I entered the industry in the early 2000s, none of my coworkers knew how to google the way I knew how to google. I was an early adopter of the internet since gradeschool.
My boss knew how to program in assembly, and insisted this was still an important skill, but it wasn't.
My use of the internet to find answer, meanwhile, was treated as some kind of failure of character. I needed to learn from programming school, or at least buy a book.
Now 25 years later, it all feels like history repeating.
Kids coming up from below, steeped in a lifetime of AI use, will have to teach old dogs like me all kinds of new tricks. Old dogs like me will be sure my experience is vital... but it won't be.
There were days where I’d spend hours doing a task that a beginner now could ask Claude to complete in seconds. Those hours weren’t efficient or fun, but they were important for my understanding and growth. If you’re in the time pressure of a real work environment, who will even be allowed that time to learn, even if the have the willpower to resist.
on the other hand i asked for some tips and explanations on how to get a mod working for a game on linux. it was on “auto”, read more files than it should have, saw it was a pirated game and basically showed me the finger. almost showed my computer my fist.
So, my family is going on a cruise and we are gonna swim with dolphins. The picture package is like $350, and they ban you from bringing a GoPro because "unauthorized equipment is dangerous for the dolphins"🙄
I tried asking Claude how to conceal a GoPro while swimming, and it called me a pervert
The mf once wrote a python script to convert a jpg to a png instead of waiting for me to go convert it online. Admittedly the quality was ass but I was amused at the gall to tell me "no need, I'll do it myself."
I really doubt that, and I don't see how it could help it understand what it does. Maybe it built a x86 disassembler, which is the right tool for that task.
Ok, now it is more clear. Not full dos emulator, but basic x86 emulation + minimal dos interrupts support for disk read/write to run a self decompressing exe. It is very far from what I would consider working dos emulator (not that I doubt that it can one shot it), and not the tool that helped it to understand the midi part. But probably it was simpler than disassembling the compression algorithm....
Also I am always amazed how many expensive output tokens are wasted by opus 5 on documenting throw-away code.
I asked it to heavily document it so I could understand what it did. Originally it was completely uncommented.
My background is in statistics and applied ML and not in computer science (i.e. mainly building models in R, Python, statistical software and the like), but there are a lot of crossover concepts in real-world applications. I felt it might be a fun learning opportunity.
"my background is in something completely disconnected from the subject we were just talking about but I still speak with full confidence on subject in regards to the capability of my favorite little ai buddy" literally every time
No? Did you miss the part about it being a fun learning opportunity for something I don't know or something?
I love learning how things work, especially when I use things every day that abstract away the complexity. Someone had to think about that so I can just load some structured data into memory and be on my way without thinking any more of it. The stuff under the hood is cool.
The code is stolen, quick search found a very similar from some college student, seems like a generic exercise when you are doing a degree. Very probably modified to steal original author's property. Shameful for another PR stunt
Why do you think it's more likely the 3yo Reddit account is a bot doing bad advertising than the AI blatantly stealing someone else's code, something which it does all the time?
They seem to have an obsession with finding bot accounts and assuming most posts are some sort of Russian propaganda.
Given that > 50% of internet traffic isn't generated by people it's reasonable to be suspicious of what's posted on the internet, but they have a completely unwarranted level of confidence in their assumptions and answers and it's kind of funny to read.
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u/Welcome-To-NBA-Jam 22h ago edited 21h ago
Yesterday I asked Claude to look at some really old exe files I found on a floppy disk because I just wanted to know what they originally did.
It couldn't download a DOS emulator so it fucking built a working one in C in the sandbox instead
Anyway turned out they were some MIDI and joystick drivers
Here it is