Comment by MaybiusStrip
9 days ago
This is a great point, because when you ask it (Claude) if it has any questions, it often turns out it has lots of good ones! But it doesn't ask them unless you ask.
9 days ago
This is a great point, because when you ask it (Claude) if it has any questions, it often turns out it has lots of good ones! But it doesn't ask them unless you ask.
That's because it doesn't really have any questions until you ask it whether it does.
This is the most important comment in this entire thread IMO, and it’s a bit buried.
This is the fundamental limitation with generative AI. It only generates, it does not ponder.
You can define "ponder" in multiple ways, but really this is why thinking models exist - they turn over the prompt multiple times and iterate on responses to get to a better end result.
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what is the difference between "ponder" and "generate"? the number of iterations?
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you can get it to change by putting instructions to ask questions in the system prompt but I found it annoying at a while