Comment by bensyverson
4 hours ago
This "slot machine" metaphor is played out. If you're just entering a coin's worth of information and nudging it over and over in the hopes of getting something good, that's a you problem, not a Claude problem.
If, on the other hand, you treat it like a hyper-competent collaborator, and follow good project management and development practices, you're golden.
> If, on the other hand, you treat it like a hyper-competent collaborator, and follow good project management and development practices, you're golden.
I am consistently using 100% of my weekly $200 max plan. I know how this thing works, I know how to get value out of it, and I wish what you said were true.
If you do all of these things? You are in a better spot. You are in a far better spot than if you hadn't! Setting up hooks to ensure notes get written? Massive win! Red-green TDD? Yes, please! But in terms of just ... well, being able to rely on the damn thing?
https://github.com/ctoth/claude-failures
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_hyper-competent collaborator who may completely make things up occasionally and will sometimes give different answers to the same question*_
So, indistinguishable from a human then
No. A competent human doesn't make things up, he admits ignorance. He also only very rarely changes answers he previously gave.
Life is full of variable reward schemes. Probably why we evolved to be so enamoured by them.
In a healthy environment. We are harmed more by being totally risk adverse. Than by accepting risk as part of life and work.