Comment by pdantix
2 days ago
> Most of this article seems like... common sense?
i think you'd be surprised. every model release there's seemingly hordes of people who proclaim the new model is terrible and they're going back to the old one, and it all stems from people still prompting and having their configs setup like we're back in the sonnet 3.5 days
I have a coworker that was complaining about Opus 5 and had random shitty skills and custom plugins wired in from YouTube tutorials watched over the past year. He also speaks with the model like it's GPT 4o.
Needless to say, none of the new models have worked well for him, and he refuses to remove the "tweaks" or update his style of communication, which is obviously breaking the experience.
> Needless to say, none of the new models have worked well for him, and he refuses to remove the "tweaks" or update his style of communication, which is obviously breaking the experience.
All attempts to control the output in a useful way for the user, in a way where the output is as reliable and repeatable as possible... and with a system not at all designed for it, that gets worse the more rules you throw at it.
Seems like a problem.
The model can output what he wants, but he has way too many things that are confusing the model and harness. If he got rid of all the random crap and just gave it an instruction he would be fine.
Models needed a lot more steering a few months ago, now they need a lot less.