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I hate NOTHING quite the way how Claude jovially and endlessly raves about the 9/10 tasks it "succeeded" at after making them up, while conveniently forgetting to mention it completely and utterly failed at the main task I asked it to do.


That reminds me of the West Wing scene s2e12 "The Drop In" between Leo McGarry (White House Chief of Staff) and President Bartlet discussing a missile defense test:

LEO [hands him some papers] I really think you should know...

BARTLET Yes?

LEO That nine out of ten criterion that the DOD lays down for success in these tests were met.

BARTLET The tenth being?

LEO They missed the target.

BARTLET [with sarcasm] Damn!

LEO Sir!

BARTLET So close.

LEO Mr. President.

BARTLET That tenth one! See, if there were just nine...


An old adage comes to my mind: If you want something to be done the way you liked, do it yourself.


But it's a tool? Would you suggest driving a nail in by hand if someone complained about a faulty hammer?


AI is not an hammer. It's a thing you stick to a wall and push a button, and it drives tons of nails to the wall the way you wanted.

A better analogy would be a robot vacuum which does a lousy job.

In either case, I'd recommend using a more manual method, a manual or air-hammer or a hand driven wet/dry vacuum.




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