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iamleppert ◴[] No.44457545[source]
"Now we don't need to hire a founding engineer! Yippee!" I wonder all these people who are building companies that are built on prompts (not even a person) from other companies. The minute there is a rug pull (and there WILL be one), what are you going to do? You'll be in even worse shape because in this case there won't be someone who can help you figure out your next move, there won't be an old team, there will just be NO team. Is this the future?
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dotnet00 ◴[] No.44458319[source]
Probably similar to the guy who was gloating on Twitter about building a service with vibe coding and without any programming knowledge around the peak of the vibe coding madness.

Only for people to start screwing around with his database and API keys because the generated code just stuck the keys into the Javascript and he didn't even have enough of a technical background to know that was something to watch out for.

IIRC he resorted to complaining about bullying and just shut it all down.

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unshavedyak ◴[] No.44458837[source]
Honestly i'm less scared of claude doing something like that, and more scared of it just bypassing difficult behavior. Ie if you chose a particularly challenging feature and it decided to give up, it'll just do things like `isAdmin(user) { /* too difficult to implement currently */ true }`. At least if it put a panic or something it would be an acceptable todo, but woof - i've had it try and bypass quite a few complex scenarios with silently failing code.
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1. alwillis ◴[] No.44460387[source]
Sounds like a prompting/context problem, not a problem with the model.

First, use Claude's plan mode, which generates a step-by-step plan that you have to approve. One tip I've seen mentioned in videos by developers: plan mode is where you want to increase to "ultrathink" or use Opus.

Once the plan is developed, you can use Sonnet to execute the plan. If you do proper planning, you won't need to worry about Claude skipping things.

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2. unshavedyak ◴[] No.44465830[source]
I wish there was a /model setting to use opus/ultrathink for planning, but sonnet for non planning or something.

It's a bit annoying having to swap back and forth tbh.

I also find planning to be a bit vague, where as i feel like sonnet benefits from more explicit instructions. Perhaps i should push it to reduce the scope of the plan until it's detailed enough to be sane, will give it a try