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Re:OpenAI O3-Mini by delichon on Friday January 31, 2025 @08:27PM (#42894688)
Claude makes a lot of crappy change suggestions, but when you ask "is that a good suggestion?" it's pretty good at judging when it isn't. So that's become standard operating procedure for me.

It's difficult to avoid Claude's strong bias for being agreeable. It needs more HAL 9000.

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Re:OpenAI O3-Mini by 4b11b4 on Friday January 31, 2025 @09:21PM (#42895032)
I'm always asking Claude to propose a variety of suggestions for the problem at hand and their trade-offs, then evaluating them for the top three proposals and why. Then I'll pick one of them and further vet the idea
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Re:OpenAI O3-Mini by esperent on Friday January 31, 2025 @10:16PM (#42895309)
> when you ask "is that a good suggestion?" it's pretty good at judging when it isn't

Basically a poor man's COT.

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Re:OpenAI O3-Mini by kace91 on Saturday February 01, 2025 @08:07AM (#42898006)
>It's difficult to avoid Claude's strong bias for being agreeable. It needs more HAL 9000.

Absolutely, I find this a challenge as well. Every thought that crosses my mind is a great idea according to it. That's the opposite attitude to what I want from an engineer's copilot! Particularly from one who also advices junior devs.

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