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Re:Claude Opus 4.6 by gbalduzzi on Friday February 06, 2026 @01:35AM (#46909806)
Neat idea, but why should I use AI for a find and replace?

It feels like shooting a fly with a bazooka

Re:Claude Opus 4.6 by jack_pp on Friday February 06, 2026 @03:08AM (#46910307)
it's like hiring someone to come pick up your trash from your house and put it on the curb.

it's fine if you're disabled

Re:Claude Opus 4.6 by miohtama on Friday February 06, 2026 @01:51AM (#46909895)
Bazooka guarantees the hit
Re:Claude Opus 4.6 by xenodium on Friday February 06, 2026 @02:46AM (#46910187)
I like LLMs, but guarantees in LLMs are... you know... not guaranteed ;)
Re:Claude Opus 4.6 by throwaway290 on Friday February 06, 2026 @03:20AM (#46910384)
I think that was the point
Re:Claude Opus 4.6 by bilekas on Friday February 06, 2026 @03:15AM (#46910353)
You're missing the point, it's only a testing excersize for the new model.
Re:Claude Opus 4.6 by happyraul on Friday February 06, 2026 @03:38AM (#46910473)
No, the point is that you can set up the testing exercise without using an LLM to do a simple find and replace.
Re:Claude Opus 4.6 by bilekas on Friday February 06, 2026 @04:14AM (#46910686)
... I'm not sure if you're trolling or if you missed the point again. The point is to test the contextual ability and correctness of the LLMs ability's to perform actions that would be hopefully guaranteed to not be in the training data.

It has nothing to do about the performance of the string replacement.

Re:Claude Opus 4.6 by kakacik on Friday February 06, 2026 @05:51AM (#46911335)
Its a test. Like all tests, its more or less synthetic and focused on specific expected behavior. I am pretty far from llms now but this seems like a very good test to see how geniune this behavior actually is (or repeat it 10x with some scramble for going deeper).
Re:Claude Opus 4.6 by inexcf on Friday February 06, 2026 @09:51AM (#46913519)
This thread is about the find-and-replace, not the evaluation. Gambling on whether the first AI replaces the right spells just so the second one can try finding them is unnecessary when find-and-replace is faster, easier and works 100%.
Re:Claude Opus 4.6 by luckydata on Friday February 06, 2026 @03:12AM (#46910338)
do you know all the spells you're looking for from memory?
Re:Claude Opus 4.6 by wickedsight on Friday February 06, 2026 @03:57AM (#46910576)
You could just, you know, Google the list.
Re:Claude Opus 4.6 by Applejinx on Friday February 06, 2026 @05:41AM (#46911263)
and then the first thing you see will be at least one of ITS AI responses, whether you liked it or not
Re:Claude Opus 4.6 by imafish on Friday February 06, 2026 @04:55AM (#46910953)
If all you have is a hammer.. ;)