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I’ve never shared Claude text output with another human without explicitly flagging it as such. I believe my ability to communicate effectively in my own words is a large part of the value I offer and Claude’s writing (at least in relation to code) is so convoluted and malformed that I wouldn’t dream of attempting to pass it off as my own.
It has a utility in the same way that raw ingredients have a utility in a kitchen. The chef doesn’t just drop a messy pile of uncooked meat and vegetables onto your plate and tell you to figure it out. That’s exactly what people are doing when they vomit out a bunch of impenetrable slop and expect the reader to do the hard work of comprehending it on their behalf.
You can’t expect others to care about what you’re saying if you’ve not spent a moment considering how best to say it. The reader’s time is no less valuable than your own. If you think composing a readme for your project is worth zero minutes of your time, that’s the appropriate amount of time for readers to allocate to it.
For whatever it’s worth, I also cancelled my Claude subscription recently and shifted back to OpenAI solely because I find its outputs far more readable. I’ll even accept a slight hit on model performance as a trade-off. If I’m unwilling to read Claude-speak when I’m being paid an hourly rate, you can be sure I’m not reading it for free.
This may well be very useful, but Claude has ruined me and I have a visceral reaction to ‘gates’ in the opening sentence and couldn’t get any further. If a tool is worth building and sharing, surely it’s also worth writing a brief summary of what it’s supposed to achieve in your own words?
I can’t recommend this documentary enough. The algorithm dropped it onto my YouTube homepage one day and I wasn’t expecting to watch more than a few minutes but I was drawn in immediately.
I don’t consider myself a birder but I’ve got into nature photography in recent years and it’s such a joy to get out for sunrise or sunset and to come home with a special shot.
I’ll even sign your guestbook.
Oh this takes me back, what a cool project. Can someone reinvent the internet from that era next please?
So far Ubuntu LTS isn’t picking up the new packages for me via apt update, and Laravel Forge appears completely unresponsive as a result of being flooded by people trying to update their servers.
That looks like pretty typical scanner traffic, especially the WP routes. I wouldn’t assume it’s necessarily specific to this exploit.
I’m surprised this hasn’t had more attention, it seems like it should be a really solid half way house between the Jev-alikes and full-fat LLM calls. Hopefully ‘soon’ means ‘days’ for the open weights release.