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Thanks, Claude, but Ruby is not Rails
Signs of Rails creep in the code I spent some of today debugging an error that suddenly started appearing in CI runs for unit tests: Having prior experiences with code that was written for a Ruby only project but happened to rely on a Rails dependency, I pretty quickly knew why it was breaking: NilClass#present?…
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Claude is great for writing Powershell I don’t want to think about how to write
Claude (and ChatGPT) are useful for writing scripts in vaguely familiar scripting languages that I would otherwise spend [much more time] trying to piece together the correct syntax to write. And I can often get a reasonable first pass from a prompt on my phone, depending on how complicated the needs are. And regardless of…
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My favorite thing for LLMs: analyzing text against a list of criteria
Prompt for Anthropic: “Annotate all the logical fallacies in https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/“ Logical Fallacies in “My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts” Ad Hominem Attacks Straw Man Fallacies False Dichotomy/Binary Thinking Appeal to Consequences Appeal to Authority/Bandwagon Hasty Generalization Tu Quoque (You Too/Hypocrisy) Red Herring Begging the Question/Circular Reasoning False Cause/Post Hoc Appeal to Emotion Equivocation Survivorship…