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I feel the opposite 🤔
I read all the slop I order myself[1] and I spend hours upon hours every day reading slop. It's probably my #2 activity now, ugh. But whenever someone else's slop shows up on my screen, I cry a tear, and stop reading and most often don't even scan it. I could probably code me a bot to reformat it into something I can embed (which makes it totally unreadable) and prevent loss of information[2] that way.
I do specify output templates though, and when I first tried Opus 4.8 it ignored my instructions and I didn't rest until I got it to not ignore me, also I've largely moved away from Claude because of the endless cockups and regressions ↩
Speaking of information, back in the early 2000s, I designed and lead a team building a system for data quality management at row granularity for a multi-tenant data warehouse. I'm starting to think that I need to build a set of metrics on my big vector databases that culminate into a float that in turn I can multiply
scorewith, so that I get higher quality information out. I don't want to be gaslit by someone else's poor prompt infecting my knowledge base :-/ ↩
My aesthetic reaction is becoming problematic in the sense that I can hardly even use AI for personal use anymore. Like, if I ask it to diagnose a bug in my code, or provide feedback on a paper, if it talks the way these bots talk, I can't even stomach reading it. Opus 5 is the worst offender, IMO. I find Grok 4.5 and ChatGPT 5.6 to be a bit better on that front.