> But that afternoon, fueled by curiosity and frustration, I felt a switch flip in my brain, and I dived head-first into a rabbit hole with no turning back.

https://xkcd.com/356/

It happens to all of us. However, I think it’s much easier nowadays with LLMs for something productive like this to come out of it. I can notice something wrong and triage or even fix it before the point where I’d normally start to feel the subconscious pull of opportunity cost telling me to stop.

We’ve taken it *outside* the environment

Are we even at the stage where we can encode any best practices into such a certification…?

What?

For me, I had a similar reaction to the original commenter.

I thought about it more and realized it’s the “via Polymarket” tag on it. It reads like an advertisement. I don’t need to know the exact market the figure is from. Someone could even combine multiple ones and I still wouldn’t want to know.

Kinda ironic this description is so verbose.

> Use when user says "caveman mode", "talk like caveman", "use caveman", "less tokens", "be brief", or invokes /caveman

For the first part of this: couldn’t this just be a UserSubmitPrompt hook with regex against these?

See additionalContext in the json output of a script: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks#structured-json-output

For the second, /caveman will always invoke the skill /caveman: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills

The whole “Code Output” section is horrifying especially with how I have seen Claude operate in a large monorepo.

This mode of operation results in hacks on top of shaky hacks on top of even flimsier, throw away, absolutely sloppy hacks.

An example - using dict like structs instead of classes. Claude really likes to load all of the data that it can aggressively even if it’s not needed. This further exhibits itself as never wanting to add something directly to a class and instead wanting to add around it.

The best way to approach these (imo) is to pick out some things you think will be helpful. It's a giant vibe fest on this front since there is little in the way of comprehensive evals and immense variation in what people do. Having iterated a bunch on the tone / output formatting, it doesn't seem to impact capabilities (based on my vibe-vals)

> And Apple Business can help millions of companies grow their reach and connect with local customers across Apple Maps, Mail, Wallet, Siri, and more, including a new option coming this summer that will enable businesses in the U.S. and Canada to place local ads in Maps during key search and discovery moments. Apple Business will be available starting Tuesday, April 14, in more than 200 countries and regions

Burying the lede about ADs coming to everything in this announcement. Seems like the contract most people implicitly signed when choosing Apple just broke.

> Per turn

Isn’t this somewhat misleading? Any system context is going to be added “per turn” because it’s included in the first turn.

Is any context removed on a turn by turn basis (aside from thinking?)

He’s back making that exact product now

I personally think it's gross the idea of licking something then setting it aside to lick it again later without washing it, but maybe you do wash it. Also maybe way too salty.

FWIW, both sugar and salt are used as preservatives to inhibit microbial growth.

So, it might actually be pretty clean, from that perspective.