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0 pointskxrm9d ago0 comments

Nah, I just /clear

I refuse to argue with these machines. After a /clear I prompt it more appropriately/differently and the issue is settled.

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code_biologist9d ago· 2 in thread

So you take action and put in more effort to cater to the LLM to get it to do what you want, but it's not arguing because there's no record of it in the chat? Presumably you put in what you would have written in the counter-argument into the new chat, just ahead of the LLM refusal? And this isn't arguing?

kxrmOP9d ago

> but it's not arguing because there's no record of it in the chat?

Yes? Arguing implies I have to convince someone to believe something. I don't think anyone would consider it winning an argument if you do so by causing amnesia.

My job is to get work done, not argue with an LLM, if it refuses twice, it is time for a /clear.

100% of the time, the issue is resolved after a /clear.

whstl9d ago

+1. It's the most effective way.

It often start going into circles when you have the chat open for medium-long, and starts getting even easily-verifiable tasks wrong, cutting corners, hallucinating APIs, things like that.

Cleaning the prompt and starting from scratch often does the trick.

Of course someone will arrive and say the problem is my CLAUDE.md or whatever it is.

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whstl9d ago

It's incredibly funny that a large chunk of the messages here are "you need to argue or you're doing it wrong" and another large chunk is "I stopped reading, OP is an idiot for arguing".

People are polarised about how you should talk to a machine !!!

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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4 comments · 2 top-level

code_biologist9d ago· 2 in thread

So you take action and put in more effort to cater to the LLM to get it to do what you want, but it's not arguing because there's no record of it in the chat? Presumably you put in what you would have written in the counter-argument into the new chat, just ahead of the LLM refusal? And this isn't arguing?

kxrmOP9d ago

> but it's not arguing because there's no record of it in the chat?

Yes? Arguing implies I have to convince someone to believe something. I don't think anyone would consider it winning an argument if you do so by causing amnesia.

My job is to get work done, not argue with an LLM, if it refuses twice, it is time for a /clear.

100% of the time, the issue is resolved after a /clear.

whstl9d ago

+1. It's the most effective way.

It often start going into circles when you have the chat open for medium-long, and starts getting even easily-verifiable tasks wrong, cutting corners, hallucinating APIs, things like that.

Cleaning the prompt and starting from scratch often does the trick.

Of course someone will arrive and say the problem is my CLAUDE.md or whatever it is.

1 more reply

whstl9d ago

It's incredibly funny that a large chunk of the messages here are "you need to argue or you're doing it wrong" and another large chunk is "I stopped reading, OP is an idiot for arguing".

People are polarised about how you should talk to a machine !!!

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse