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LLMs .what do you smoke beforehand?

5•kderbyma•3h ago
I know this is going to sound negative, and probably a bit generalist but....seriously, what exactly is the LLM helping you with that is not just purely "time saving" - ie. Actual, novel work.

I personally feel like while I cannot prove it, nor want to frankly, that LLMs have been neutered intentionally since around October of last year. 4.5-4.6 Opus....

Every single company has degraded their models eirher intentionally or accidentally(probably worse) and they cannot admit it and will gaslight you if you even try to acknowledge it....but for my own experiments, LLMs are actually worse than no-LLM....

I dont see anyone building anything they couldnt have done before hand....and I am seeing stuff that didnt need to be made...much more frequently....to the degree that I cannot remember the last good idea I have seen even on here (whereas there were cool ideas every month posted here)...

I also cannot get even mediocre output anymore...Its literally just trash - Literally a prompt to dumpster pipeline....

Clause is the worst. Hands down. They have regressed on every single model since 4.5....to rhe degree that 4.5 when it was released was hands down better than anythingg on the market today...for a fraction of the price....and was like 10-100x faster...

So....what do I need to smoke, what drug makes me see the LLMs work? I need to get faded...because at this point....Its insulting to use them....

Claude will literally bend over backwards to do everything in its power to avoid doing what was asked....and will take 50minutes of thinking....for a single html website....that looks like fucking dogwater and which I could have coded up by hand using off the shelf styling in probably 90 minutes....

so...yeah...what drugs? How much? How often? Side effects?

Comments

dgellow•3h ago
That level of trolling is an art form. Just beautifully executed, kudos
paretolaw•3h ago
This started for me since opus 5...

To see that it works you first need to be some famous "programmer" who is on someone's payrole, basically doing their marketing.

kderbyma•1h ago
Ah yes, the wisdom of sponsorship
evs91•3h ago
you mean that time that the scrapers started becoming the Ouroboros? When you put in trash don't expect gold output
evs91•3h ago
and by this I mean: that time that the scrapers ingested too much trash / slop to be accounted for and thus became "mediocre" because all that LLMs do is make output that is the sum "average" of humanity's knowledge.
kderbyma•1h ago
Yes. The great heroic crusade that LLMs are fighting is to ensure we reach the absolute mean...
kderbyma•1h ago
But life is an ourobouros...entropy is supposed to be fun...chaotic....not mid. I feel like the ouroborous has indigestion...possibly needs a laxative (oh...no that would make it worse...hmmmm....I guess something to make you vomit instead)

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