Yeah, I find the back and forth with Claude is often better than trying to front load everything in a massive and detailed prompt.

The counter-intuitive nature of LLMs is so simultaneously interesting and frustrating. Overloading a single prompt definitely can create challenge remarkably similar to human short-term memory and attentional drift.

LLMs gain so much knowledge and capability from absorbing the symbolic relationships embedded in human language but in doing so, inevitably absorb many of the human foibles, sensitivities and weaknesses reflected in our languages.

Proper hooks prevent this from happening

The problem is that we don’t know if a human fact-checked it before release or if we’re the first humans reading it closely.

We don't really know that about human written text either.

Yes we do because a human literally had to write it. That’s at least one human pass and fact-check.

This is very reminiscent of the "everyone's a Russian bot" era of social media, where everyone would just lob that accusation at people without any real proof.

There is no way to prove, but what is definitely true is that many people are attempting to use LLMs on forums and otherwise.

So if you think none of these comments are written by LLMs, you're probably mistaken too.

In the end we accept that we can't tell anymore and move on (barring some biometric protocol that can't be gamed via automation)

I dunno man, the slot machine pays out like 99% of the time for me.

Yawn. This is just bootstrap all over again. So what if people who don't have design skills can now create pleasant looking websites?

The thing about humor is that you don't have to tell people when you don't get a joke, you can just quietly continue to live your life while you wait for your next chance to be temporarily happy.

I get the joke, and I do appreciate it. I shouldn't have been so flippant in my comment, I was more just pushing back on people who disparage others for using ai to create websites.

> That was never going to happen overnight, if at all.

Very easy to say that in hindsight.

It was trivially predictable the entire time, just like it's trivial predictable that advances in robotics can only replace human labor at a rate that takes the necessary capital expenditure and associated manufacturing capacity into account. On top of the basic reality of logistics and infrastructure, the sears catalog provided a practical example that long predated the dotcom era.

It's possible to be a great parent who does "parent much" while also having your own hobbies and life.

It's easily one of the most intuitive and straightforward kiosks out there today and you don't have to wait for one of the cashiers to notice you nor worry about them punching in your order incorrectly.

Glad someone else feels the same way! Knowing that I enter my order in correctly is the biggest win there for me as a picky eater. The cashier is just entering it into a computer anyways, so it makes sense for me to enter it in myself. I honestly wonder why more restaurants don’t do this. It’s not that hard to wrap a halfway decent UI around the system you already have.

Restaurants, pubs etc. serve multiple purposes.

If it's purely about the food, receiving it, consuming it, then sure, get the human out of the loop, interact with a machine. Ideally even the preparation is done by a machine. No human error or hair involved. Why even go there, let it be delivered to your home.

But these places are also about the experience of social connection. The bar keeper, the waiter, the chef. They are all involved in this experience and the actual food is "just" one component, one detail, albeit an important one. My favorite restaurants would be nothing without the people there.

It's similar with music. It's not just about the produced sound waves. The musician forms a social bond with the audience. Even when listening to a recording, my mind is re-living or at least imagining a live sitting, that connection with the musician. No machine generated music will ever be able to replace that.

I am more concerned with getting the right order and not with entering the right one. McDonalds will still get it wrong when you have a complex "change" of defaults even if it's entered correctly.

Other places optimize for this better by not having too many hand-overs between order and preparation.