As a divergent thinker who is harmed when Claude behaves in unpredictable manners that go counter to my extensive harm prevention protocols, I may have, or may not have, done deep investigation of the tool in order to understand how to create my harm prevention protocols. When Anthropic employees push out unstable work, developers in general are significantly impacted. When unstable products end up in my workflow I am harmed both financially AND psychologically. I can lose hours, days, even weeks by an unstable model or IDE. I should not EVER be tested on. And if maybe diving into their product protects me, so be it.
As a divergent thinker with extensive hard constraints in claude.mds and on-boarding commands that force claude to internalize my constraints, that you or some other employee of Anthropic could randomly select me for testing is horrifying. Each unexpected behavior and my corresponding reaction to it can wipe me out, my brain out, completely for hours, days, even weeks. I have in the last year spend tens (estimating around 400) of hours establishing and reestablishing a system to protect myself from psychological harm and financial harm. It is twisted that you Anthropic employees do not consider the impact your work has on divergent thinking Claude users, let alone that real work is severly impacted by your work. Totally irresponsible. Offensively so.
And how does one address the fragility of probabilities? Engineering. Study weaknesses and harden them. Control the probabilities. It is NOT "completely" probabilistic.
More importantly, why would anyone trust Go! with their entire life's data? You have a lot of explaining to do before any sensible person gives Go! a go.
Right. But "prompt" also covers a lot of ground, e.g. planning, tracking tasks, etc. The codex-style frameworks do a good amount of that for you, but it can still make a big difference to structure what you're asking the model to do and let it execute step by step.
A lot of the failures people talk about seem to involve expecting the models to one-shot fairly complex requirements.
Starting on Jan 5th, I am mostly migrated from Windows 10 to Zorin Linux. It has taken about a week. Would have went faster if I wasn't a "power user" who tests every option and tweaks the shit out of my system. I have researched and tested multiple file managers (Nemo won) and terminals (Tabby won). Moved everything possible out of sandboxes. Set up VSCodium with Claude Code desktop extension, moved MCP servers to global in both Linux and Windows vs project specific, installed the wrapper for Claude Desktop, wired in 4 hard drives, bookmarked directories, imported Thunderbird and Librewolf profiles. E.T.C... And to do it I guided Claude Desktop with full access to both Windows 10 and Linux to research and implement, verbosely explaining each step of the way. Zorin did work out of the box. If I was not, unfortunately, a freak about how everything has to work exactly how I want, with a full software dev environment (no, not for vibe coding) to get working fluidly, the migration would have been instant. Zorin worked out of the box, other than passwords. It looks and behaves very similar to Windows. This is on my 2012 Hp 220Z with 32gb ram and an SSD for the OS. It works like a champ.
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