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johnisgood 2 hours ago

> Why is half the site blue now? I asked you to change one button.

> Half the site is blue. I asked for ONE button.

Those are my only options when the site is clearly not blue, two buttons are.

There is a reason for why I am much more specific than this.

plorkyeran 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, if this is how people interact with claude I’m not surprised they’re having a bad time in ways that I don’t. Asking it why it did something or getting combative is a waste of time.

jaggederest an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Clear context, revert the commit, change the prompt or documentation, try again.

selestify an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

How does one learn to interact with Claude more effectively?

tsukikage 10 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Realise that you are talking to some mathematics in a box. You can't get a rise out of it. It cannot feel guilt or remorse. Whatever emotional payoff one might want from "I asked for ONE button" cannot be had here. Meanwhile, not only are you being charged by the word, but every word you send that is not directly on the path to getting what you want done is just noise in the maths getting in your way.

So leave emotion at the door and make your words count. Voice your frustrations at the stress doll next to your monitor, sure, but spending tokens on them us just wasting time and money. Explicitly typing out your exasperation will not get you closer to whatever it is you are trying to accomplish. What can you type that will?

Laser focus: clearly, concisely explain what is wrong right now, and how you want it solved. Then do that again until all the moles have been whacked. If the AI is stuck in a sycophancy loop, start a new clean session. Do this frequently anyway: every turn in the same session charges for all preceding conversation again /and/ degrades the LLM's performance.

zeeveener 10 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

IndyDevDan on Youtube had a really good series for how to prompt models. It's an older series, but still quite relevant in my experience.

blake__dev an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah that's when the site lost me too. I feel like people just tell AI "make the thing" and then get mad when it doesn't match up to their vision that they didn't specify at all.

stodor89 9 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Everyone is specific until eventually they get frustrated/annoyed/tired enough.

iLoveOncall 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The whole website is two buttons, so that's pretty much accurate.