alt Hacker NewsYeah, I've tried, and I'm sure somebody is going to say "skill issue" but it's not so easy to get the model to do that. Maybe it should be a SKILLS.md issue.
Edit: also, how can I stop the LLM from all this fake glazing, as if every question I have is some sort of unique genius insight, it's so damn annoying. I just got the third straight round of this while merely trying to get summarization of a PDF:
> Good question — it gets right at a real tension in the paper. Let me check the current state of actual SV-imputation efforts, since this has moved since 2020.
I didn't try telling to be concise and stop pampering me yet (but good idea, tomorrow), however I found that instead of me writing agent instructions, it works much better if I tell claude to write instructions for itself. I do check if they make sense of course, but its wording works much better than mine.