alt Hacker NewsThe TL;DR of the fragment at around 6:57 in the video, for those who don't want to watch, is that Boris recommends to delete all the customizations, CLAUDE.md, skills, and other stuff you had for older models, and try using the new models without all that, because the new models can surprise you.
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> because the new models can surprise you.
Yes, they keep surprising me that they still keep doing all of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48962703 with no improvement despite all the marketing assurances that "hey you don't need to read code anymore"
Even for older models I was (and am) of the opinion that a lot of the context-overstuffing cruft people have been wrapping around their LLM usage is more of an RNG-impacting (but not always for the better) lucky charm rather than it being universally helpful.
And a lot of people latched on to it as a form of self-soothing.
"I may not write much code anymore, but I can still be an expert prompt engineer!"
CHANGELOG: surprise me
Salesman "recommends" you to continue wasting more tokens and on top of that, he "recommends" you to use only recursive loops with the latest and greatest models.
Finally he also "recommends" that you do not look at the code, or even understand it.
His "recommendations" are designed to get you to spend even more tokens and get you hooked on the Opus / Fable slot machine in order to extract as much money as possible from your wallets.
News at 10.
All of these harnesses should support pinning config files and tools to specific models or families of models.
It's really tiring to have to tweak everything with each model release and then watch those changes mess up cheaper models in the process.