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conceptiontoday at 12:38 PM3 repliesview on HN

Have you tried asking it for a lay explanation of what it did? That’s usually all it takes for me. Sends garbage -> request -> sends something readable


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StilesCrisistoday at 2:30 PM

When I ask it to make a CL description, it's worthless unless I tell it to dumb it down as much as possible, assume the reader has zero knowledge of the codebase. And then it makes a perfectly cromulent description that just needs a touch of trimming-down. If I don't do this, the description is just a wall of gibberish and paraphrasing of every little thing it encountered.

baschtoday at 1:15 PM

Brilliant way to get people to waste tokens.

Maybe just don’t generate garbage in the first place?

D13Fdtoday at 1:50 PM

Yeah but Sol shows it is possible to just send the readable explanation in the first instance. And I don't want to spend tokens and time on asking for a better version of each response.