I don't know, my vibe coder friends always talk about wanting a visual programming language so they can understand the systems they make.
So I feel like your last sentence doesn't really track - yes they are like you
, just telling specifications to the machine, but they can struggle for hours trying to get those specific instructions right because they can't understand what their systems are doing.
I think most of us know why they're doing it.
We are just very pleased with it regardless.
1. I get great products for nearly free
2. Anthropic/openai/etc will hopefully be destroyed since they stole everyone's work and are trying to capitalize on pure theft.
Win-win. The why of it is not really that relevant.
I have some friends like this, always churning out low effort slop and trying to market it, for it to always fail and them getting depressed and trying again a month later.
I don't get it. It's like they're always excited that they found the magic infinite money glitch in the system.
Flash is amazing if you know the domain really well.
E.g. occasionally it makes the dumbest mistakes you've ever seen and can't correct them. However it's fairly rare, and if you know the domain really well, occasionally popping in the code and pushing it towards the correct solution takes like 20seconds or whatever.
So the speed you can move with flash + high domain knowledge beats opus by a mile in my experience.
I tried to switch back to 4.8 for a bit when it came out, feels so bad waiting 20mins for a mediocre solution when I could have had everything complete - with multiple iteration cycles - in flash in like 3-5mins.
I exclusively use deepseek v4 flash now, completely stopped using slow models like Claude.
Basically I never have to wait - yes I have to tell it little corrections occasionally (but I know the domain really well so that's not an issue), but it's so much faster than anything else it's kinda crazy. I love the super fast speeds with high involvement development cycle.
I actually enjoy using agentic development flows for the first time now - whereas with Claude I absolutely hated it. That 5 to 20 min wait after every prompt absolutely killed my desire to even want to work at all.
"It's built so that if something looks wrong, you can change it yourself without spending hours reading tutorials and watching coding videos"
Does anyone do this?
Every none coder I know just has llms build everything for them - can't imagine why they'd be looking up coding tutorials for a homepage.
Well, this tone you've taken - If you reread your previous message - you state I am showing psychopathic behavior and similar shame-based tactics. And that I would be a better person if I didn't do psychopathic things.
I'd say it's fairly normal and human of me to have some kind of reaction to that, no?
You must understand that speaking to other people like that will result in them reacting and being less conducive to productive conversation.
We will probably never see eye to eye on this.
You: negative tokens for higher accuracy on inanimate objects is psychopathic behavior. I want you to stop and I see you as a psychopath - although it is resulting in nothing bad to any living being.
Me: Using negative tokens on an inanimate object returns significant improval on accuracy. It does zero harm to any living being. This is a completely neutral action.
Are you upset (or concerned) about people watching movies with violence in them, or playing games where you can and do kill things?
I'd say it's fairly likely that you aren't a better person than me by being so fearful and shame-based.
But I'm not here to pontificate about who's a better person and don't really care.
You're mindset sounds kind of painful to me to be honest. Obviously we are just very different types of people.
I've had family see my chats plenty of times and we laugh about this stuff - it couldn't mean less to any of us.
I always turn off data tracking and training and mostly use ZDR services, so that's not an issue.
And for the other parts. I just don't agree - maybe sure, it probably wouldn't be healthy to constantly be negative at a machine (or even a wall) for hours a day.
But, let's say I work 8 hours, I spend 2 hours with an llm, and in those two hours I spend 10 minutes with some very negative prompts text for greater accuracy.
And I spend 3 hours with family/friends, which is of course nearly exclusively positive interactions.
Do you genuinely think those 10 minutes of negative prompts are actually meaningfully turning one into a mean/negative person towards other people?
Maybe try making a simple randomize script to swap the three latest models. And see if you can tell which ones are meaningfully different without knowing which ones are flipped on or off?
That doesn't make any sense.
If a thing has no feelings, and an output makes it more accurate, I cannot for the life of me understand why that would make a person an asshole.
So boxing is violent. And I have chosen to box in my past. Does that mean I'm a violent person now?
Even though I go out of my way to deescalate real fights?
I play games as the villain and and mass murder people in the game.
Does that mean I'm a violent extremist?
Oh, you think llms are a sentient' being with feelings. I get your perspective now.
So yeah, I whole heartedly with 100% of my being think llms are just an input/output/processing computer, I don't think they are aware, feeling, sentient beings.
So yeah, putting negative sentences in a processing machine that forces it to return higher accuracy results is something I don't have any feelings about.
I'd never yell at a cat or a dog. I'd never be mean to another person. As those aren't just hardware/software. I'd be fine smashing a rock violently. Or entering a negative text in a language model.
Putting negative tokens in a machine is no different than playing a violent video game to me.
It's not about, oh I'm a good person - so I can do bad things. It's just a neutral thing.
Well I always just start with practical stuff, unless it appears it's going off rails ona specific kind of way repeatedly. Then I try extreme negative prompts to see if it fixes the issue - which it often does.
I wouldn't say I'm roleplaying an asshole. I'm just using an llm in the best way to get the best accuracy.
It's not like a personal, secret fetish. It's just a system I use as needed.
I don't get why you are so uncomfortable with this? It's just tokens in and out of a language model. I feel absolutely nothing when I'm typing "assholish" words to get the output I need.