Yes it's very clear chatGPT's free models are concerned with general public / household problems / personal problems. It's not really suitable for business tasks.
Most people thought Fable had more 'taste' than Opus, there was certainly a better quality of writing that felt more 'smart human' and not 'stochastic parrot stringing sentences together'.
Usually the smell is when it sounds profound or insightful but then you realize it's word salad and not really saying anything. LLMs also try to make the most mundane thing sound revolutionary or write about it in an alarmist way like 'increasing x by 1% is a ground breaking innovation' or something.
There's no concept of what truly is important with the writing itself since there's no actual thinking going on. The opinion of the supposed writer, which colors how they structure the writing and the language they use, is often all over the place since an LLM has no real opinions.
It's not suitable for someone without prior in-office work experience IMO.
There are mentoring and office based behaviors and norms that people learn from each other through osmosis. I think it's a career mistake to never work with other people building something every day in the same room together.
I wouldn't hire a fresh grad who never worked in an office before.
I've been fully remote for longer than I was an in-office worker but those formative years being in-person were very important from a skills and social / emotional IQ perspective.
show me a prompt that is meaningfully expertly crafted beyond just providing Do's, Do not's, task context, and a goal.
> Correctly prompt, to steer it, to verify it, and to improve the harness.
I doubt this a lot. The average AI user is running claude code as the harness, or Codex etc. prompting has no secret incantations, and steer and verify is just knowing what the answer should roughly look like, which is a domain skill, not an AI skill.
Does anyone have good examples of well designed web applications - not landing pages or peoples tech blogs, which are often listed here on HN. But like actual applications that do a complex task with the user using it as a tool.
Claude skills made by other people are typically useless. The exceptions I have found are https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin which was like an early brainstorm -> plan -> write -> embed knowledge and best practices. Which is a common workflow now.