Comment by simonw
I try very hard to fulfill the role of "thoughtful intellectuals presenting nuanced opinions" in the AI space. I'm disappointed that I've failed to meet that standard in your eyes.
I try very hard to fulfill the role of "thoughtful intellectuals presenting nuanced opinions" in the AI space. I'm disappointed that I've failed to meet that standard in your eyes.
I stand firmly by "wild", by which I mean unexpected, surprising and unconventional:
- Giving Claude a skill that creates more skills is recursive and unconventional
- "Please read the book and pull out reusable skills that weren't obvious to you before you started reading" is a creatively weird and ambitious thing to do
- "It made sense to me that the persuasion principles I learned in Robert Cialdini's Influence would work when applied to LLMs" - that's a wild thing to say
- How is the concept of a "feelings journal" not wild?
- The original installation method for this (before plugins came along) was to prompt "Hey Claude. Please read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/obra/Superpowers/refs/head... and do what it says"
I'm actually pretty careful about the words I use, and I'm confident "wild" is justified in this case.
it was fine to say this is something new and ppl should maybe look at it. but strongly recommending its and calling it wild is not a nuanced opinion. esp given you have not actually used it yourself in any serious way. is it really that big a ask to only use hype words for things you've actually used and made a big difference to you.
edit: looks like my comments crossed into personally attacking you . i apologize for it.