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this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Should have taken the effort to type 'shutdown -r now' yourself.
Prob even quicker than asking an llm.
Ιt could have been part of a larger thing where it made sense to want to keep evidence of the shutdown in the chat context.
It's not like they design or promote these things in any way that encourages user initiative, can't have full cognitive surrender if the user is running system commands on the side.
Good point, had not thought about that. And that makes, in a way stuff even worse, as when it goes wrong people go all 'skill issue' despite the systems being designed and marketed for full cognitive surrender.
I will assert again that ~nobody who claims that prompting is a skilled practice also offers a guide to how to develop that skillset. And it would be effectively the same claim as having cracked the use of English as a computer programming language, so it should be pretty easy to produce that guide, right? Anthropic should have this shit front and center! First clickable link on their front page!
Yeah, coding guides are everywhere (or used to be at least, more and more seem to be shutting down due to declining sales + increased costs due to scraping).
Never saw anybody offer a link to a guide like that.
Hell coding has Become a Programmer, Motherfucker which isn't just one guide, but an entire list of guides, and it even uses (old but checks out) meme to diversify itself from other people offering the same.
(I checked, the guy, despite still being on twitter, is still doing his thing trying to help people to learn how to code, his stance on AI wasn't totally clear after a short glance, he is however a gamer angry about bad UI implementations (I can totally relate)).