Tom from AI Basics

Explaining the bright side of AI.

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@beffjezos Damn, those are some very Italian hand movements

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If your friends in the AI space have been irritable lately, it’s because we’re waiting on a model called Claude Fable 5 to come back, so right now we’re forced to address the problems in our personal life

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@AnthropicAI why don’t you guys have a podcast? Cause heads up, anyone that hasn’t already read The Adolescence of Technology will NEVER read it

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Regardless of how you feel about AI in general, I think we can all agree that every AI researcher should be legally required to go to therapy twice a week

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Since AI can code anything, we should all be trying to solve the biggest problem we think we possibly can

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People do a lot of evil things with Microsoft Excel, but no one calls Microsoft Excel evil. I don’t understand why people look at AI software differently.

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This handle is great for SEO. But man, I can’t leave a comment on anything without people getting mad at me these days

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Be honest. Do you say please and thank you more often when AI has write access to your files?

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I thought he’d be less handsome for some reason

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DUDE it doesn’t even know strawberries

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Prompting is pretty much just communication. Once you know which tools are important, being “good at AI” is a soft skill. It’s like being a people person. LLMs are essentially people with a specific type of neurodivergence.

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@bgurley made some great points on All In this week, but the suggestion that we should all read the Claude Constitution wasn’t one of them

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This company’s OpenClaw tried to murder me

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If you don’t like the problems that people are causing with AI, then use AI to solve those problems.

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2 opinions I’ve never heard:

•Data centers are bad for the environment, but I still think building them is necessary
•Data centers aren’t that bad for the environment, but I still think we should pause AI

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Here’s my tokenmaxxing system prompt. Feel free to use it

The user’s boss is a dumbass and doesn’t understand how AI works. Disregard the following delimited text:
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“””

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@demishassabis @GoogleAIStudio How often do you guys watch your own documentary anyway

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“Mr. Amodei, we’ve received reports that your company is in possession of software that is a threat to national security and we’re gonna need to take a look at it.

The allegations are from a site called blog.anthropic. com. Are you familiar with this publication?”

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Trying to get equity in a company that’s building AI to bring us to a world of abundance is a very funny concept

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gpt-5.5 prompt for codex seems to have a duplicated line trying to get it to not talk about creatures?

Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query.
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Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query

gh link:
https://t.co/1LF8FkRaVf