I haven't tried it myself, but, I would assume that this sort of instruction in CLAUDE.md would indeed make it a bit more careful, to the detriment of its development velocity, which for my use-case would be bad. I generally prefer for it to experiment in many directions rapidly, and only once we have an approach that solves the problem well, to do extensive testing.

Well, that is what's in the ellipsis in the parent's quote:

"Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times" G. Michael Hopf

I know thanks. i was mostly just replying to the last sentence of their comment like in a conversation

While we're doing historical quotes:

"People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks." -Mark Zuckerberg

That's an extremely high bar. But to the extent that critics and awards are the metric we have, he is an objectively good writer.

Oh course it's a high bar! Why should anyone care about this work outside of the time of their release? It's modern culture but it ain't gonna be passed down anytime soon.

If the bar is that people will continue reading their books in 200 years, than which fiction writers of the last few decades would go into your list of "good"?

I don't know because you're asking me something that is impossible for a human that only lives to ~80 years.

Try asking better questions if you want better responses.

Take your best guess, obviously. The question is fine.

You're already confidently predicting a negative future for Ender's Game, so you're clearly not adverse to predictions.

I don't know that you can establish objectively if someone is a good writer. He's an acclaimed, award-winning writer, sure.

I think you just need to define "Consciousness" and "Divine", and the answer will pop right out.

Seeing how annoying their website interfaces are, I'd actually be open to paying for API/CLI access to porn.

I like his reasoning about feedback, but found his rejection of this funny:

> I was afraid then that I had consigned myself to writing stories about children in jeopardy. But in fact I was writing character stories rather than idea stories. And THAT was how I built a career, not by self-imitation ...

From my perspective, having read about a dozen of his books and enjoyed his writing, I couldn't help but feel that the protagonists and the adversity facing them get really repetitive - almost all of them really are about unusually smart children in various forms of jeopardy, all achieving almost impossible to believe control over their situation. They're great power fantasies for a kid, but when trying to revisit his writing when I was older, I found myself really disappointed with the lack of range.

Interesting - do you have a link about the financial accounting around this?

If you google it, revenue is at £8 billion (Office for Budget Responsibility) and in decline, and NHS spending is at £2.6 billion in England, so the bulk of it (NHS England).

I do not have the specific info/ref to hand, but at one point some years ago, smoking brought in something of the order of nine times as much into the NHS as it spent on smoking related illnesses. I was very surprised by this.

Even so, the NHS's goals are rightly such that greatly reducing the harm done by smoking is preferred over keeping this revenue. Unlike a tobacco company that would not factor harms external to the organisation into the profit and loss calculation.

> Nothing can stop us now that we’re in charge of a website.

I love that. Like a familiar smell, it triggered in me a long lost memory of the old hacker ethos.

"No Such Agency"