The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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I think the key to getting good results is figuring out how to get a verifiable success/failure signal back into the LLM's inputs. If you've got an on-premise application and as such have no access to logs and such from the customer, I expect the place you'll see the most value is a prompt which is approximately "given [vague bug report from the user], come up with a few informed hypotheses for what it could be by looking at the codebase, and then, for each hypothesis (and optionally "and also my pet hypothesis of XYZ" if you have a hypothesis) , iteratively create a script which would reproduce the bug on this local instance of the stack if the hypothesis were correct [details of local instance]".
As an added bonus, the code to repro a bug is hard to generate but easy to verify, and generally nothing is being built on top of it so if the LLM chooses bad or weird abstractions it doesn't really matter.
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