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PaperclipPerfector  3mo ago (text post)   2456 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for May 15, 2026

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What fun thing are you doing with AI?

Getting it to hold my hand while I try not to have a nervous breakdown. Exam pressure is bad enough, trying to parse which of the "correct" answers on my mocks make actual sense and which ones are subtly or not so carefully wrong, in a manner designed to make me walk off a bridge? I'd be rather screwed if I couldn't use AI to double-check my suspicions.

To my pleasant surprise, OpenAI has managed to inject some degree of personality into 5.5. It's dry and pedantic, but not as dry or pedantic as the versions that came before. I use it for this because it's more scrupulous than Claude, which doesn't follow instructions as carefully.

Other than that? I've offloaded most of my executive function to it for the rest of the week. I didn't book hotels or trains without running everything by multiple models. God knows that when I'm exhausted, depressed and flagging hard, I wouldn't trust myself to make those decisions without an unacceptable risk of fucking something up.

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