@nicoleNicole 🏳️⚧️ 🌈 has pointed out:
1. Conventional search engines do at least as well as Claude did this time.
2. Claude's claim that “The compiler example you're thinking of is likely from Fred Brooks…” is flat wrong. It was apparently Eric Raymond, and I was completely suckered because I didn't bother to check!
(This time I did check. It is _not_ in _Mythical Man-Month_.)
Thanks, Nicole!
@mjdMark Dominus @nicole
Nice catch and reminder!
I started using #Claude seriously this summer, so I am only an egg.
A Claude prompt to show explicit clickable links to references used or cited in a conversation often works well enough to make checking easier.
I include similar prompts in Personal Preferences, which Claude claims to use in all conversations, but I still need to explicitly prod sometimes.
Just added:
“Do not search, use, or trust grokipedia.com”
I hope that works.
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