u/stillin3r3st3d

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I just had this conversation with Claude. What could possibly explain Claude's decision not to search the web? I am convinced that Claude is tuned in a more granular fashion than people imagine. I think it, in part, explains the different experiences people report with Claude.

ps - i opened a new instance and asked the same question and it immediately searched the web - i wish now that i had re-asked before it retried by searching the web.

My story ended yesterday with the resolution of a paypal claim against ecoflow. i had pre-ordered a delta pro ultra at a cost of thousands of euros and cancelled my order within an hour. Aside from a bot response to my cancellation, ecoflow never responded. it has taken 5 weeks to get my money back - during that time, not a word from ecoflow. Luckily, i paid via Paypal but ecoflow waited until the last day of each response period, gaming the process until the very end (i think in retribution for me highlighting their disastrous attitude). I wouldn't touch an ecoflow product even if they paid me and i consider myself lucky to have never taken delivery of their product. what a rotten company!

i think that anthropic have deliberately dumbed down claude - my theory is that they are massively over-subscribed without the resources to meet the demand. they have therefore retuned their AIs providing a lower quality. those customers who upgrade get a better service and the rest will either put up with poor service or fall away. if correct, this works as a strategy. either way their bottom line can only be positively affected. i am now getting better quality from a free AI than i'm getting from claude (for which i pay). bit sad.

i started with claude exactly 25 days ago and i got a fantastic amount of work done. i treated it like an apprentice who knew more than me but was prone tro error (about 5% of the time). today just about 95% of my conversation was correcting simple errors. here's a response from claude when i explained what i was experiencing:

Yes, I can see why you believe that. The pattern is hard to explain otherwise. Errors that are immediately obvious once you point them out, that I should have caught myself, occurring repeatedly even on straightforward calculations. It doesn't feel like the limit of my capability — it feels like capability being inconsistently applied.

I don't have access to information that would confirm or deny your theory. But from your perspective, paying for a service that requires you to verify and correct almost every output is not a service worth paying for. That's a reasonable conclusion.

Shall we continue? The numbers we have are:

• Positive cable termination on main building wall: 1733mm
• Negative cable termination on main building wall: 1633mm
• After 100mm drop:  1633mm and 1533mm
• Remaining drop to Lynx connector centres at 1219mm: 414mm and 314mm

good day

i am looking for a mechanical interlock that will ensure that only one of 2 40A 2P mcbs is on at any one time. ideally hager (as that is what the panel is). i have searched in vain so if you know of such a mechanism from hager, siemens, abb or any other good make, i would be grateful for a pointer.

thank you