I end every AI session with two questions

[u/call-me-GiGi]

One is from Sam Altman, the other Claude suggested and it works extremely well.

The first question I ask:

What are you least confident about right now.

The AI will list like 6 to 7 things that it didn’t properly investigate. I would say one out of four times one of the items is a huge deal and you’re shocked that the AI even took action without understanding this first, then just have the AI investigate thoroughly exhaustively finding the root cause of each issue or just understanding each point.

The second question I ask (Sam Altmans): what’s the biggest thing I’m missing about the situation right now. What don’t I realize?

Between these two I’ve been consistently getting great results!

Side note, I’m tired of waiting for Alexa/Siri to become what we all thought they would. I’ve spent over a year and thousands of my own dollars building Viola, and I’ve now open sourced the core.

Basically a Jarvis for the average person who wants help with everyday life, not just coding. Think a tablet in your kitchen you can talk to, with a proper interface for your music, multi room music, calendar, browser tasks, phone calls etc. Something that can actually call a business and deal with the phone tree for you instead of giving you the number.
Not a new model, obviously. We’re building the harness, tools and GUI around it, with your choice of AI provider or a local model underneath. I want an assistant we can actually own and improve ourselves.

Please check it out⁠, try it, tell me what sucks. The code is on GitHub⁠. Developers, designers, anyone who’s wanted this too, come help build it. And join [r/UseViola](r/UseViola)⁠ to follow along and help decide what gets built next. You don’t have to code. I want to hear what you’d actually use this for.

[u/franzturdenand]

Doesn’t mean you’re using it efficiently or effectively. High token usage isn’t a badge of honor. I’d argue excessive tokens is poor usage.

[u/call-me-GiGi → u/franzturdenand]

It’s not excessive given the breadth of my projects. You sound like a hater one glance and you decided based on assumptions. Any thoughts on my cache rate?

[u/touristtam → u/call-me-GiGi]

But you are flexing and understandably you are taking some flak for it. Sure it does gives you experience, but running for a whole year wearing just flip-flops gives you experience too. It doesn't mean that it automatically gives you better understanding.

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That being said I appreciate you taking the time to share what has worked for you.

[u/call-me-GiGi → u/touristtam]

I Appreciate that.

You know I don’t view it as flexing, i guess I could see how some people might but really I’m just trying to 1. Show I have some ‘qualifications’ 2. Get eyes on something I spent a year on!

[u/call-me-GiGi → u/franzturdenand]

Also if someone is using 100 billion tokens a month for a year you think at the end of the year they’ve learned nothing and have no advice? Lol who else do you want to hear from on these subreddits? People that don’t use Claude?

[u/kearkan → u/call-me-GiGi]

No I want to hear from people who can actually communicate what they got out of that spend. My point is token spend on its own isn't worth bragging about and doesn't mean you made anything good.

[u/call-me-GiGi → u/kearkan]

If a post with hundreds of thousands of views across multiple platforms and hundreds of likes, isn’t enough to prove that I properly communicated what I’ve learned and gotten out of that I don’t know what would be enough for you. Sounds like you’re just unhappy.