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by gjstein 1079 days ago
Excited for this, but I think with all this conversation about the role an AI assistant should play in work and development, this line feels incomplete to me:

> Think of Claude as a friendly, enthusiastic colleague or personal assistant who can be instructed in natural language to help you with many tasks.

It omits that the colleague may have outdated knowledge or not understand whatever problem you give it. The colleague's "enthusiasm" should be tempered with oversight so that the outputs they produce are not directly used without scrutiny. It seems that most people using these tools increasingly understand this, but to leave it off the website seems ... sloppy at this point.

Edit: upon logging in, I'm greeted by a warning "It may occasionally generate incorrect or misleading information, or produce offensive or biased content."

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It seems as if there are many possible things they could omit, given that this is a blog post of finite word count.