Post #4001453

2026-07-13 19:12 UTC

I’ve used various AIs to troubleshoot stuff (especially to learn Linux), and they’re usually very helpful, but every so often I do have to catch them being lazy or lying like above.

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@homes@piefed.world 2026-07-13 19:20

yeah, that’s kinda I’ve been using Claude for. I recently decided to bite the bullet and migrate my 2012 iMac plex server to Fedora 44, which I knew would be a pretty painful transition due to some hardware issues with the machine (primarily the Burt-out primary display) and some other apple weirdness. and I was right. in order to save myself about a week of googling the answers to my problems, it only took me about 8 hours to get Fedora up and running. now, this was about 4 weeks ago, which was just before claud’s last update, and I’d say that the main difference I notice is that, during long interaction sessions, the previous model would start to lose its memory and get “confused”, offering progressively less-useful answers/solutions until I just had to start a new session. that problem seems to be resolved in the new model. I’ve been using it over the past few weeks to iron out a few remaining bugs here and there, and I’ve noticed a big improvement int he quality of the interaction int he latest model update. but I don’t really use it for more than that, just to save time in hours and hours of digging up solutions to problems. plus, Clause is very good at explaining exactly what the problem was, why this-or-that happened, why and how this-or-that works, etc. I’ve actually learned a lot about Fedora and linux from my interactions. and I considered myself moderately knowledgable before.

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