Yeah, I can't see what the questions were, but if they were about suicidal thoughts and plans, having to read, consider and respond to those questions six times a day would certainly reinforce any tendency to think about it, just through sheer exposure.
My grandmother told a story about meeting an elderly female relative in Kingston, Tasmania, soon after my grandparents had got their first car. After visiting, they said they were now going back to the city (Hobart), and the old lady said, "Oh, how lovely, I've never been!" My grandmother reported, "And I should have told her 'get in the car then!', because she died not too long after."
I've renewed my visa in Japan a bunch of times, including changing work category or visa status, and never had to leave the country for it. It's not standard for working or student visas, though you would have to leave if you were switching from a tourist visa to a different category.
How overworked would a doctor need to be to hallucinate you told them about microdosing psillocybin when you never said anything of the sort? (And how easy is it to then convince the system you're not a recreational drug user when it's in your medical records you admitted to drug use? Does this change if you're from a background more likely to be stereotyped as drug users?)
The humans are probably making mistakes like writing 100mg of something when they meant 10mg, which can also have dangerous consequences, but to an extent it's known this happens and there are processes to catch it. The type of mistakes and how much trouble and distress they cause matters as much as the number.
To this day we have no idea why or how, but years ago someone at a chain of walk-in clinics once put a note in my wife's file indicating that she was a habitual cocaine user. She had no idea until she went in one time and they were like "So, are you still using cocaine?"
(I do think this is extraordinarily rare compared to how often AI hallucinations happen, but it's such a bizarre story that I have to mention it.)
> How overworked would a doctor need to be to hallucinate you told them about microdosing psillocybin when you never said anything of the sort
From personal experience I can tell you that it does indeed happen. Not specifically micro-dosing psilocybin of course, but of a similar nature, and completely made up. Not sure how it happens.
Your last line is the right attitude to take, but do you think the guy blogging his learnings of social skills on a blog called "wired differently" is a neurotypical writing for neurotypicals?
I find it to be rather common that concrete advice on social skills or other life skills called "neurotypical" if it doesn't explicitly hedge for reasons that people might not be able to apply it, when the authors are frequently writing about things they personally struggled with.
I've been here for 15+ years and I've never seen a sushi place without salmon. But I've never been to a "fancy" sushi place, just supermarkets, kaiten chains and neighborhood restaurants that are $20-40 a head.
Salmon is not a "traditional" sushi ingredient because, until the introduction of flash-freezing, it couldn't be eaten raw due to the risk of parasites. That changed in the 80s or so, I think.
I had an encounter with the opposite problem the other day, PM asked me if the library I was using for randomization was "secure" and I said, "Yes, I used the standard Java library for cryptographically secure random numbers that is already used in several other locations in this project," and he said, "But did you ask Claude if it's secure? It has to be secure!"
Have your agent write a report on why it is secure, have it compare with other methodologies, pros and cons tables, and anything else you can pad out a few dozen pages, then ask the PM to review it and choose which method to follow before you proceed.
Repeat for all instances of micromanagement until they learn to trust your judgement and expertise.
“I ask Claude only questions to which I don’t know answers to - which there are plenty of. That saves the company money by avoiding frivolous use of tokens.”
There's probably a lot of little nudges one can get in their life that make them more likely to pick up programming, but I think a big one for present generations is exposure to video games and video games being a thing that most of your friends do and compete on. When I was a teenager, boys were building PCs to play FPS games better, and now the younger guys entering the company cut their teeth modding Minecraft. Every exposure to "figuring something tricky out on the computer" is a potential gateway, and I think the social and cultural environment for guys exposes them to these little chances a lot more.
Current workplace has cargo-culted this so hard the tickets look like "As a backend foo-server, I need to modify the baz function to create an interface for blargh requests."
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