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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
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This is the power of specifications. With a specification, the LLM can create a test to ensure what it creates meets the specification. Then the agent can iterate on solution after solution until its proposed solution meets all your specifications. Then you get to discover how many holes you left open in your specifications.
Another thing AI agents based on LLMs aren't half bad at: reviewing specifications for completeness and readiness for implementation. They'll go ahead and fill in the blanks for you if you ask them to, but if you ask them instead to point out the holes then you can decide what should be done instead of "yeah, just make mine like all the other ones you have seen in your training."