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Showerthoughts

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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:

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  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • 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.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

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[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I haven't tried lately, several months ago I tried asking the chatbots directly: What's the size of your context window. Gemini answered straight out: "32,767 tokens, and that's not as good for developing complex software as a larger context window like Claude Sonnet's 200,000 tokens."

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Gemini is 1 million now. But you should probably stop before then. And yes, it's surprisingly honest about whether it's the right model for your needs. It's recommended me to go with Claude for some of my projects.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 16 hours ago

Back when Sonnet was 200K and Opus was 1M, there were a lot of complex programming projects where I actually got better overall results out of Sonnet... but, go back to the 3.x days and Sonnet got stuck in debug loops fairly often where Opus would break out of the loop and find a working solution more often.