I had a project recently based on incidental learning. The idea is, if you’re exposed to something repeatedly without thinking about it, you’ll learn it. I wrote an app to replace random words on your phone with Spanish translations, so you can learn Spanish.<\/p>\n
I was coding for years before AI. Right when it finally clicked was like, boom, ChatGPT went viral<\/a>. I’m still trying to figure out: Did I learn to code at the best time or the worst time?<\/p>\n ChatGPT feels unlimited sometimes; I rarely hit my limits. I feel Claude is a lot higher in quality, but the tokens you hit really fast. For things that are really important, I tend to use Claude. ChatGPT is really for anything.<\/p>\n I was running out of Claude tokens<\/a>. I’m on the plan that’s $20 a month. I was always exploring different ways to make this cheaper.<\/p>\n When you’re talking to AI, you sometimes find yourself slipping into caveman. I used to say: “You write code.” My idea was like, why don’t we skip articles and different parts of speech?<\/p>\n My first idea was baby talk, but caveman talk wrote better, and it was funnier.<\/p>\n Alexander Huso asked Claude how many tokens he’d save from caveman speak.\u00a0<\/p>\n Alexander Huso<\/p>\n Originally, I was using it to break some bug bounties<\/a>. You can ethically hack something with permission, and if you find a vulnerability, they’ll pay you for it. They’re going to take a lot of work, so I shouldn’t expect to get one in a day. It was something I was dabbling with.<\/p>\n I was dropping APK files into Claude Code, and being like, “See what you can do with it.” That’s what I mostly used the caveman mode for: hacking Android apps.<\/p>\n I have not gotten a bug bounty yet. Caveman talk hurts the quality a lot. Anytime there’s something important, I don’t want to use it. “Me write code” is not as good a chain-of-thought reasoning as it would have been by default.<\/p>\n I wouldn’t trust it to write any serious code.<\/p>\n As an afterthought, I threw it on Reddit. One of my favorite YouTubers<\/a> made a video about my idea, which messed me up for a couple of days.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n