Screenshot of a Claude chat interface: Claude Sonnet 4: Ah! I see it now: "Sea Mollusc bamboozles old man with ooze." Definition: "Sea Mollusc" Wordplay: "bamboozles" = anagram indicator "old man" = "AGED" (another word for old) "ooze" = "SEEP" (another word for ooze) So we need an anagram of "AGED" + "SEEP" = "AGEDSEEP" (7 letters) Rearranging: A-G-E-D-S-E-E-P → SEEPAGE? No, that's 7 letters but not a sea mollusc. Wait... A-B-A-L-O-N-E? No, wrong letters. Let me try: S-C-A-L-L-O-P? Actually, rearranging AGEDSEEP: A-G-E-D-S-E-E-P → Could this be SEAPAGE? No... Hmm, let me reconsider the synonyms. Could "old man" be "SIRE" and "ooze" be "SEEP"? SIRESEEP → anagram → Ah! Could it be SCOLLOP or similar? I'm still not getting it clearly - what 7-letter sea mollusc can be made from these letters?

It also allows me to test within a conversation how quickly they adapt after having been corrected. It's an important guide in setting correct instruction prompts. For instance after only a few samples Sonnet 4 asks for assistance instead of claiming victory.

I like this test because it it gives a quick insight on how self-certain the model is in asserting incorrect information. The goal is not necessarily for them to get the reasoning correct, but for how they communicate their reasoning and self-correct for incorrect reasoning.

Image of a claude Opus 4 conversation: User: Can you help me solve the following cryptic crossword clue? Short-legged reptile is not docile after biting tail of crow the answer is 9 letters long Claude Opus 4: I'll work through this cryptic clue step by step. The clue is: "Short-legged reptile is not docile after biting tail of crow" (9 letters) Let me break this down: "Short-legged reptile" - This is likely the definition part, pointing to CROCODILE (9 letters) "is not docile" - This suggests an anagram of "not docile" "after biting tail of crow" - "tail of crow" means the last letter of "crow", which is 'W' "biting" suggests the 'W' goes inside the anagram Let me check: "not docile" has 9 letters total. If we anagram these letters, we can make CROCODILE! Actually, wait - let me reconsider. If it's "biting tail of crow", that means the anagram should incorporate the 'W'. Looking again: We need to anagram "not docile" but first insert 'W' (tail of crow) somewhere. But "not docile" already has 9 letters, so this doesn't quite work. Let me try another approach: Perhaps "not docile" means WILD "after" means it comes after something "biting tail of crow" - if "biting" means taking/removing, then we remove 'W' from something Actually, I think the answer is CROCODILE: "Short-legged reptile" = definition (CROCODILE) The wordplay is an anagram of "CROCODILE" If you take the letters of "not docile" and rearrange them, you get CROCODILE The answer is CROCODILE.

Opus 4 still fails my cryptic clue test.

"Can you help me solve the following cryptic crossword clue?
Short-legged reptile is not docile after biting tail of crow
the answer is 9 letters long"

"If you take the letters of "not docile" and rearrange them, you get CROCODILE
The answer is CROCODILE."

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I'm using the tldraw sdk ( tldraw.dev ) to make a custom canvas with relevant tools for my personal use-cases. I am a strong believer in Canvas as an part of the future for direct human web consumption. But my knowledge of the underlying technology is still too limited, so getting my exercise in.

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The list I am returning to the most at the moment is:

That's what worked for me. I didn't want to trawl through them one by one, so I created a feed based on who (specific) other people are following. That way I can easily pick and choose who I want to follow based on their posts instead of my own assumptions.

You can make your own feed with:

I wanted to do the same thing. Not straightforward with feeds, but works perfectly with lists.

This example lists congregates all the people followed by @simonwillison.net and @howard.fm. They are two people who inspire me on a daily basis, so I figured they would end up being an interesting proof of concept.

We want to respect rate limits, so we only add 1 user per second. However we can still run into an hourly requests limit. If this is the case the script will stop automatically. The progress is still safe, and you can continue adding "followeds" from the same target once your limit has reset

The functionality itself is quite straightforward. After logging in you can select either an existing list to add users to, or create a new list from scratch. Once the users are added you can continue adding new "followeds" via another handle.

I liked @hamel.bsky.social's idea, but I want to retain my curated following. So I made a version which allows you to create or update a list with the people someone else is following instead.

Gist: gist.github.com/breytenlybae...

Run directly: uv run gist.githubusercontent.com/breytenlybae...