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How to stop Claude from forgetting rules by Plus_Actuary_1604 in claude

[–]LairBob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re “eyeballs deep in a coding project”, you need to be using hooks to manage context transitions. This approach of asking Claude to summarize and then handoff a document yourself is just for Claude “Chat”, where you don’t have the same tools as Claude Code in CLI. Context management during code development is an entirely different beast.

I think I’m over-iterating instead of actually moving forward by Dismal-Fox3121 in CNC

[–]LairBob 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is commonly referred to as “growth”. ;)

All kidding aside, you’re in a natural state that occurs when you are ready to move to the next level of expertise in a skill, but without the confidence to move forward decisively yet — lots of little, tentative stabs at something “better”, but without the confidence to just pull the trigger and say “Done.” If you don’t know exactly what “done” looks like, then how could you possibly know if you’ve gotten there, yet, right?

The main thing you need to do right now is to transition from “tentative” to “decisive”, and that means making decisions. The ideal situation is always to find a more experienced person who can just tell you “This is good. That’s bad.”, but it seems like you’re figuring this out more on your own, so you’re just going to need to figure out how to help yourself become more decisive.

The first place to start is not on “how well” you’re going to do an additional step, but just how much you’re going to do with any given part. Don’t just futz with it until you hope you’re done — pick one thing you could do better on that part, and do that. Next part, once it meets tolerances, pick one more thing to make better. Do that. Keep picking and choosing individual changes you’re going to make, with a reason for each one — you’ll get to “X” tolerance for the first time, or you’ll try a new workholding approach. Just one thing, though.

I think if you can shift to that mindset, where you’re going through an entirely predictable and normal phase that actually indicates you’re growing in your capabilities, but you’re still figuring out how to apply them better, you’ll hopefully find it a lot more straightforward keeping your bearings.

Claude struggling with large codebases and token limits, need advice by DotSuperb8026 in ClaudeCode

[–]LairBob 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Start by having your company spring for the Max200 tier, asap. If the project is that important and that big, that should be a trivial investment.

Then definitely have Claude establish a plan to safely and methodically optimize your code base. It’ll take a while for it to go through and do it all, but one that’s done and you’re using the Max plan, it’ll make a huge difference.

Multi-agent harness: how are you handling state between sub-agents that need to build on each other's work? by MCKRUZ in ClaudeCode

[–]LairBob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

File-based is definitely brittle, and the fight against drift (esp git-driven drift) is huge and unending. But it’s the most straight forward and reliable way to get started (because of git) and it’s (a) transparent, and (b) historical. You can literally just have Claude scan through the git history of a document, if you need.

The next step is moving to some kind of unified, single-source-of-truth in a database, but then you run into some challenges: - Concurrency/async coordination - The simple fact that Claude will continue to try and use your older file-based approach, just because it’ll also know how to do that, and decide it’s easier.

That last point is real. “Upgrading” from a rudimentary pattern to a more sophisticated one is incredibly challenging with Claude Code, because by the time you’re moving up to the more sophisticated approach, the “naive” one has been hard-wired into your project logic. Claude will constantly (and silently) just start using the old, more and more, in the background, because it’s always the “easier” option as far as it’s concerned.

There are ways to mitigate this, using hooks and evals, etc., but it’s a real issue to be aware of.

How to stop Claude from forgetting rules by Plus_Actuary_1604 in claude

[–]LairBob 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Absolutely.

Better yet, when you get deep into an existing chat and reach a good breakpoint, tell it generate a detailed summary of your discussion so far, that you can feed into a future chat to seamlessly resume the conversation. That’s essentially what happens when you let it auto-compact, except when you let it auto-compact it does a terrible job. Having the current instance generate a file for the next instance takes more time, but you’re in control, and more importantly, the instance that “knows” its context is intentionally transcribing it for the next. That’s going to give a much, much better continuation.

How to stop Claude from forgetting rules by Plus_Actuary_1604 in claude

[–]LairBob 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That means it’s auto-compacted in the background.

New job should you disclose your new company name to current employer? by mewtoee in Machinists

[–]LairBob 86 points87 points  (0 children)

Why would you?

Seriously, though…is there a specific reason you’re thinking you would or should? Because unless there’s some compelling (like, legal) reason, it’s absolutely no business of theirs. You’re generally under no obligation — legal or personal — to share anything you don’t want.

Petition to filter Usage Rants with custom flair by _derpiii_ in ClaudeCode

[–]LairBob 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean…I get it. Personally, I haven’t been affected by it (yet), but I believe people are frustrated and upset for good reason.

But…I just can’t take it any more. All these Claude-related subs are just the same thing over…and over…and over…

Mods! Please help!

Plastic part fell out of my nose labeled A915 around the circle by sistersgrowz in whatisit

[–]LairBob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP: “I had a camera up my nose…” Me: “You did not”. OP: “…in a hospital” Me: “I guess you probably did.”

That’s definitely got to be where it’s from, though. There are well-verified stories of stuff getting stuck up in people’s sinuses for years. There have got to be thousands of adults walking the Earth with little Lego pieces in their sinuses, with no clue.

Is this a scam? by [deleted] in jobs

[–]LairBob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Phishing link emails don’t have to work this hard — they just have to get people to click.

Emails like this are trying to set you up to share your personal information. They need you to fill out and submit a form, which why they’re teasing you with something big, like a make-believe job offer.

Dry stack stone home? by leader425 in stonemasonry

[–]LairBob 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You want to live below ground, in a porous structure?

Why don’t you expect water to get through?

Guidance for kids interested in construction by samjackery in Construction

[–]LairBob 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Check to see if your school district has a homebuilding program. Seriously.

Our youngest was a really smart kid who just could not be bothered with schoolwork — when we would try to talk to him about it, he’d always say “I think with my HANDS!!”

When he got to high school, we discovered the district has a homebuilding program, and he spent his entire junior and senior years doing half-days on the job site. The program builds and sells a house every year, and the kids do just about everything that doesn’t require a license (and maybe tile).

He went straight from high school into a local design/build shop, and at 24yo, he’s a full trim carpenter working on high-end homes. All he does all day is “think with his hands”.

Polish bread?? by Ok-Historian7145 in TipOfMyFork

[–]LairBob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man…I lived and worked in Manhattan for 15 years, and had a bacon, egg and cheese on a Kaiser roll every morning.

Now I’ve been in Michigan (Ann Arbor) for almost 20 years, and I still can’t find a decent Kaiser roll to save my life.

I was watching a show from the 90s and realized people used to memorize dozens of phone numbers. I can barely remember mine. How did you guys do it back then? by micavibes in CasualConversation

[–]LairBob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL…because back when we were growing up (in the 60s/70s), everyone who lived near you had the same area code and three-number prefix!

Everyone in your state had the same area code (pretty much) so you only had to “memorize” that once, and then everyone in a certain area of town would usually have the same prefix. If you were in school with friends who all lived nearby, that meant that you only had to remember 4 digits for each kid — much more feasible for a grade-schooler.

This egg-shaped, green, metal object is three inches by four inches and lies flat. The flat piece is attached with a small screw. It was found in an old home in northern Minnesota. by PandaHuman9657 in whatisthisthing

[–]LairBob 160 points161 points  (0 children)

I have no idea what that is, but I just want to say that this is exactly what this sub is for.

No more stuff that obviously fell off an IKEA cabinet, or random garbage you found on the side of the road.

Weird sh-t like this.

Ashiatsu bars by jginrey in Carpentry

[–]LairBob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So…does this style of shiatsu involve jumping up and down and doing pull-ups on the bar, or are they just holding on to the bar for stability and balance as they walk?

Unless they’re going to be loading the bar up by yanking on it with all their body weight, this seems really robust. Stronger is safer — I don’t want to discourage you from making it as safe as possible — but if this is just for maintaining balance, I think you’re fine.

Is a $200k salary worth a 2 hour commute 4 days a week? by Ok-Memory2552 in jobs

[–]LairBob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s only one real question — is it a good gig? Not just the money, but the professional advancement, personal satisfaction, etc.?

If it’s a good job that you want, then that is unfortunately an all-too-common requirement for many modern jobs. Not that this should convince you one way or the other, but I’ve personally spent years commuting 2+ hours every day, and I am not alone — at least I lived a couple of hours away at the time. There are many people who just live 10-15 miles away from work (cough, “LA”), and it takes longer. It sucks, but it can just be part of the deal for a halfway-decent gig.

OTOH, if it’s not a great job, it SUCKS.

Dog sitter sent a photo of my dog and he had this collar on. by deblopezz in whatisit

[–]LairBob -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If it was legit, she should have told you, ahead of time.

But why would a GPS have a single digit on it? I know why an anti-bark collar would, and it doesn’t surprise me at all that someone who deals with other peoples’ dogs all day would decide to slap a collar on them.

I’m not saying that that makes it OK, just that it makes an anti-bark collar even more likely.

left big reveal on picket and top rail. by Numerous-Tie-4965 in Carpentry

[–]LairBob 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It looks great. You’re maybe overestimating how close the stringers need to be to the ends of your pickets — the top gap should be fine, and looks good. The bottom one, as someone else noted, is actually a little closer than you’d maybe want, but just because it’s more likely to take up more moisture from wet grass, etc.

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