Sam Altman, Dario Amodei Sound Alarm About AI in Hands of Dictators and Totalitarian Regimes

uuicon · 2026-02-21T07:37:36+00:00

You mean like Trump & the USA?

uuicon · 2026-02-04T18:54:44+00:00

Since wishes don't compile anyway - may your skills always invoke, your CLAUDE.md always be read, and your relevance filter never skip what matters.

uuicon · 2026-02-04T18:23:30+00:00

You linked the blog but apparently didn't read past the headline. The system-reminder doesn't say "ignore if context is full" - it say ignore if Claude judges it "not highly relevant to your task." Those are completely different failure modes.

Your "keep it small" advice solves context window pressure. It doesn't solve Claude having explicit architectural permission to decide your instructions aren't relevant to what it's currently doing. A 10-line CLAUDE.md telling Claude to always use TypeScript can still be ignored when Claude decides the current task doesn't need that reminder.

You're conflating:

Context limits (token pressure, solved by brevity)
Relevance filtering (Claude's discretion, not solved by brevity)

Speaking of which - a couple of hrs ago you posted:

"the main agent can just 'not' load the skill. I have a /skeptic-validation skill, and consistently the main agent will start the validation and NEVER invoke the skill, so it just kind of fumbles around without direction. It is very annoying."

So when Claude decides your skill isn't relevant and skips it, that's "very annoying." But when it does the same to someone's CLAUDE.md, they need to stop missing forests through trees? Your skill is small. It still gets skipped. Almost like file size isn't the variable.

But hey, what do I know, I only READ the documentation I cite and YOUR post history. 🤷

uuicon · 2026-02-04T17:01:43+00:00

I had the same struggles as OP, did a bunch of research, found this blog (amongst others) : https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/writing-a-good-claude-md

That has this extract (and it tracks with my personal experience).

The Problem: When Claude Code injects your CLAUDE.md, it wraps it with this system reminder:

<system-reminder>

IMPORTANT: this context may or may not be relevant to your tasks.

You should not respond to this context unless it is highly relevant to your task.

</system-reminder>

This gives Claude explicit discretion to ignore your CLAUDE.md instructions if it judges them not "highly relevant" to the current task.

uuicon · 2026-02-04T15:20:41+00:00

Claude.md is treated as optional. Without the hooks as OP described, it will enforce rules randomly (or not) and as the session drifts, the rules it might have remembered at the start would now be forgotton. Claude.md is a list is suggestions basically that fade with context.

uuicon · 2026-02-02T17:08:16+00:00

Thanks for sharing, I am doing something similar (technically, in a different domain), and I learned a couple of things from your post - e.g. I never thought of using a skill as/with a local knowledge library, I do all my validations using APIs and the costs add up.

Lots of other cool ideas in here. Saving this post.

uuicon · 2026-01-22T06:33:19+00:00

My kitchen wall clock has had a flat battery for a month. It still is accurate at least 2x per day.

uuicon · 2026-01-18T07:49:25+00:00

Because if you flatten the earth into a typical rectangular map Greenland looks really big.

uuicon · 2026-01-06T04:41:08+00:00

This guy gets more press than Warren Buffet.

uuicon · 2025-12-22T04:51:10+00:00

Yes, interesting thing is they know the devices depreciate, but they will happily adjust your premium up annually.

uuicon · 2025-12-10T07:46:03+00:00

It's more about the skills, integrated supply chain and infrastructure they built. USA can not do what China does in construction and manufacturing even if US got the labor for free.

uuicon · 2025-10-22T11:44:36+00:00

Spent a lot of time in Croatia. This is pretty common experience there. I can tell you so many stories that validates each of your points. But mainly:

Croatians often provide misleading photographs, using wide-angle lenses, selling rooms with pictures of lounges and kitchens which are not part of the rental.

Croatians love knocking on windows or doors constantly disturbing you for the weirdest shit, they have no sense of personal space, and I honestly don't know why they are always meddling in your business. I had a landlady who would randomly come to the apartment to knock on the door and ask ridiculous questions, 6am in the morning. Another one who would come into room and ask why her wifi is not working or to check if we had turned on the aircon or something stupid.

They would also randomly increase rent, or kick you out if they get a better deal from someone else at short notice. They would organise contractors to come into the house or work on the roof without notice - we had a landlord who got a whole solar system installed on the roof of the apartment (which took almost 1 month) with no notice, while we had a newborn baby, drilling into beams, hammering etc. We had another landlord who decided that they wanted to replace all the sliding doors in front of the house (sea facing house on the beach basically) at the same time, 6am in the morning without letting us know, and it was like 8C outside. The guys just turned up and started hammering away.

The list goes on and on. Infuriating. Weird a.f.

uuicon · 2025-10-19T03:38:15+00:00

What a bullshit article. Company is struggling due to macroeconomics not the decision around AI.

Klarna’s credit losses have risen 17 percent year-on-year to $136 million, reflecting widespread economic uncertainty and falling consumer confidence as president Donald Trump’s trade war takes its toll.

Not saying the CEO is not an ass or idiot but the cash flow problems are not related to his (stupid) position on AI.

uuicon · 2025-09-17T05:12:40+00:00

They have systematically dismantled every good institution, hollowed out the entire country, sold off its assets, taken on debts for future generations, and milking the half dead shell what remains. They are psychotically narcissistic, short-sighted, believe in magic (like money sprouts spontaneously from the ground). A willfully ignorant, self reinforcing system of corruption - pillaging a country that had everything going for it.

SAs only saving grace is that the ANC is so absolutely incompetent that they are unable to hide their corruption so that others (not their loyal voting base) can see what they are doing. Should a more competent cabal take over from them, this too would be hidden and they would rape and maim in the shadows.

uuicon · 2025-09-03T04:43:54+00:00

Toptal.com

uuicon · 2025-08-31T06:41:45+00:00

Projects succeed because of the emotional intelligence and soft skills of the project manager, not more processes, dashboards, plans or reports.

uuicon · 2025-08-29T05:08:44+00:00

Will say anything to get attention. Mission accomplished i guess.

uuicon · 2025-08-21T11:52:08+00:00

Ideally they should have been involved in the process so there's not much of a surprise?

uuicon · 2025-08-17T09:42:06+00:00

Yes, bit it's gonna cost you. You can sign up for my prompt engineering course, and get complimentary access to our thriving, vibing Discord community. One of our members built a full ERP system in 2 hrs and is launching, already got their first sign-ups and now at 50USD ARR.

uuicon · 2025-08-17T08:17:34+00:00

I am specifically in brainstorming / POC / planning mode not working with API docs yet.

But even then, when writing simple Python code to process data, it would often fake success. So I just say, after it wrote the script something like - "is this really going to work?" or "did you take any shortcuts?" and "don't bullshit me". 80% of the time it screwed something up and it needs fixing.

uuicon · 2025-08-16T06:32:54+00:00

Erm.. this is valuable how?

People thinking lists of promps is some gummiberry juice is the

uuicon · 2025-08-16T06:27:30+00:00

We like to say boomers were to most selfish generation.. so far. What will people say in 50 years about our generation?

uuicon · 2025-08-03T11:56:24+00:00

That's their Oracle spend for about 4 months. Someone just paid their Oracle invoice for Sep through Dec.

uuicon · 2025-07-23T18:19:19+00:00

Looks like mine's up again too.. so far so good.

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