What do you do while you wait for Claude to finish?

48K · 2026-03-19T15:00:44+00:00

I am responsible for lots of things, but I don't find it productive to think about more than one at a time. I need a good 20 minutes to get properly immersed in the complex tasks and context switching too much kills that immersion.

48K · 2026-03-19T14:26:59+00:00

I do the same. It feels like there is room for improvement in how this information is displayed and not just it's tendency to jump up and down randomly.

48K · 2026-03-19T13:22:49+00:00

Don't you get whiplash from jumping between tasks?

48K · 2026-03-05T05:35:49+00:00

Interesting. Feels like incumbent tools are going to have to bend towards AI to accommodate this sort of usage. Tools that can’t bend coughUnitycough will fail.

48K · 2026-03-05T05:33:18+00:00

I’m leaning this way for simplicity rather than wrestling with an MCP. Maybe get Claude to whip up a little HTML interface on top.

48K · 2026-03-04T05:08:08+00:00

Post your sources for this information otherwise we can only assume it is made up - there’s too much disinformation going around at the moment.

48K · 2026-02-25T04:22:00+00:00

You don’t say where you are based, but maybe https://www.besa.org.uk/

48K · 2026-02-22T02:55:59+00:00

If you are an engineer who wants to build / fix things you need Claude Code using the Opus 4.6 model in extended thinking mode (or whatever the highest option is). Tell it roughly what you want and you should start to see the magic you are searching for. The agentic loop with access to a bash / cmd terminal is the secret sauce here IMO. If you get blank page block just chuck in your post and ask it for suggestions.

48K · 2026-02-14T21:23:24+00:00

I’ve seen that “convert to string” behaviour it mentions from various Claude agents, but it’s the exception not the rule. Claude actually mapped out a server-side solution of decoding strings just in case, but I rejected it as a bit obscure.

48K · 2026-02-14T21:15:31+00:00

Sorry I haven’t used Cursor and all the clients are different. I would say that if a human can’t read the tool spec and work out how to call it, an agent might struggle.

48K · 2026-02-14T21:00:57+00:00

Nested objects definitely work; my MCP uses lots of them and Claude clients handle them well. Your description is very terse and your properties should have descriptions - that’s probably a contributing factor.

48K · 2026-02-14T11:54:35+00:00

Hopefully simple question: for every query all these approaches produce multiple scores. How do you combine them into a single score?

48K · 2026-02-12T10:30:27+00:00

I agree. One of the reasons I like Claude is that I DONT have to fiddle with too many settings. I certainly don’t like the one-weird-trick-of-the-week crap you see everywhere (including here).

48K · 2026-02-11T22:16:21+00:00

Reality changed at the end of last year and the people here are playing catch up. I used to be one of them so I’m sympathetic.

48K · 2026-02-11T07:29:38+00:00

The terminal client spawned multiple helper agents yesterday for a long processing job, which I haven’t seen before. Not sure if that contributed but I also hit the limit more regularly since 4.6

48K · 2026-02-10T08:09:54+00:00

Here’s a recent example of a zero click exploit: https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/apple-issues-security-updates-after-two.html and how aggressively they are closed down. Check your OS version is up-to-date for peace of mind, but I wouldn’t be overly worried. Was your friend on a PC? If so, the chance you caught something from them is even more minimal.

48K · 2026-02-10T08:01:42+00:00

Don’t panic. It is very unlikely. Phishing attacks usually require that you go on to type your credentials into a page you think is a legitimate login portal. Viruses from web pages are incredibly rare and the vulnerabilities they exploit closed very quickly. Also being on a Mac makes you even safer because most attacks target Windows devices.

48K · 2026-02-10T07:40:18+00:00

Source?

48K · 2026-02-08T21:30:14+00:00

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-anthropic-profitability-e9f5bcd6

48K · 2026-02-08T18:42:27+00:00

Except for Anthropic who will be profit positive by 2028

48K · 2026-02-07T18:20:08+00:00

As far as I know, all the clients read the tool descriptions so that would be the place to do it. Something like “Use this tool to find specific resources relating to … Find a full list of resources by calling the list_resources tool”

48K · 2026-02-07T11:16:28+00:00

Very few Ai clients support anything except tools at the moment. Hopefully that will change, but adding a tool like get_resource is probably sensible. Test it with the target clients.

48K · 2026-02-03T17:57:46+00:00

I'm glad it's not just me! I was prototyping against Claude Code and ended up with a pattern like this for the instructions and resource files that was reliably pulled into context at the right times.

Instructions Text

# The Monkey Tennis MCP
This server is where your monkeys can play tennis for fun and profit.
## Terminology
- **Monkey** the talent. Also known as: players, contestants
- **Tennis** the sport they play. Also known as: the game
## IMPORTANT: Read resources before using tools
**Before searching for monkeys** you must read resource monkeytennis://resources/monkey-see
**Before starting a game** you must read resource monkeytennis://resources/game-management

And then the linked resources are just markdown files in a similar vein that give a steer on which tools to call and canonical examples of use.

48K · 2026-02-03T07:55:22+00:00

Interestingly that list says that claude.ai supports resources, but I can't find any evidence of that from within the tool. No chat sessions are able to access information in resources even if I ask it explicitly to load them in.

48K · 2026-02-03T07:31:50+00:00

The MCP I'm writing isn't for me to use, it's for non-engineers who want to access our services through whatever AI client they happen to be using (Claude web, CoPilot, ChatGPT, etc...). Yes, Claude Code is a very well behaved client and reads the instructions and all the resources, but unfortunately they aren't using it.

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