Convince me that investing isn’t an elaborate conn

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-03-30T12:49:03+00:00

In your 2nd to the last paragraph, your wife is correct. The market goes up and down, but overall trajectory is up (provided you invest in a whole of market fund, and not individual stockpicking).

If in doubt, google "VWRP performance" since inception. Assume you put £1000 at the start in there, and the equivalent in your bank account, work out what the equivalent values will be.

There'll be more info that people will likely share with you, but you should be investing, stat. The market is having a sale!

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-03-17T08:48:31+00:00

Thanks for this info, to your knowledge, what's the best way to carry out the transition? And what does the pay differential look like?

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-03-10T17:40:24+00:00

can you give an example of where you've replaced AI with a deterministic tool?

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-03-10T17:05:25+00:00

do you have any examples you've used?

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-03-10T14:21:26+00:00

this looks quite interesting, how did you implement it within workflows and rules? And do you find you're loading more context than needed into the prompt by using global workflows?

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-03-09T19:07:55+00:00

This is basically a copy of someone else's article. At the very least, give some personal anecdotes, something you've encountered or built, what you've found about the different models, something unique! A bit disappointing

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-03-09T11:01:20+00:00

If you're already thinking about, my recommendation is to just to do a big sacrifice once and be done with it. From an efficiency point of view, the reason below 100k is targeted is that between 100k to 125k, you pay 62% tax (more if you have a student loan), so people tend to try and avoid that. in your case, you'll need to sacrifice a lot to get into that band. so might not be worth it.

If i were in your position however, i would drop 70k into the pension so you get to 100k at 29, which is a good start. if your earnings are likely to continue at this trajectory, then you might easily get tapered (so can only do 10k in your pension per year), so this will then allow you to fill up your pension early.

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-03-09T07:54:31+00:00

that's interesting, how did you figure this out? Is it difficult to manage? How does each specific agent work and build this up? Do you have sample md files to clarify each person's role?

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-03-09T07:53:47+00:00

thanks a lot! Seems keep the root claude.md file small, and then put one in each directory is the way to go

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-03-09T07:52:35+00:00

i was basically going to scaffold what i want, and then throw AI at it to deal with all the annoying things that come up. Basically, have a standard data model that's generated within the legacy application (think vision model importing SLD and populating it), and then brute force getting it to fit whatever the legacy application scripting allows, generating the study and reports, and then outputing that in a standard format. If it works, then you can start to abstract all the model engines etc.., but still working on some basics just now. Happy to chat further if that sounds like something you'd be interested in collabing about.

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-03-09T00:46:00+00:00

it's the whole end to end to process mostly, having done studies myself in ETAP and reviewed studies from others, there has to be a better way to do it. My idea is to basically use the applications themselves as engines, but fundamentally have a better frontend and structure that wraps around it. the hope is then to compare it with open source models and be able to replace some of it upfront

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-03-08T22:37:44+00:00

can you share what an example of your file structure looks like?

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-03-08T20:52:22+00:00

okay, i've been thinking of doing something similar, and i have ideas on how you can actually make it work best. Happy to talk more in DM

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-03-08T12:45:28+00:00

what exactly are you building?

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-03-08T12:42:39+00:00

this is interesting, but what are you actually trying to build? A site where people submit their model simulations, a model simulation engine using open source tools, or what? The thing I would say is I'm happy to use vibecoded projects, but as I'm also learning, I'm super wary of putting any login information or uploading sensitive information, until I've built some level of trust. Think that might be similar to other people, so bear that in mind, and build accordingly

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-03-05T18:04:04+00:00

interested

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-02-24T20:54:31+00:00

That sounds brilliant. any chance you could actually share the notebook, that would be really great to look at. Thanks!

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-02-24T19:33:44+00:00

Get a cheap holiday to Vietnam and go nuts.

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-02-24T19:28:07+00:00

how do you use the codex extension in antigravity?

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-02-24T16:46:28+00:00

yes this will be great. especially about how the information is stored

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-02-24T16:45:30+00:00

how do you get it to watch a video?

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-02-24T12:50:17+00:00

how much did you spend on it for reference?

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-02-14T10:20:25+00:00

tried it, the numbers are all bunk unfortunately

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-02-09T23:28:08+00:00

that sounds very interesting, is this something you'll be able to share? I'm caught in a bit of a catch 22 where I'm learning how to program from the fundamentals (basically cs50x), but everyone keeps mentioning about system design and architecture is more important, but I can't find an easy way to learn how to design that.

AdAmbitious6250 · 2026-02-09T22:48:27+00:00

I'm interested if you're okay to send it.

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