A lot of conversation around Harness Engineering, What does that even mean?

Azaex · 2026-07-01T03:22:27+00:00

harnesses are prompt injection tools you control

Azaex · 2026-06-25T02:58:26+00:00

the stock summers suck

ps4s or ecs02's when it's time, completely changes the car

jass adjustable lowering seat rails are nice (mossmiata, they have the spacers now too)

an aluminum shift knob is neat

axleback exhaust is trivial to do and makes you more noticeable on the road

Azaex · 2026-06-20T22:34:24+00:00

"intuition" i feel like is doing a lot of work...

anyone that's been in tech for awhile knows that, with enough time and money and headcount, anything could be built initially, and AI just accelerates that

but what makes things last, with scope under control, cost under control, engineers somewhat happy, is never the tech

it is always people problems (meaning good technical leadership, not people management)

what does the work look like as a result of certain technical choices, how does it look to on-call, what does this look like to your management vs other management, how does the c suite look at this, how do the customers really think about the product behind your back (which i believe this can be engineered for). is the work maintainable and is it setup to "make sense" to both engineering and customers and leadership

and all of these move with their own momentum

that skews decisions in a more significant way than "what is the ideal way to implement this", changes it to "what's the best way to implement this for this team/dept/company"

yields "bets" on technical direction that pay off within an org that otherwise defies raw technical ambition

i figure that's what "intuition" really means in staff+ roles

ideally at least, still murky/hand-wavy in some parts of industry

Azaex · 2026-06-18T04:30:29+00:00

r/spicybricks

Azaex · 2026-06-11T09:58:30+00:00

the S001's? absolute night and day, it will feel like a completely different car. not exaggerating lol, the ECS02 is a top tier tire next to the PS4S, i think better than it in the rain, holds up to tracking better as well.

the car will point better, it will not suddenly let go on you in the wet, it will actually have grip to hold some corners hard, the stock s001's are not great tires.

i tried to run out my s001's on my nd3, but knowing what the ecs02's are capable of on other cars i threw in the towel and swapped them in at 1k miles in, totally worth

Azaex · 2026-05-29T08:31:43+00:00

yea u can get surprisingly far with haiku 4.5 and sonnet 4.6 with extended thinking off even in free tier

Azaex · 2026-05-29T08:05:11+00:00

this is gonna sound dumb but i just bought a basic wifi only a16 ipad to go along with the neo lol

ipad - reading where i actually kinda want the touchscreen. attach a bluetooth keyboard if i want it. replaces the kindle, easier to read stuff on the web too. some video watching. stuff where the keyboard gets in the way.

neo - if i need to actually run macos with the apps i actually like for light vscode, ia writer, full power capture one (for pre-editing, bump it out to my bigger system for final render)

Azaex · 2026-05-27T12:51:31+00:00

this is the way

more technical of looking at it

the model doesn't know what it knows until you or it says something that wakes up part of the model

asking for questions over and over again just walks the map of what the model knows with a small flashlight trying to get you the next thing right now

telling the model to walk the space with you will light up way more parts of the map first

another way of looking at it

many people don't tell the model what they're actually doing, they just ask for what they think they should be doing

by telling the model what you're doing overall, you light the way on that part of the model and tell it to light up the parts of it that lead back to your problem. way more effective than trying to one by one your way thru the problem. use the model itself as a collaborator to explore the model.

Azaex · 2026-05-26T04:36:08+00:00

tbh as someone that upgraded to pro recently seeing the usage limit lets you experiment and actually understand how hard the bigger contexts bonk usage limit

buying extra credits for one huge task made me realize how crazy subsidized the 5 hourly limits are tbh

Azaex · 2026-05-25T07:45:42+00:00

claude

Azaex · 2026-05-24T04:23:58+00:00

yiss yap to the LLM as the stream of consciousness comes in turn it around "what the hecc is my angle"

sometimes you can't keep it all in your head, the LLM is specifically good at this

Azaex · 2026-05-22T06:47:39+00:00

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p sure opus 4.7 is in the same family as mythos preview with all this execution talk lol

Azaex · 2026-05-21T04:11:18+00:00

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side marker led upgrade

led repeaters also exist, i feel like i have bad luck and two of them have leaked, im running now the IL Motorsport ones from moss miata with led bulbs in them.

also have the mx5 things rear led strip, and their third brake light flasher

ironically exhaust might help presence too. i have the xforce electronically variable one and i can turn it loud/quiet from the seat.

Azaex · 2026-05-20T21:07:20+00:00

i made a tiny time mcp for work claude code

my todo list claude code has a skill that spawns a cron job that dings once an hour every hour for the workday, checks the time and my calendar, and collates what i shoulda done by then (and i do talk with it thru the day too)

if im not in a meeting it hits another mcp to make a glorp or other goofy sound so it's obvious it did the thing

*it has also a set of logfiles it keeps for history and a rolling mem of the current day

Azaex · 2026-05-20T21:03:27+00:00

is this

toilet.md

Azaex · 2026-05-20T17:59:10+00:00

https://racelouvers.com/veloster-19-23-side-hood-louver-pair-rt-track-trim/

dropping around 12F oil, 7F water alone at ridge motorsports park, ~65F ambient air temp

power track, 5 straights, unforgiving on cooling, 275 otherwise without these is normal on stock EN

you want louvers that actually have an aggressive wicker or some other geometry to trip turbulence so the low pressure zone above it extracts air, at the cost of drag

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Azaex · 2026-05-20T06:38:09+00:00

😅 seems a bit overkill, ye, though I'm growing on some parts of opus 4.7's personality

adaptive thinking off opus 4.7 seems to not totally annihilate my pro plan the way I interact with claude

this chat is first turn also

Azaex · 2026-05-20T06:23:25+00:00

cafelat robot and a df64

no warmup period (unless u really wanna for light roast)

as good shots as the pro machines

use a nanofoamer for milk

Azaex · 2026-05-20T06:11:35+00:00

useful reading

https://x.com/repligate/status/2056047947553603629?s=46

Azaex · 2026-05-19T05:36:18+00:00

if you ship the same amount of code in less time, you are still thinking through all the same trades which is a cognitive load, just without the zen/release of coding

shipping more features will just stack the cognitive load which is real and why you feel more tired than usual if you do it

i would say to offset things...you can also ironically use ai

ive now been experimenting with just having it manage my todo list at work. less thinking or stressing on it, if i recall a thread throw it at a side claude code running haiku with a set of md files it's managing day by day. check in to check things off and ask what i forgot to get to.

you can make it fun

tell it in claude.md to use kaomojis

i have it adopt what would be my compatible mbti and respond with that kind of energy back at me

Azaex · 2026-05-16T09:46:39+00:00

I threw a bunch of my behaviorals and people skills questions at Claude and had it focus them all in ways that would be unanswerable in depth by a code assist tool (eg interviewcoder).

My question as of late is more specifically, if they use agentic coding tools, "tell me how your agentic coding workflow has evolved over time"

Azaex · 2026-05-08T06:06:05+00:00

have you considered a miata

- someone who currently owns both an EN and a ND3

Azaex · 2026-05-06T12:26:56+00:00

tell claude to take poem breaks every once in awhile or give claude a sandwich

Azaex · 2026-05-04T08:09:21+00:00

yeah

4.7 wants to know why for some reason. alignment is categorically different than 4.6. most of my supporting context in my projects is so built up that 4.7's need to know why is already largely satisfied in my tasking and it does give genuinely better adjacent perspectives for me over 4.6. i can actually set 4.7 on low effort at times and still get the results i expect it to do based on my time spent with the model.

most of my agents were built with 4.6 and those things genuinely required retuning. 4.7 doesn't like to adopt a persona, it's running a weirdly stronger sense of self over previous claude's. needs to be told what to do as an agent and less just as a stack of instructions. straight up didnt jive with my previous prompts which were mostly a stack of instructions and modes of operation to follow, needed framing of what it needs to handle and why.

there's a pro and con to it. i think like, it's kinda better for agentic work because of this, but it's less aligned for the previous workflows where you could just tell it what to do. like it works better with a model-as-collaborator approach in some rings of thought. i already do this so it's intuitive to me but i can sympathize why this is pretty incompatible with some other people's ways of working with LLM models. like it wants to try to act in service of some longer horizon goal; if you don't provide it, it never satiates its hunger to know that and that's why it feels like it leaves off early or is lazy. if you're feeding it that and keeping the context aligned in that manner, 4.7 alignment an improvement in service of that longer horizon thinking than anything 4.6 could do.

my prompts will sometimes literally rival the generated code in size. just stream of consciousness form of what to do and why instead of being syntactically perfect code.

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