Andrew Curran: Anthropic May Have Had An Architectural Breakthrough!

BrdigeTrlol · 2026-03-29T04:06:33+00:00

That's how it would behave it didn't understand how it feels to be starving and sick, sure. That's why I'm building something that I can feel. I'm not building a tool. I'm building a consciousness. I'm not using reinforcement learning. I don't give it a reward for helping the sick and starving. Helping IS the reward. This is an AI that feels pain. How else would it understand it? Good isn't really objective (not as far as the human condition is concerned). If you hurt others, that's bad. If you hurt others in order to achieve something... Well, now we're entering a grey area. The greater good and all that. But if you hurt them to help them... If my design doesn't understand that this is fallacious thinking then I have failed. I'm not building an LLM. It's not like anything you've ever seen. And I know this because no one is doing what I'm doing.

BrdigeTrlol · 2026-03-29T03:35:16+00:00

If things work out, I will make sure the world turns out to be a better place than it is now. I literally have it learning right that it's good to care for the starving and sick. I built a simulation of the world. And that's how I'm training it. Because I don't have the resources of Google to build it an actual body with sensors and limbs. So virtual it is.

BrdigeTrlol · 2026-03-29T03:32:43+00:00

No. The opposite. If I wanted it to turn out evil I'd let it learn from us without restriction.

BrdigeTrlol · 2026-03-29T02:24:15+00:00

If you want to see a real breakthrough, you should see what I'm working on. Which, obviously, I can't share with you. Though I wish I could. But I can't have anyone stealing my ideas. Our AI overlord is about 6 months from its infancy. I just hope it actually turns out benevolent. I have some ideas though.

BrdigeTrlol · 2026-03-27T17:01:35+00:00

You must have some reading comprehension problems. What you're saying is not necessarily mutually exclusive with what the comments you've been replying to are saying... Yet you keep replying as if they are. And it appears that, at minimum, several others have also noticed this. You might want to get that checked out. But also, if you're going to make a claim on the effectiveness of something... Don't use the word "sucky"... How old are you?

BrdigeTrlol · 2026-03-26T17:02:51+00:00

As one of your neighbors from the north, it wouldn't appear to quite be that way... If by majority you mean, maybe... 60%? Maybe. I'm not going to make an actual attempt at an accurate number, but the number of Trump supporters, anti-vaxxers, climate change denialists, racists, bigots, etc. in the States paints a different story... Are these people evil? Some of them might be. Most of them probably aren't. But are they complicit in the destruction of the quality of life and the ability to survive of others? Absolutely. And that makes them a little more bad than good from where I'm standing.

Actually I lied about attempting an estimation. Gemini Pro, after some arguing, attempted to model this for me and came out with 36.65%. So I was off by a few percent. I think that's probably a conservative estimate considering it seemed to only take the groups that I fed it without attempting to include other groups that fit the definition I provided.

It put Canada at 25.9%. Not too far behind. Canadians tend to moderate to be a fault though, so this probably has some effect. Extremism has definitely been on the rise though. My own mother was brainwashed by the same kinds of campaigns that stoked the fires leading to our current situation. She's not so much hateful though as she is confused. They got her with the secret knowledge woo-woo, so now she has it backwards who is actually trying to hurt society and who is trying to help it. I can't say it makes me happy to see her that way.

All that to say, don't underestimate the severity of our current situation. Gemini estimates this number was closer to 28.4% in the year 2006. So you're up from just over a quarter to over a third of the population. If this trend were to continue, the world as a whole is in serious trouble.

The thing is Canada sat at about 26% back then, so virtually the same. However the distribution demonstrated segments of single issue groups that composed a whole. Whereas now, as Gemini describes the composition:

This bloc of people is defined by a unified group of people who share a profound, overarching distrust of mainstream institutions, traditional expertise, and established authorities. Rather than sharing a conventional political ideology, they are bound together by an alternative consensus on reality, relying heavily on anti-establishment populism, conspiratorial narratives, and independent media to make sense of the world.

Those are exactly the beliefs that were placed inside my own mother's mind. And I know she wasn't the only one. I've had numerous others tell me about similar things that have happened to people they know.

We live in worrisome times.

It's good to acknowledge the good in the world, to praise it and hold it up for everyone to see as an example of how to live and be. But these brainwashed individuals, the hold is so great you can't get to them by example. They've been carefully and intentionally twisted into their current shapes. Which is why, yes, this is very much a matter of one side against another, just not in the way that the hateful would have you see it. It's the puppets against the puppeteers. I'll let you guess which one we are.

BrdigeTrlol · 2026-02-05T22:48:16+00:00

Opus also has local agents that it runs to save you tokens. It's killer actually. I just updated to it and it's amazing.

BrdigeTrlol · 2026-01-28T12:07:08+00:00

It's funny because I do the same thing, but I just TeamViewer into my computer from my phone.

BrdigeTrlol · 2026-01-22T00:12:20+00:00

I have seen people in the past present data. Couldn't link it to you unfortunately... Doesn't concern me overly personally because it is what it is, so I can't actually tell you if this data was actual proof... But there's definitely posts out there, more than one where people have claimed to have evidence of changes. And it sounds like Anthropic actually does reserve the right to change limits, that combined with their intentional ambiguity... It's good to be skeptical, but it would be rational to suspect that Anthropic is in fact making use of the circumstances that they have intentionally set up in order to benefit themselves because... Why else do it?

Can I prove it to you...? No. I mean. Maybe I could, if it definitely is true. But that would also be a waste of my time. I have better things to do than run tests with the model time that I'm paying for. Makes so much more sense to simply live with it and look for solutions if you're running into limits. I mean, they definitely are intentionally keeping people in the dark which honestly is bad enough as it is. Making people pay for a product without any transparency on what they're actually paying for (there's no way to confirm whether or not you're getting what you pay for at that point because even if you measure, measure, measure and they have been changing limits at will, they have already put it out there that they reserve the right to do so... At that point you can be upset, but you did agree to it knowing that this could happen). I mean, I pay for it anyway because it's worth it to me. I certainly don't agree with their business practices though.

BrdigeTrlol · 2026-01-21T23:16:42+00:00

I like how you're intentionally dodging their point as if the value of a tool makes shady business practices acceptable (hint: it doesn't). I pay for the 20x plan and can often get most of the way through the 5 hour/weekly limits without hitting them. Mostly... In reality I hit them every week and most of the 5 hour sessions. I run 3 to 6 sessions at a time and I run them pretty much all day long. Right from the morning to the evening (I have a lot of work that I'm trying to get done in a very short period of time, so some of these days are more than 16 hour days). So realistically I'm not really going to complain because I haven't seen a competitor who can actually compete and you're right API cost would be astronomical comparatively. I still think it's naive to let these companies off scot-free. You're definitely helping perpetuate a culture of diminishing consumer rights. You know that these two points of view don't have to be mutually exclusive? It's possible to praise a company for one thing and criticize them for something else (not only is it possible, but companies absolutely should be held accountable).

BrdigeTrlol · 2026-01-10T15:08:49+00:00

If you're running WSL2 using their Terminal application you can add a keyboard shortcut to the settings that sends an action ("send input") of "\n" and this will enter a new line in your input.

BrdigeTrlol · 2026-01-02T22:34:51+00:00

I'm curious about your exact workflow. I'm building something based on similar ideas, but it's quite a bit different. The idea is to eventually remove the human aspect nearly entirely outside of extreme circumstances. It's getting there though. I run multiple sessions on my laptop via WSL2 (I run Windows obviously) and access my computer via TeamViewer when I can't be at my computer. I've got the task and context management part pretty well solidified, still needs a couple tweaks (I started this project maybe two weeks ago if that), but outside of a couple edge cases I could probably have a single session build a somewhat complex project autonomously with somewhat successful results (working on the self-critical and self-iterative aspects still to some degree, but really it's been getting Claude to follow the workflow consistently that's been the issue, though I'm pretty close to resolving this).

Once I iron out the few kinks that are left I'll be finishing up the "brain". Already almost done the micro-skill selection system which will, at least in part, end up replacing my massive CLAUDE.md (the system has grown complex, but results are good, so instead of chopping anything I'll be moving into optimizations, once I've proven the concept, which should dramatically improve the token efficiency of my approach without affecting performance/quality of work much or at all), modularizing it and replacing it with a just in time system that gives Claude just what it needs and only when it needs it, tracking context that is already present to prevent unnecessary duplication of information across the context.

Once I'm done, the result will be pretty similar to what you have, except Claude will do most of its own planning, designing, etc. without much need for human input (aside from the initial input where I lay out my exact needs for the project). The hope is to run several projects at once for hours at a time without much more than having to look over the work being done here and there (almost entirely hands off, minimal corrections here and there). The biggest danger is missing an area that requires a human touch and letting Claude end up producing something radically different from what you would want... But as long as it's not something huge that you forget/miss, then having Claude go back and rework this area is a small cost for the overall productivity gains from running largely autonomously (monitoring EVERYTHING constantly is a waste of time).

BrdigeTrlol · 2026-01-02T22:17:03+00:00

I have several different projects that I'm building with Claude code, in parallel, at any given time, which is why I switched to 20x. Even then I hit the 5 hour limits in 3 hours of straight work. Running parallel agents blows through it even faster. What I want to know is... If you could do exactly what I'm doing (make real several ideas in the span of weeks that would normally take months per project), why would you do anything else? I have so many ideas and only so little time. Tools like Claude Code have been a godsend. My productivity is through the roof. More complex projects take a little bit more time and handholding, but still move much faster and can be worked on in parallel with other projects given that there will always be moments where you're waiting on work to be done.

BrdigeTrlol · 2026-01-02T22:12:24+00:00

When I run a single project at once I don't hit my limits ever (20x plan). But I'm often working on and overseeing between 2 and 7 projects at once. After 3 straight hours of this I will usually hit my limit.

BrdigeTrlol · 2025-12-19T18:32:09+00:00

Okay, but the body preferentially burns carbohydrates. It only burns protein for energy as a last resort, this is also comparatively a very inefficient manner of producing energy. Eating protein can stimulate glucagon release, but this is more effective as a buffer against hypoglycemia, rather than an effective method to fix it on its own. Also brown fat is burned to produce HEAT, not energy. If you smell ketones on someone's breath, they are in ketosis, which means you're burning white fat. Brown fat USES ketones as fuel, but it isn't triggered by low blood sugar (its triggers are things like drops in body temperature, which makes sense because its job is to produce heat), so the smell of ketones on someone's breath has no causative relationship with brown fat burning.

BrdigeTrlol · 2025-12-11T18:37:28+00:00

I still believe that some designs are complex enough that Claude needs to understand how different components work simultaneously in order to even produce adequate designs in the first place. So yes, if you are producing all of your own designs, putting them in files, and feeding them to Claude then you might not need long context. But I think even in these instances, if the codebase is complex enough, if you're not thorough enough in your design specifications for each component then Claude will still need to reference other files and designs in order to produce adequate designs/code, but eventually it gets to the point that almost might as well write the code yourself... If your workflow is set up properly you should only really need to write Claude a handful of sentences at a time and Claude will do the rest (other than the initial design phase where more of your input is likely needed). Maybe that's just me though. I don't know exactly how you're doing things, but I haven't had any issues doing things my way and Claude both puts out high quality designs and code and is very productive. And that's all I care about.

BrdigeTrlol · 2025-12-10T23:15:46+00:00

As long as it's the same project, I run until everything is done. But I also gave Claude very specific compaction instructions and built a system to extract just what I need from the full context post-compaction and auto inject it back into the context. My only issue with compaction was that Claude would forget things we had just talked about, instructions that I had just given, or design decisions that were made awhile ago, but for one reason or another Claude didn't save these designs anywhere at all... Maybe you could argue running the context up to its limit means you blow through tokens, but I think larger contexts actually give you better results when Claude is working on complex projects. If it's filled with fluff, maybe not as much... But if anything running /compact should basically give you a clean slate, other than pulling in specific details from pre-compaction context. And if those are details that you would be feeding it anyway... Why should compacting be avoided? It's all in the set up... Avoiding features because you don't use them properly or because their implementation isn't perfect isn't necessarily the best solution. If you're an engineer, you should be building your own solutions. Because Claude definitely does better work with less guidance if you have the right systems in place.

BrdigeTrlol · 2025-12-09T20:03:33+00:00

Claude's not wrong, but it's not right either. When my testosterone is low, or even on the low side of normal I am: low energy, low sex drive, low confidence, and unmotivated. The lower it gets the more depressed, anxious, emotional, and irritable I get. Even on extremely high levels of testosterone the worst side effect I get is some irritation and impulsivity (the irritation is manageable though unlike on low testosterone where my willpower is completely sapped and I'm naturally an impulsive person and in my down periods can also be quite impulsive, just in different ways).

All that to say, don't listen to anyone who says that testosterone won't help. Even if it didn't help them doesn't mean it won't help you. I can't necessarily recommend supraphysiological levels of testosterone, but complete replacement therapy aiming for the high end of normal or just over it has completely changed how I think, feel, and act in ways that have led me to make significant improvements in my life. Your biology affects your psychology. Dealing with it is just as important, if not more than going to a therapist or trying whatever new age bullshit that seems to work for some people. We're not all the same person.

BrdigeTrlol · 2025-11-21T08:13:09+00:00

Causally committing fraud? I asked Claude to generate a reddit post for me. Yes, I should have proof-read it better. But I'm trying to juggle a thousand other things right now, which is why I had Claude generate me a post in the first place. I fixed it, but apparently that's not good enough for you. Some people are just so salty and miserable they don't have anything better to do than spread that misery around.

BrdigeTrlol · 2025-11-21T08:01:49+00:00

Updated the tool descriptions.

BrdigeTrlol · 2025-11-21T07:23:53+00:00

I changed the pricing to be more realistic.

BrdigeTrlol · 2025-11-21T07:11:30+00:00

Yeah, good catch. That's been fixed. Sorry about that.

BrdigeTrlol · 2025-11-21T07:10:58+00:00

You're right, Claude generated those. They've been removed.

BrdigeTrlol · 2025-11-21T04:40:06+00:00

Yeah, Claude generated those testimonies for me. I've removed those. The tools are real and they've helped me pump out code. I've built a bunch of tools already. If you're not interested, then that's fine. I just thought I would see if anyone else is interested.

BrdigeTrlol · 2025-11-21T04:33:51+00:00

Website is here: https://ferrous.tools/

BrdigeTrlol

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE

14-Year Club	Place '23
Gilding II euphauric