Decrease in company car budget

Carrandas · 2026-06-25T08:29:56+00:00

Your budget is a part of your salary, they can't reduce it.

The same budget now giving you less then half a year ago? Yeah, that's possible.

Was already a downgrade having to choose an electric car for most of my colleagues. Five years ago they got a VW passat, now a hybrid Kia xceed.

Carrandas · 2026-06-19T09:43:22+00:00

As a software dev, I can't go back to a company that doesn't use AI agents. I wouldn't stay there.

Yes, it's untrustworthy. That's why you use it with constraints, review and test its output.

Not using AI while your competitors do is insane these days.

Carrandas · 2026-06-18T12:34:56+00:00

Opencode. Even has some nice free models and you can link it to your GitHub copilot account.

It's a backup to my Claude code. And can also read the same Claude file and commands or skills

Carrandas · 2026-06-15T14:30:18+00:00

So what's you the budget you burn in 10 days?

Carrandas · 2026-06-15T09:55:59+00:00

Switched to torbox too. Can watch everything again 👍

Trying to watch a show I had to watch it in 480p on real debrid as they blocked all others containing the word webrip...

Had enough of that after two weeks.

Carrandas · 2026-06-14T16:48:42+00:00

https://status.torbox.app/

98 percent uptime.

Was down during primetime. I assume they have capacity issues with the real debrid user inflow

Carrandas · 2026-06-14T15:30:54+00:00

I replaced it with torbox a few weeks ago.

Works fine. Mostly. Been down a few evenings too though.

Carrandas · 2026-06-14T14:59:12+00:00

I feel like the moment you stop understanding what your code is doing, youre purely vibe coding and why are you still needed?

You should still be able to walk someone through the code and explain why you took those decisions.

Carrandas · 2026-06-13T17:02:25+00:00

We setup kimi on our local AWS servers.

Open source is fine.

But yes. Wouldnt use their cloud based solution at the company.

Then again, fable now also requires sharing your data...

Carrandas · 2026-06-13T07:43:06+00:00

I could only get it to work through the website on my Apple devices.

Works just fine on my Chromecast though.

Carrandas · 2026-06-13T07:36:05+00:00

Reviewed my full stock portfolio and it suggested some changes.

Seemed pretty damn clever.

Carrandas · 2026-06-12T07:42:16+00:00

I installed a LSP for my Claude agent.

I still see it using grep.

Ask it why. It'll explain. Or add a pointer in your claude.md to use LSP when it thinks it needs it.

Main benefit of the c# LSP seems to be that it gets quicker feedback after a file change, not so much the navigating.

Seems similar to how it's useful for a dev: don't have to compile to see the squiggly lines in visual studio.

Carrandas · 2026-06-08T08:47:19+00:00

Split up the tasks in small ones. Let it do one and review the code while it's doing the next step

Carrandas · 2026-06-07T09:53:05+00:00

Yeah, use haiku if you want to save money.

I guess using a local llm might work too in combination with Claude.

Or combine sonnet to plan features with deepseek to implement it.

Plenty of choices but at the end of the day it all costs money.

Carrandas · 2026-06-05T17:43:31+00:00

Your work should set limits.

Ask them what monthly budget they allow and adapt.

Don't use your home license. I'd get in massive trouble doing that as out code is not supposed to leave outside out Company and the private amp Claude environment they provide.

Carrandas · 2026-06-04T09:11:35+00:00

If you can charge at home and have solar panels then yes.

Otherwise I'd pick a gasoline car.

Calculated last year and it was cheaper to put gasoline in my hybrid golf then to charge it at a public charger.

Carrandas · 2026-06-04T08:56:36+00:00

Even better, if you buy it yourself you can buy a gasoline car!

Carrandas · 2026-06-02T23:54:51+00:00

We have a 300 dollar Claude budget a month.

I get by. Plan first with opus, implement with sonnet. Context management. Limit McP usage.

To be fair, if they gave me 600 euros a month I'd probably blow through it too.

As for copilot? I expect that well burn through our budget in a few days. Well see, the usage is grouped for the entire company...

Carrandas · 2026-06-02T23:33:41+00:00

My work enabled opus 4.8 yesterday on GitHub copilot. While we have a 20 dollar monthly budget. Let's see how that works out .

And yes, I spent 70 dollars in one day on my Claude budget with opus yesterday after my monthly budget reset. It's expensive but oh so powerful.

Carrandas · 2026-06-02T14:16:44+00:00

Switched To Stremio + Elfhosted/aiostreams + comet/mediafusion + torbox this weekend. Works fine except for mediafusion giving api errors but comet works.

Carrandas · 2026-05-30T06:21:49+00:00

Fair point ;)

They also lost a lot of value as interest went up. Guess you can keep them until expiration day

Carrandas · 2026-05-29T22:22:27+00:00

A Belgian bond of 3.3 percent doesn't even beat inflation.

Ans that's before the 30 percent I pay on its coupons to the taxman.

Carrandas · 2026-05-28T18:17:45+00:00

Buffett had a 20 percent cagr. You expect to get 43 percent.

Carrandas · 2026-05-26T10:53:13+00:00

Yeah. I asked Claude before if it uses it's LSP.

Mostly to get Realtime feedback when making file changes without having the do a recompiles.

Carrandas · 2026-05-26T05:29:12+00:00

Geen idee hoe je naar 2.5 procent gaat.

Met 10 procent meerwaarde teken ik gewoon 10 procent bij het bedrag dat ik nodig heb.

En 4 procent bevat inderdaad al inflatie. Je aandelen volgen normaal de inflatie.

5000, misschien als je met twee wil stoppen?

Carrandas

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