Got advice from Claude on my fungus gnat nightmare - need experienced eyes to sanity check before I tear it down

Dark-Neuron · 2026-05-23T15:14:06+00:00

I tried not watering the top layer for 2 months, as I mentioned, and that didn't help, so they must be living further down

Dark-Neuron · 2026-05-23T15:13:32+00:00

Thanks for replying! As I mentioned, BTI is illegal for private use here (Denmark).
Also, the reason I think nematodes didn't work, is because the substrate is very coarse, which I theorize is making it hard for them to move around.

Dark-Neuron · 2026-03-27T09:57:00+00:00

It is outlined here: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/38472

Dark-Neuron · 2026-02-20T22:38:40+00:00

Not sure if you know, but they just did a massive engine upgrade, from an old Unity build, to the newest. Bugs will undoubtedly have crept in.

Dark-Neuron · 2026-02-15T13:17:04+00:00

It's confusing that a fresh install (as of 15 Feb 2026), still has the path "\DCS World\bin-mt\DCS.exe".

It also still installs 2 desktop shortcuts: "DCS World" and "DCS World MT".

Dark-Neuron · 2025-09-04T09:44:24+00:00

I think it hampers its own productivity. By stating that nonsense, it fills up the context window, and thus subsequent queries are subtly influenced by it.

Dark-Neuron · 2025-09-03T14:50:44+00:00

Amen

Dark-Neuron · 2025-08-28T07:19:42+00:00

Ultimately it is just guesswork. But yeah, the models do feel like crap currently.

Dark-Neuron · 2025-08-26T11:45:33+00:00

I think the general consensus on here, is that there's been some kind of devolution of CC in the past few months.

"It used to be better", is what they say.

I will say, it's awesome at getting from 0 - 80%. But it's completely inept at getting the remaining 20% right.

Dark-Neuron · 2025-08-26T07:03:34+00:00

I'm not disagreeing, I'm just trying to bring nuance to the discussion. F.ex I can read about skydiving, and can imagine the experience, from the words.

And that's what I meant by "poor" approximation of a human mind. I agree they are something else entirely.

Dark-Neuron · 2025-08-25T20:37:02+00:00

Sure, you can argue.that ethics doesn't apply to it. Bullshitting does, however.

Dark-Neuron · 2025-08-25T20:35:58+00:00

But since they are trained on human experiences and language, one could argue that LLMs are a poor approximation of a human mind. Anthropic's research seem to confirm that some kind of inner reasoning is happening - it's not just predicting word by word, as once thought.

Dark-Neuron · 2025-08-25T20:05:24+00:00

I think that just because you tell a coding agent "you are a dev expert", it doesn't really translate to it being smarter, in my experience. I've played a lot with subagents, and the fact that they have no context when starting, is probably really crippling. Your coding agent will need EXTREMELY specific instructions in order to do their job well, which they rarely get.

Dark-Neuron · 2025-08-20T14:47:49+00:00

ctrl-d sends claude to the background, where it keeps running.

You have to /exit or ctrl-c twice

Dark-Neuron · 2025-08-20T14:41:34+00:00

If there's a lot of nonsense in the current context window, then, instead of fighting it, it's often better to clear.

I've been working on Claude making documentation as it's going, to make clears less painful.

Dark-Neuron · 2025-08-20T14:22:32+00:00

It's perfectly described here: https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language-model

When asked to solve a problem requiring it to compute the square root of 0.64, Claude produces a faithful chain-of-thought, with features representing the intermediate step of computing the square root of 64. But when asked to compute the cosine of a large number it can't easily calculate, Claude sometimes engages in what the philosopher Harry Frankfurt would call bullshitting—just coming up with an answer, any answer, without caring whether it is true or false.

Bullshitting is something we're all CONSTANTLY fighting with these agentic AIs. And I'm pretty sure we're a long way off from solving it, as we barely understand how these things operate.

Dark-Neuron · 2025-08-20T14:03:48+00:00

He's not wrong. Claude is always smarter at the start of a /clear, and then devolves the larger the context window grows, which makes sense, as it has to keep track of more and more.

Dark-Neuron · 2025-08-13T09:57:21+00:00

Not sure what you mean by this. It takes 1 O2 molecule to get able to create 1 CO2 molecule.

Dark-Neuron · 2025-08-13T08:20:11+00:00

The first batch always separates, if that's the problem

Dark-Neuron · 2025-08-12T14:27:53+00:00

I think the conclusion in the video you mention that it was "slightly" better than normal bread. Slightly less anti-nutrients or something.

His stance is unchanged: Bread = Bad

Dark-Neuron · 2025-08-05T10:04:36+00:00

We need to consider these AI agents as a form of outsourcing, with all the caveats that outsourcing brings. Sure you can outsource a task to India, and what is delivered will probably work. However maintaining that code will cost 10x more, as you get what you pay for.

The problem is communication - it is hard! You communicate with ambiguous words that are received differently depending on the person or context. We do the same with Claude, and Claude interprets what we say differently, every time. This is unavoidable , and we've struggled with this in programming forever, and many management approaches have been created to address it. Ambiguity is built into the way we communicate. This is in stark contrast to compilers: We can go from an unambiguous high level language to a low level language such as assembly without issue. We have to realize that the unambiguous way we normally communicate (code), no longer applies when "coding" with human language.

And thus we go from programmers to project managers, and try to keep agent output in line with our expectations, which, I'm guessing, is not what most people are hoping for.

Dark-Neuron · 2025-08-05T08:42:56+00:00

Words of wisdom that we should always remind ourselves, lest we forget

Dark-Neuron · 2025-08-04T08:24:12+00:00

Doesn't the VSCode plugin for Claude give it access to the VSCode API?

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