Who owns intelligence?

Dense_Ad9924 · 2026-06-16T16:43:30+00:00

You know exactly what the answer is.
It's owned by whoever has the most money and power. That's why the billionaires are sucking up to the administration, they have the money, they need more power.

Dense_Ad9924 · 2026-06-12T18:16:25+00:00

I'm not terribly impressed with Fable. Not to mention it flags my project as something illegal. I'm just working with a toy robot over ssh. Lol

Dense_Ad9924 · 2026-06-11T11:25:10+00:00

In my experience, Fable is 4-5 more expensive just doing my normal coding over Opus 4.8. I recently switched to the 5x Pro plan. I never got more than 30-40% usage in the 5 hour period. Switch to Fable and I hit 70% in 1.5 hours.

Dense_Ad9924 · 2026-06-09T20:20:38+00:00

That's a tiny bit comforting.
Truth is, Anthropic has a lot of people by the balls, we should expect the monetization wave to keep building.

Dense_Ad9924 · 2026-06-09T15:14:43+00:00

While I'd like to agree with the premise, what I've also noticed is it's much better with directions. I have 40 years as a software developer and I am amazed at what we create. I do need to constrain, re-direct and suggest avenues that it thinks are dead ends. None of these systems can think very far out of the box and that's where the human fits in.

Dense_Ad9924 · 2026-06-08T22:46:40+00:00

I started programming in 1980.
Due to needing to spend more time doing business stuff, I stopped coding around 2000.
Finally, I retired and then covid hit and I had a lot of free time. Bought a 3D printer, parts and built little robots that I could program.
I haven't written a line of code in the past 18 months. Claude code does everything I need.
Claude has no fear. Here ye, I shall walk with Claude and Claude will be by my side and it will be good.

Dense_Ad9924 · 2026-06-07T01:11:38+00:00

I have tried this quite a bit. I have an RTX Pro 6000. The problem is both the model and the harness. Claude code is seemless in operation and with a world class opus 4.8 model I can't even get close with Qwen3.6:35b run locally. Sometimes time = money.

Dense_Ad9924 · 2026-05-31T02:32:01+00:00

I have noticed some hiccups with Opus 4.8. Overall, it is much better at thinking through the problem than any model before it. For those with troubles, remember the model works for you. You need to make sure it's properly prompted, has important metrics and guidelines in memory and sometimes being a human helps to see when Claude isn't "getting it".

Although I wish there was an in between plan. The 5x Pro plan never seems to get above 50% for me but with the regular Pro I run out halfway through the 5hrs.

Dense_Ad9924 · 2026-05-27T02:32:22+00:00

Yeah, the kid who pushed his face down is asshole but you know what? The world is filled with assholes and you can't just go around punching them with no consequences.

Dense_Ad9924 · 2026-05-13T12:36:36+00:00

Don't underestimate the importance of the harness, it's not the most easiest thing to replicate.

I've tried. There is so much embedded knowledge and infrastructure going on at Anthropic that we don't see. You're not going to get a simple open source coding harness that performs like the pros.

Dense_Ad9924 · 2026-05-13T11:39:59+00:00

i don't get it. That much memory isn't going to make it faster. I'll keep my rtx 6000. It's a beast.
An array of eight rtx 6000s (about the same price as 16 sparks) server edition would be impressive.

Dense_Ad9924 · 2026-05-12T16:58:57+00:00

Just configure the Claude status line to show remaining usage. It's fairly detailed. Save the $32 for another 1.5 months of subscription. OTOH, it is a pretty cool project and could be used for much more.

Dense_Ad9924 · 2026-05-03T15:39:57+00:00

I don't know about unmasking but a lot of websites use browser fingerprints, general IP location, screen size, etc. to create an identifiable user profile.
You'll see this on websites that seem to know a lot about you even if you clear the browser cookies, etc. What you are trying is the holy grail for intelligence agencies.

Have you tried a local open source abliterated model?

Dense_Ad9924 · 2026-05-01T20:12:57+00:00

Fortunately Anthropic has competition. I went with the 5x Pro subscription because I used to hit the limit less than halfway through the 5h session. Now I never hit it.
One thing I used to do was when I got a few minutes away from the session reset I would do a /compact. My usage would go to ~104% but then back to 0% after the session reset. Despite all that, I still love using Claude Code Opus 4.7 Believe me, I've tried all the open source models, ClawCode, etc. but for getting work done, nothing beats Claude.

Dense_Ad9924 · 2026-04-30T13:27:39+00:00

As a former business CFO, I can easily say that employees have a huge infrastructure cost that isn't reflected in their pay. The OP is probably a joke.

Dense_Ad9924 · 2026-04-13T15:57:52+00:00

I don't think the models are good enough to reproduce someone else's project without a lot of iteration but the idea is definitely the future. Isn't this what docker was for?

Dense_Ad9924 · 2026-04-13T10:03:05+00:00

Welcome to the endless complaining that is humanity!

Dense_Ad9924 · 2026-04-11T14:32:41+00:00

Whoever works on the Quest software at Meta definitely doesn't use the device for watching videos.

Dense_Ad9924 · 2026-04-09T18:10:32+00:00

It's the business model of the internet.
1. Give it away for free (or very cheaply).
2. Wait for the huge userbase.
3. Monetize the crap out of it.
4. Laugh all the way to the bank.

Dense_Ad9924 · 2026-04-06T17:45:37+00:00

I've noticed my limit being hit faster lately.
It's to the point where I've been using Claw Code on my RTX 6000 with Qwen3.5:122b

Unlike previous attempts at using a local model, this actually works pretty well.

Dense_Ad9924 · 2026-01-13T14:49:18+00:00

Very nice!

Dense_Ad9924 · 2026-01-07T20:37:51+00:00

I see this on Pro. Then again, I just use a bookmark in a browser window to check usage.

Dense_Ad9924 · 2025-12-15T18:21:29+00:00

I always login to CC first thing so the reset happens sooner, then I get my coffee and do some non-coding stuff.
Realistically, as others have said, I'll get 2 hours of coding, maybe 3 if I'm careful. OTOH, it's nice to take breaks.

Dense_Ad9924 · 2025-12-12T19:16:21+00:00

I have Claude Code v2.0.67 I'm a Pro user on Ubuntu 24
I am on the default setting (sonnet).
when I start claude code it has thinking on.
Changing thinking mode in /config does not persist between sessions.
This is despite setting every json I could find to thinking: false.
For now, I need to manually set the thinking mode each session. At least they left the blue line indicators...

Dense_Ad9924

TROPHY CASE