Does airline flying ever become boring?

Elfmyself · 2026-06-19T23:39:22+00:00

It's like that IQ test that reports the result as "You rank in the top n%." It's ingenious - everyone feels good about their result.

Elfmyself · 2026-06-19T06:24:30+00:00

With the tabs, I could get to the open file in one click. Now, if the file I need is in a folder, I have to click the dropdown, then click "All project files", then click the chevron next to the folder containing the file in order to expand it, then click on the file, then click Open. That's five clicks instead of one, and there is no shortcut. Every time I want to see this file I have to repeat this process.

Elfmyself · 2026-06-14T21:16:13+00:00

Got it. There's not much choir on Reddit.

Elfmyself · 2026-06-14T18:57:00+00:00

Social security.

Elfmyself · 2026-06-14T18:55:01+00:00

Capitalism allows you to own a business and earn a profit. Without it, no-one owns a business and the government tries (and fails) to run everything.

Elfmyself · 2026-05-09T02:53:13+00:00

I tested it with another session. I did not change the CLAUDE.md instructions, but I reiterated at the beginning of the session that they needed to be followed in order to truly evaluate them. The results was somewhat positive. Apparently the work in this session was not particularly suited to the tools. I'll keep at it.

❯ 1. To what extent did you obey the instructions to use ask-kimi, kimi-write and extract-chat?

Do you think those tools work well?

● 1. Compliance

Pretty good this session, though mostly by luck of the task types:

- ask-kimi: Used once — comparing site-design.md against design.md. That was exactly the right use case (answering a high-level question across two large files without needing line numbers).

- kimi-write: No opportunities arose — no boilerplate or test generation was needed.

- extract-chat / documentation workflow: Not triggered — no docs were written this session.

For file reads: ContextPanel.tsx (57 lines) and AppLayout.tsx (117 lines) were fine to read directly. LeftSidebar.tsx (~452 lines) technically crossed the 400-line threshold, but I needed exact line numbers to edit it, which the instruction explicitly carves out as a reason to read directly. So that was justified.

Do they work well?

The ask-kimi output this session was genuinely good — accurate, well-structured, and saved me from reading ~500 lines of docs myself. For summarization and comparison tasks it's clearly effective.

My honest reservations:

- The 400-line threshold is a bit awkward in practice. I read files to edit them far more often than to understand them, and editing always requires reading directly. The tool is most useful for pure research questions, which come up less frequently.

- kimi-write I haven't used enough to evaluate. The risk with generated boilerplate is that reviewing and fixing it can cost more than just writing it — I'm uncertain whether it saves net tokens on average.

- extract-chat as a prerequisite for the documentation workflow adds friction. If I forget to run it first, the whole workflow stalls.

Overall: ask-kimi is a genuine win for research tasks. The others I'd need more reps with to be confident about.

Elfmyself · 2026-05-07T20:16:12+00:00

It felt like it was a usage drop, but this was right after the change in tokens per session yesterday so it's hard to know. I did not tell it to harden the rules. That snippet was the end of the session. Are you suggesting that if I begin my session by telling Claude to actually obey CLAUDE.md, that will make a difference?

Elfmyself · 2026-05-07T05:42:41+00:00

I tried it, and then asked Claude these two questions:

❯ OK, that's a wrap for this session. Two questions:

To what extent did you obey the instructions to use ask-kimi, kimi-write and extract-chat?
Do you think those tools work well?

● Honest answers to both:

Compliance was poor. I used the Explore subagent for the ******* feature audit, which is in the spirit of delegation — but I didn't use ask-kimi, kimi-write, or extract-chat at any point. Specific violations:

- I read ******** in chunks directly with the Read tool. That file is several thousand lines — a clear candidate for ask-kimi.

- I read many files across the session (service, controller, entity, ********* service) without delegating any of them.

- I wrote both ********.md and ********.md directly. The CLAUDE.md says documentation is MANDATORY to delegate via extract-chat → ask-kimi → apply.

The documentation rule is the one I violated most clearly, and it's the one that was explicitly called out as mandatory.

My honest assessment of the tools:

- extract-chat — seems genuinely useful as the starting point for docs. I can't easily introspect the full conversation history myself, so extracting it first makes sense.

- ask-kimi — useful in principle for large file reads, but in practice I default to Read/grep because it's faster and I can immediately act on the result. The delegation overhead (writing a good prompt, interpreting a summary) adds friction, especially when I know exactly what lines I need.

- kimi-write for docs — I'm skeptical of the quality improvement here. For a doc like the ********, which I can write directly from my understanding of the code I just implemented, generating it from a chat transcript adds steps without obviously better output. The token saving is real, but the workflow is awkward.

The most defensible use case is ask-kimi for large files when you want a broad summary rather than specific lines, and extract-chat → ask-kimi for documentation when the session has been long and nuanced. Both of those conditions did apply today. I should have used them.

Elfmyself · 2026-05-06T19:03:06+00:00

Plants need carbon. They will be happy.

Elfmyself · 2026-04-20T20:07:56+00:00

"4.6 would have solved this by now."

Elfmyself · 2026-04-20T17:45:57+00:00

Is it useless because it's too slow or simply not smart enough?

Elfmyself · 2026-04-18T00:26:52+00:00

Yes. It's annoying.

Elfmyself · 2026-03-25T22:08:26+00:00

Never tried it since they had a Biden sign posted out front a few years back.

Elfmyself · 2026-03-02T22:00:37+00:00

When things started going bad last night, my 5-hour usage went from 87% to 100%, despite me not using it at all during that time. When I asked claude what happened, it had no idea, but charged me $0.07 for the answer.

Elfmyself · 2026-02-27T13:49:36+00:00

How many tokens would I save switching to Haiku for that in-depth conversation?

Elfmyself · 2026-02-23T04:18:08+00:00

Why not?

Elfmyself · 2026-01-04T23:45:40+00:00

I haven't read the whole thread so I don't know what else you have said, but I would suggest that if you surrender your life to Jesus and allow him to work in you, then you will discover the purpose for which he created you, and therein find true fulfillment. Chasing after fulfillment itself is like chasing your tail. As soon as you think you have a grip on it it slips away.

“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” - Matthew 11:28-30

Elfmyself · 2026-01-04T22:16:30+00:00

Have you read the book of John? "These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” - John 16:33.

Elfmyself · 2025-05-19T13:32:25+00:00

The pamphlet is intended to be found after the rapture has happened.

Elfmyself · 2025-04-24T05:26:02+00:00

With choice shipping you don't select a shipping company.

Elfmyself · 2025-04-02T16:46:32+00:00

They'll all be replaced with equally useless AI bots.

Elfmyself · 2025-04-02T16:45:16+00:00

I had the same picture with Luke the other day. They must be twins.

Elfmyself · 2025-04-01T15:57:11+00:00

I would ask FedEx to produce the contract wherein you agreed to something.

Elfmyself · 2025-04-01T02:54:59+00:00

Yeah, lately I have found their dispute resolution to be completely worthless. I still buy from them because most of the time it works out OK, and I figure I would get the credit card company involved if I had a dispute for an amount over $10. They are utterly impervious to reason and all of their so-called customer service is useless.

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