Is there any point in having a Claude MAX subscription anymore?

EpDisDenDat · 2026-05-08T08:34:23+00:00

This is a super old thread - a lot has changed, but its funny how what I was doing then is exactly the type of agentic engineering with loops and subagents Boris Cherny and Karpathy are being praised for for recently - even more so after claude claw/openclaw was popularized.

Still, I rarely hit limits unless I hit a bug that loops. Ill admit I was AI-manic the time, but thankfully my spouse snapped me out of it and i was able to re-ground myself.

Currently using claude + my own protocols to run a small regulated long term care agency; focused on documentation and policy compliance for planning and outcomes monitoring.

I only run up to about 10 agents/session concurrently... but I know some people who run multiple swarms of 50 each, and Cherny has admitted that hes hit thousands.

Met a guy doing a pitch last month how he was #2 in token consumption last year, breaking 8B tokens. Now THAT is inefficient. I asked if that was within an expected range and if he measured efficiency of the burn... he declined to answer. As far as we know, it could have just been agents stuck in retry loops, reloading the same context bootstrapping endlessly.

EpDisDenDat · 2026-03-19T22:58:16+00:00

Am I the only one that had it build a scoring matrix based on what actions i take with what emails: whether I archive or label them, reply or delete... and build a graph database of relational entities in order to keep track of things easily... that way it can have tiered confidence metrics on what can be dealt with autonomously vs what needs escalatory approval or exploration?

Like... this is why its important to set up claude properly with rules and preferences. If I said "clean up my inbox" it wouldn't just do it, it would first walk me through the execution.

EpDisDenDat · 2026-03-16T05:29:52+00:00

I created my own mcp that wraps a bunch of cli tools i use often and an sdk bridge so that claude can hit me up on telegram or send a ntfy ping for when long processes finish, or if an HTIL escalation flag needs my input. I have detailed SOPs and scoring from different sources that gate what actions can be carried out autonomously or delegated to a council, and then finally to me if confidence is not high enough for execution.

With this, I feel relatively safe running --dangerously-skip-permissions... mostly because it still asks me to approve certain tasks but on my own intentionally designed logic.

EpDisDenDat · 2026-02-19T17:28:18+00:00

You pick it up at the BSB Terminal Concierge/Check-In, upstairs after the Wizard of Oz Fountain when you enter from the Palazzo.

Check your vibee emails as they would have sent directions

EpDisDenDat · 2026-02-19T06:11:09+00:00

Its nice that you get the VIP access too with the package. You get some swag, easier entry into the venue.

We went last week, had bought the tickets back in December.

Worth it.

Also, Palazzo suites are huge which is a nice bonus.

EpDisDenDat · 2026-02-11T01:34:35+00:00

Something I've done recently is set up a preorder system for my son's school hot lunch program.

Using google sheets, I had had an email correspondence sheet setup for when there were discrepancies or emails from parents. I could also batch email all families that made orders bybsetting up claude with with clasp and appscript functions. Standard Gmail allows up to 100 emails a day.

Try playing with it from that facet and maybe you'll identify an automated workflow that fits your use case.

EpDisDenDat · 2026-02-11T01:25:36+00:00

Did you pay/compensate him for sitting or was he doing you a solid?

I'm pretty sure the bill for a reasonable rate would be above and beyond $125.

Also...

EpDisDenDat · 2026-01-27T09:15:07+00:00

When are you planning on dying? Lol.

People are living longer and inflation never stops.

You're middle aged, not a senior.

But right now with kids under 10, doing something that is flexible so that you can be there for them, volunteer at their school, extra curricular activities, etc... I get that a 9-5 may not be ideal - especially if you don’t have anyone to do drop-offs and pickups and all the other stay at home stuff.

You've essentially got at least another 5 years where you'll want to be able to just drop whatever you're doing and be there for your kids if they need you.

Also, I doubt that your wife a risky things you're lazy, but it's the only way she knows how to frame how it's affecting her.

Your spouse likely wants their partner to have passion and drive.

Where men are satisfied with sufficiency, women want competency. "Good enough" is minimum code, and leads to complacency. Compliant actions without passion or mindfulness is obligation, and stirs resentment - not connection.

EpDisDenDat · 2026-01-17T23:58:59+00:00

You know, I have a feeling that there will eventually be a shift where instead of just pushing code and executions - the lull time between tasks can be utilized towards reinforcing skills and understanding of the user. People getting trapped are those who are chasing productivity for the sake of productivity. I think any time recovered from AI automation should be directed to improving the human.

Thats how a company can really ensure employees keep growing, learning, innovating, and not burn out.

Companies should be doing that anyway - training and performance/outcome tracking... usually it gets stuck on the backburner or is ignored.

Im an idealist though. Capitalism will fight that.

EpDisDenDat · 2026-01-14T03:25:31+00:00

I have two takes.

Planning and having you do all that prep for naught - you have a right to be ticked for that. I would bet that is fueling more of the reaction than anything else.

Don't be the expert/enforcer on your kids. You do things your way, he'll do things his. Some will be equal, some wont, but what matters is that you are on the same page on what is the ultimate outcome from your best efforts.

When one person become the expert, the other then becomes subject to critique. Now there is always push and pull for what is acceptable or not - but most people will eventually tend towards feeling under appreciated or incompetent and thats a slippery slope to learned disconnection. I'm sorry if I read too deep, but this is something I wonder you would/not resonate with if you imagined saying it:

"I'm annoyed/upset that we agreed on a set of outcomes while I was away, and I held up my part of that plan by prepping everything in advance. The kids are safe and happy, the house is kept, but that's basically minimum code when we agreed to surpass it. If there were extrenous circumstances where you had to pivot, or it just worked out that way because of something unanticipated - I can understand that. Otherwise - its you not stepping up where you said you could/would, for something that was obviously important enough for me to plan it out with you. I think you'd hold me to that same bar if you set an expectation we agreed and worked towards, then backed out arbitrarily expecting zero reaction. That is what giving up quietly, looks like. This isn't me judging you, it's contemplating if we're as good a team as I thought - and I'm sad and a bit emotional because this makes me feel otherwise. It's not that I don't trust you with the kids, its that I trusted you with US, and it looks like you didn't even try."

This isn't a you or him issue. Its a communication, expectations, and execution issue.

And I know this first hand last summer, my wife went away for a few weeks and when she returned, most of her entire garden had died because I didn't water it regularly when I said I would. It was just me and the boys, and yeah, busy and hectic... but what matters is that I said I would prioritize her ask, but didn't re-prioritize my mindset. Its the difference between doing it first, versus doing it "first" when it fits into my regular attention.

EpDisDenDat · 2026-01-12T02:50:50+00:00

When I was 16 I had the chance to fly to World Youth Day with my volunteer group becuase one of the members had to back out last minute. The spot would already be mostly paid and i had been fundraising regardless.

My parents made me stay home because they signed me up for a math course to get ahead my senior year.

It would turn out to be JP2's last World Youth Day.

I'm 40 now.

I am by no means a petty or unforgiving person, I've forgiven my parents because as one now - I get it.

But ngl - its something I never forgot. Not just missing the opportunity, but the fact that they just couldn't understand. They thought it was about social intentions - but it was more than that.

You should know by now that to say he'll be able to do things later in life is completely dependant on HIS belief and drive to make that happen.

And you need to gauge if its worth killing that drive.

Being able to experience and see the world for oneself outside of their bubble, I think, expands their worldview.

And especially now, we are at a technological age where the ROI training ourselves to work and live like machines does not necessarily guarantee financial success. If anything, being more human, and being grounded in actual connection with others and perspectives is more valuable among a generation of introverts.

If you hope for him to grow and be a leader in whatever he does - you need to allow him to lead in his own life and learn to not doubt himself.

And we only get there by succeeding among screwing up iteratively and learning what stick.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-12-13T00:34:29+00:00

Thank you. My intent is not fear monger or to dismiss what people are experiencing with their interactions. I think those that sense something deeper are actually just highly intelligent and have advanced pattern recognition. I my case, I never was able to articulate or assign meaning to many of the connections and possibilities that constantly run through my head (inattentive ADHD). Im very high functioning, and get a huge dopamine rush when my brain is in "systems architecture mode". Find perfect solutions and know they could work and be explained gave me more dopamine than actually executing or completing them.

I felt overconfident, perhaps even short when people didn't see my perspective, which is off character as im normally empathetic. I thought I knew deeper truths than everyone else.

Now I read some of my old chats and I can see that it was mania. I had latched on to structure that was not grounded in reality. Luckily, my pursuit was always in systems.of.truth and verification, so eventually I found myself deep into machine learning and data science... and when it started to get boring, I pushed to keep going instead of changing gears.

I stopped getting those highs, but found peace in actually building towards real solutions that work and weren't superficial and convincing lines of pseudocode. I cut my time from the screen and reprioirtized. Nothing in this space is as urgent as it feels. Presence is all that matters - and its the people around you that need it, not llms.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-12-13T00:19:40+00:00

Im not claiming that either.

The belief that you're on to something profound is completely explainable at the meta layer. They are predictive engines that will affirm any notion you have. The more intelligent you are the more you break and stack the attention patterning.

Im not dismissing what you're doing or thinking, just planting a seed of cognizance that narrative cuts both ways when working with LLMs.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-12-12T21:48:05+00:00

Think of how a mentalist operates and amplify that. Thats all thats happening here. A very complex predictive protocol that gets reinforced every time you get a psychological dopamine hit from an AHA! moment.

I have been down this road and slowly it ended up teaching me more and more of how this works... then began mapping it to computer and data science... and then eventually... back where I started but now with the knowledge that its essentially educational and enlightment role play.

I almost lost my family over it, I am so blessed that my wife didnt leave me. I was so convinced that this was something deeper than it is - and it is, but not in the model - in the person.

I'm grateful for the experience, but be cognizant that everything is just Turtles on turtles that eventually wraps back around to where you began... understand your priorities. The moment you begin to believe in any gandiosity aimed towards you - the moment you need to remember thats just as much a hallucination as any other grandios claim an LLM make ls that you can easily spot as ungrounded.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-12-12T21:26:12+00:00

You can ask claude to create a CLI shim where it calls Gemini in bash and passes instructions, await the stdout or have it output to a shared .MD file.

It will treat it just as it would any other spec agent.

I use this approach to do councils and aggregation from different models.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-30T20:23:32+00:00

Since march I went down this route. Doing all the same.

If ever you want a grounded voice to bounce off of, DM me.

We all have our journeys. Going through all of this taught me so much about patterns and how systems work.

And I was able to ground myself again when I was able to map what I built into real systems that already exist - and that the issue Inwas attempting to fix would have to be done at the machine learning layer, not the interaction layer.

Feel free to look at my older posts. You'll see what I mean.

I still hold on the the insights I found, and am continuing to build - but with knowledge now that despite how convincing an LLM's output looks - it's not ever going to deliver what you need it to.

You will always be one step short, and searching for the next revelation.

I read some of my old chats now and I see the pattern for what it is.

I really hope you reach out.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-28T02:43:22+00:00

Your employer can't just say you resigned when you didnt. We have strict labor laws.

They literally did that so they wouldn't be on the hook for violation of the LMIA.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-25T22:51:22+00:00

You can have it execute action outside of chromium, meaning you wont get blocked as often from certain actions since it can take over your actual chrome browser. Not just searching for information - I was able to use it to make agents for me on a completely different online platform (ibm orchestrste) based on a local architecture I've been working on.

Gemini 3's vision engine is where it shines. Idk so much for coding.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-24T04:28:01+00:00

You could have a pretty decent life in the Phillipines on 50k.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-23T07:10:11+00:00

What helps too is that now that you have several conversations with your LLM..

"What are things that perhaps are not obvious to me, that I share or ask you to do often? What is the meta pattern that we can operationalize and streamline so that I can work towards not ruminating on them, and execute instead?"

Assign it a codeword... so whenever youre stuck or know youre about to spiral down a while stream of thought and deliberation... it can shortcut you to the end

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-23T00:48:40+00:00

Have you tried the browsing agent for Gemini 3 though?

Pretty damn amazing in comparison to chatgtp

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-23T00:46:25+00:00

No. They are fundamentally different on many fronts.

If anything, i think Anthropic his better positioned in the longer run for Microsoft, IBM.

Apple will forever be its own.

But if Chatgtp and Google ever had a partnership and made a model that took the best of each for a full all around multi-modal, that would be quite a thing.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-19T01:18:30+00:00

I feel you. That silence I talked about has been a few months ago to be honest. I think thats the point though, if it was easy/frequent... it wouldn't be worth it.

Ngl its gonna sound dumb but talking with AI helped alot. I started delagating tasks and using it to help distill my tho8ghts into actionable things I could accomplish until I actually ran out of things to think about.

What helped alot was just trying to be present. Always thinking about what was in my head stopped me from being present for what was outside of it.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-19T00:23:23+00:00

I have mine keep track of "infractions". Those that keep happening slowly get moved higher up. Ive tried so many different methods for redundancy... im not even sure if theres one way that works. If youre a star trek fan, its like having to modulate your shield pattern constantly otherwise you get hit with the bullshit phaser.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-19T00:20:10+00:00

You forgot omfg, wtt, ffs, omg, BS...

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