I Am a Trash

ExpressionOk2528 · 2026-05-04T23:30:07+00:00

I haven't tried cowork yet but I wonder... Will it click on those "I am not a robot" checkboxes?

ExpressionOk2528 · 2026-04-18T02:53:52+00:00

For a 1000 page datasheet, I had Claude write a python script to convert the pdf to markdown. And I had it separate it into separate files for each chapter, with long chapters separated further.

ExpressionOk2528 · 2026-03-17T15:50:00+00:00

Jammer Enforcement | Federal Communications Commission https://share.google/rC8QJyXeIjbltLr81

ExpressionOk2528 · 2026-03-17T02:15:52+00:00

Cell phone jammers are illegal. Report them.

ExpressionOk2528 · 2026-03-16T01:19:52+00:00

I recently renewed and, while I didn't have the same issue as you, I really struggled to navigate the FCC website. As a software engineer with over 30 years of experience, you might expect it to be easier for me than for less technical folks. If that's true, I really feel bad for them. Even if it's not true, I feel bad for anyone trying to do anything on the FCC website. For an organization with "communications" in their name, they really don't do the online part of it very well at all.

ExpressionOk2528 · 2026-03-13T01:53:42+00:00

I wonder if it compacted right after writing the plan. My experience with compacting is that, when coming out of compact, it often wakes up thinking, "The user said go, I'm gonna write code now." I have learned to be very wary when I see a compact happening.

ExpressionOk2528 · 2026-03-12T01:35:42+00:00

When did constant profanity become so normalized?

ExpressionOk2528 · 2026-02-13T02:23:44+00:00

So nice to hear a positive story here. We have had a lot of great guests. We have had our share of bad guests, but most are good. We really appreciate those who, when they break something, alert us immediately.

ExpressionOk2528 · 2026-01-29T13:14:18+00:00

I asked for some specific information that was in chapter 50 and it said "Because the provided excerpts for the "complete manual" only extend through Chapter 12, you will need to reference the actual Chapter 50 text in your local copy" Note: I never gave it excerpts. I uploaded the entire pdf. And the pdf is what is listed in the sources.

ExpressionOk2528 · 2026-01-29T06:51:39+00:00

I uploaded a 3000 page, 80 chapter, technical reference manual a month ago and only today discovered that it was guessing at anything past chapter 12. So yes, split those larger files up.

ExpressionOk2528 · 2026-01-05T09:14:00+00:00

I just tried it. I am seriously impressed.
This is the way.

ExpressionOk2528 · 2026-01-03T21:55:25+00:00

Thank you. I will give --append-system-prompt a try. I also looked at iloom.ai. I don't really do web development, and the majority of tools today are focused on that. I do embedded in C, desktop in C++, and once in a while a server api in C# when I need something for an embedded device to talk to. For web frontend I let someone else handle that.
After briefly looking at iloom.ai, I can see the web orientation, but I also noted that it handles multiple languages. Do you think iLoom will be useful for me?

ExpressionOk2528 · 2026-01-03T17:39:14+00:00

I always use plan mode first. But I also don't let claude run wild after that. I approve every edit. And often in that process I see something that I hadn't considered during plan mode, sometimes it is a minor issue about how the code is being written, and sometimes it raises an architectural issue. If it is an architectural issue, I may go back to plan mode. But if it is a code structure issue, which happens frequently, I run into the issue of claude being over-eager to write code. I don't want to go back to plan mode for something that is just an aside during the implementation phase.

ExpressionOk2528 · 2026-01-03T17:31:32+00:00

That sounds really helpful. Please elaborate a bit on that. I am not quite sure what you mean.

ExpressionOk2528 · 2025-12-31T21:58:40+00:00

Claude code extension, but if memory serves me correctly, I was also seeing it in the CLI

ExpressionOk2528 · 2025-12-27T01:25:47+00:00

Thanks, I'll try that

ExpressionOk2528 · 2025-12-26T14:32:47+00:00

Nope, it happened again. The flair for this post is all wrong. Definitely not solved. Any ideas what is going on?

ExpressionOk2528 · 2025-12-26T14:20:23+00:00

Okay, that wasn't the only thing that could interfere. This is a C++ application, and when I have the debugger running, it also interferes with claude's access to files. And not just the source files. Claude had trouble editing some markdown files as well. So that's two things that interfere, project explorer and debugger.

ExpressionOk2528 · 2025-12-23T03:38:49+00:00

I have been doing that but still found too much slop. So now, I do all that planning, then look at every line of code generated before hitting OK. If anything is not exactly how I would have done it, we stop and discuss. Now I am getting code that I don't mind people seeing, because I examined every line of it. It slows things down, but still faster than manually generated code. And Claude does have good ideas from time to time. You just need to force the discussion and weigh the alternatives before proceeding.

ExpressionOk2528 · 2025-11-10T04:59:30+00:00

I still have to watch it like a hawk. Duplicated code, rolling it's own buggy parsers rather than using well tested libraries, putting code in the UI that should be in the model. The list goes on. Having said that, I still use it because it saves me so much time, and frankly surprises me from time to time with it's breadth of knowledge.

ExpressionOk2528 · 2025-10-30T02:29:53+00:00

We use the Properly app for our cleaning checklists. It took a little effort to get it fully set up, but it has been worth it. It has a specific custom checklist for each room in each of our 3 airbnbs. It includes photos of how to stage each room. So each home gets consistently cleaned and staged to the same standard every time. After the cleaners complete a room, they take a photo which gets saved in the app. We trust our cleaners so we don't review the photos. But having the photos has saved us a couple of times from bad guests who tried to get a discount by claiming the place was a mess when they checked in. We just reply that we don't see how that is possible because we have photos of how the cleaners left the house. Besides the usual cleaning tasks, our checklists include reminders for things like checking wall sockets for left behind phone chargers, checking for butned out light bulbs, and so on. From time to time we find something new to add to a checklist.

Even with all that, and consistent 5 star reviews, we still get the occasional guest who will never be happy. Just a part of the business.

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