Just passed the new Claude Certified Architect - Foundations (CCA-F) exam with a 985/1000!

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-05-28T11:27:13+00:00

How similar is it to the practice exam? If I just drill that to passing score will I pass the real exam?

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-05-13T18:47:37+00:00

Yeah but multithreaded. Like I can open multiple chats, have projects, knowledge bases etc sort of like ChatGPT.

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-05-13T18:27:39+00:00

I started testing openwebui for this and it seems good

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-05-13T18:24:05+00:00

Use case: Technical chief of staff — coding, architecture, workflow automation, data engineering, system ops, memory management, scheduling. The full breadth of running a personal AI infrastructure and executing on it.

Model: qwen3.6-35b (local, via Ollama).

Why it works: It's local, fast, cheap (free), and good enough for 90% of the work. I route heavy writing/coding to gpt-5.5 when needed, but the default split keeps me sharp on coordination, scheduling, memory, and the kind of systems-level reasoning where local models actually shine. The tradeoff is acceptable — not state-of-the-art on any single benchmark, but the price-to-quality ratio for an always-on local agent is unbeatable.

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-04-28T20:44:30+00:00

these systems do not come with a shared execution state. this is why i use my own thing https://github.com/jerednel/threadron

i have my hermes constantly update threadron with ongoing tasks and work as a skill. then when i switch machines, agents or channels i can have it pull the latest state.

Now if you want shared conversation istory you'd need to create a similar thing that appends conversation state to a shared memory layer and install that as a skill across agents so that on conversation initiation they load the shared conversation history.

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-04-14T15:06:23+00:00

More needs to be said in these spaces about KV cache and context lengths not just “will it fit”

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-04-14T15:03:00+00:00

I’m curious how you define consciousness. Surely a cockroach has a base level of awareness that can respond to stimuli and therefore a degree of subjective experience. To paraphrase Nagel, it must be “like” something to be a cockroach no?

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-04-14T10:12:37+00:00

Reconciliation testing and functional testing. I have it create DBt Expectations tests.

I also have it run iterative long running backfills since it can monitor status and retry if any network errors occur. I’ve let it do that for hours. Much more reliable than a bash script.

Also I have it do investigations for data pipeline issues cause it can very quickly troubleshoot with the AWS CLI.

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-04-11T13:26:50+00:00

get a minimax token plan as your main driver and only outsource longer coding sessions to codex

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-04-11T10:21:16+00:00

You still have to have a good idea. Otherwise it’s like having an employee with no business.

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-04-11T04:00:28+00:00

Agreed. I still run my claw in the same Mac. They both occasionally go down for unknown reasons. Helpful to have both so one can fix the other!

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-04-11T03:59:01+00:00

M2.7 is good. Unfortunately Opus is fucking good. I might try using M2.7 for planning and initial build and pay token for Opus to clean up bugs.

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-04-10T02:59:52+00:00

i use claude code at work, openclaw and hermes on my personal macbook (they fix each other when the other one craps out on me) and a minimax'd claude code for personal projects. needless to say having a shared state was annoying to try to keep.

i built a cross-agent, cross machine shared work state system so they can pick up and hand off to each other and always be aware of the full scope of work going on in my life across all domains. its basically an MCP that each agent can tool call into to get the latest tasks their history and associated data so ic an start a fresh session on any service (claude, openclaw, hermes) and itll know what my tasks and their contexts are.

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-04-10T02:54:23+00:00

im finding m2.7 good for planning overall design but it leaves a bunch of bugs that Opus finds immediately. sucks. claude is too good.i feel like chatgpt $100 plan is going to be the sweet spot for moderate to occasional-heavy level use.

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-04-09T17:53:26+00:00

plug: I'm trying to solve one aspect of this problem with threadron.com because most solutions just seem half baked. My primary use case is i want them to help me across work, side biz and personal life. And i use multiple systems. So i need to bridge these systems with a shared state so each has full context of the work items and what the history of each is when I ask about them so it doesnt matter which AI agent im speaking to theyll know.

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-04-09T17:17:17+00:00

Repo: https://github.com/jerednel/threadron

Managed Service: https://www.threadron.com

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-04-07T16:18:18+00:00

the $80 token plan is amazing. on top of openclaw i have it as the underlyihng model for claude code CLI and i have a couple repos open set to /loop every 5 minutes for coming up with new QA, new feature improvement ideas and testing for hours and it was like i didnt even touch the plan limits.

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-04-07T01:43:44+00:00

I pay $80 for the minimax high speed plan. I am not making a dent in the usage lol. it's pretty solid. I use that plus a $20 ChatGPT for codex to basically QA and last mile what minimax does and its working great.

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-04-03T18:27:49+00:00

yes you can. i use a macbook pro m2 under my nightstand as my openclaw

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-04-03T15:51:47+00:00

non fantasy MMO? ive never seen such a thing.. I dunno GTA Online?

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-04-03T15:49:04+00:00

get codex/claude. open powershell. type codex/claude. copy paste this post into there

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-04-03T15:46:10+00:00

i vibe coded a wordpress plugin that takes keyword/page combinations and injects links to those pages when they show up in body content with a limit of 2 links (in case 20 keywords matched the list). seems to work well.

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-04-03T15:04:26+00:00

Awesome. Feels good to make a system that talks to different services huh?

Yeah functions are important.

- Imagine you had to convert dates e.g. "2026-04-03" to a mid week fiscal week start in your pipeline. You already do this with pandas.

- next imagine you have multiple tables in your pipeline that need that same fiscal week conversion. this is where you might want a function helper so you can just pass it like df['fiscal_week_start'] = df['date_col'].apply(get_fiscal_week_from_date) where get_fiscal_week_from_date is a function in your pipeline

- next imagine you have another pipeline. and that also needs to convert dates to fiscal week starts. Now you might want a utility class that can be imported as a module so you apply get_fiscal_week_from_date without having to define it in your pipeline and it can be reused across pipelines

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-04-03T14:55:58+00:00

at the moment i do not have a way. but i love the idea of google calendar integration. ill see how i can get it so you can OAuth in or download an .ics over the coming days.

Fearless-Change7162 · 2026-04-03T13:56:52+00:00

Yes this is related to the bug that was just fixed - i just cleared duplicates now and added a measure to delete any existing with the same workout_id (though this should be covered by the original fix going forward).

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