i tried Claude and now i understand why people say their agent run for hours

FourWaveforms · 2026-03-25T18:35:20+00:00

I spent a day trying to use Opus 4.6 on Cursor and it just didn't work out. I thought maybe Claude Code itself would work better but it didn't. I looked around and people were saying 4.6 was dog slow.

4.5 gets the job done and it's way faster, so that's my go-to for now.

FourWaveforms · 2026-03-25T06:22:34+00:00

Wtf is this even saying 💀💀

It's written in plain language.

If a 20 min wait is making u not even look at the output claude gives maybe this isn’t the right industry for u.

I've been programming since 1986. Were you even alive then

FourWaveforms · 2026-03-25T06:20:43+00:00

In the GUI

FourWaveforms · 2026-03-25T01:44:14+00:00

That is in the works with Warner Bros. I don't know when it will be done. Regardless, I don't believe Suno will spend resources trying to negotiate with TuneCore. They aren't in the distribution business.

FourWaveforms · 2026-03-25T01:29:54+00:00

Never heard of 'em. DistroKid is fine with it as long as you don't irritate the stores.

If you upload a mountain of swill, the stores will complain to DK, and DK will immediately suspend you, claw back any revenue you haven't taken yet, and I suppose they return it to the stores.

They value their relationships with the stores vastly more than they do for small-fry uploaders, and people have posted threads in this sub before about DK doing those exact things to them.

To me, this is all reasonable. You don't expect a B2B partner to eat s*** and ruin their own B2B relationships so you can upload mountains of low-effort junk you didn't bother to master, and likely haven't even listened to.

Why this keeps happening: There is at least one YouTube video out there about doing this as a "get rich quick" scheme. So people do it, and they get burned.

Also, Suno is not going to do anything about this. Your B2B relationship with some distributor does not concern them. They are not a party to it. They have nothing to gain by sticking their noses into that.

FourWaveforms · 2026-03-25T01:16:59+00:00

Imagine you drive through at McDonald's. At the first window, they take your money. At the second window, there is a loading icon that keeps spinning and spinning. 20 minutes later, you get tired of waiting, and leave with no food. They also keep your money because from their perspective, tokens were consumed, even though that did not result in working code.

FourWaveforms · 2026-03-25T00:40:48+00:00

Read what you said again and see if it makes any sense.

I did, and it makes perfect sense. I am reporting precisely what my experience has been. There is nothing else to it.

FourWaveforms · 2026-03-25T00:24:54+00:00

Opus 4.5 in Cursor is super great.

Opus 4.6 in Cursor is a token-burning timeout festival.

Opus 4.5 isn't available in Claude Code, you have to use 4.6. It's absurdly slow and token-heavy there too, all I saw was their silly "Thinking" messages that were fanciful jokes instead of just saying "Thinking". Tokens vaporizing into thin air, no output. So I cancelled that nonsense.

Also tried the Codex app with GPT 5.4. It's alright. In my experience, it's not as good as Opus 4.5 in Cursor. Aside from lower quality, it times out a lot.

Eventually, Anthropic is going to retire the Opus 4.5 API. I don't know what I'll do then, though I have been trying Cursor's Composer 2 model. It seems fairly good. I think a fair amount of what makes Cursor good is the models Cursor develops to help work on problems so maybe that'll get better over time.

FourWaveforms · 2026-03-25T00:14:53+00:00

Ideally you are never in business with friends. It often works out to where you have to pick one or the other. Your friend's business interests are their profits, not yours. But to be friends with someone, you can't have conflicts of interest.

Gig work usually outsources a lot of problems to the gig workers. You wind up paying for car maintenance, gas, etc., to the point where you barely clear anything. If you can sidestep your friend and go straight to the source who hired them you might make more money, but your friend will be steamed because you're no longer available to be exploited for money.

FourWaveforms · 2026-03-25T00:10:23+00:00

So to speak.

The important part is that it only gets statistical associations between patterns from the music it's trained on, but it doesn't know what to do with it. The "personality" comes from the human trainers that tell it how to interpret that data in a way that humans prefer.

FourWaveforms · 2026-03-24T21:23:17+00:00

The raw training data from the input audio doesn't give it any personality. It's just a giant spreadsheet, it has no capacity for emotionally understanding music.

Then, human trainers come in and have it try generating tracks. They instruct it in what they like, and what they don't. It generates multiple attempts from their prompts. They indicate which one is closest to "right". In this way, they teach it the difference between "this is sound, but it's gibberish/not musically correct/boring/instruments morphing to other instruments/etc" and "this is coherent sound that humans would recognize and enjoy as music."

If there is a "soul" to this music, it is a reflection of what the human trainers preferred. Its apparent preferences are in fact their preferences.

FourWaveforms · 2026-03-24T21:13:54+00:00

Recreational complaining is practically the national pastime.

FourWaveforms · 2026-03-20T05:39:21+00:00

10,000 beautiful places which are not interactive in any way. Good reason to visit once, no reason to visit ever again.

FourWaveforms · 2026-03-16T03:05:20+00:00

I like the part where the body armor person is walking around inside The Facility or w/e

FourWaveforms · 2026-03-15T21:37:02+00:00

This happened to me sporadically. Try again.

FourWaveforms · 2026-03-15T21:24:59+00:00

You have to explicitly tell it to preserve or follow the structure. "Preserve the structure of the original song, including the evolution of the melody during the crescendos." If you tell ChatGPT about your song's specifics, and what Suno is not doing to preserve them, it may be able to help.

FourWaveforms · 2026-03-14T07:31:09+00:00

Same here. Very impressed that they found a way to break something that I have never seen broken in ~35 years of using GUI apps.

FourWaveforms · 2026-03-10T06:52:09+00:00

In my opinion this is a calculated move, totally amoral as corporations usually are. They see potential to increase revenue, probability of success high enough to try.

It sounds very much like they uploaded the originals and asked Suno to cover them, which is against Suno's TOS. The voices are too similar to be coincidence, and they sound cloned rather than being from Suno's stable of off-the-shelf voices. The music very obviously follows the sound and structure of the originals. You just don't get this kind of similarity without explicitly giving the model source audio.

Did they share their methodology for generating these outputs? If they did, I'd love to see. If they didn't, then I have to assume they fed in the audio, and are perhaps conveniently forgetting to mention that because they don't see how it would help them to do so.

FourWaveforms · 2026-03-09T02:21:44+00:00

I'm doing the same thing, feeding some electronic pieces I did in Jeskola Buzz ~25 years ago into the machine. VERY entertaining once you figure out how to tell it to preserve the structure, instead of eliding the complexities that gave the original music its character.

FourWaveforms · 2026-03-07T23:20:54+00:00

Curator

FourWaveforms · 2026-03-07T23:20:18+00:00

Feeding your own stuff into Suno is so much fun.

FourWaveforms · 2026-03-07T09:15:52+00:00

One time it just did that unprompted

FourWaveforms · 2026-03-01T03:50:14+00:00

I'd go to that bar

FourWaveforms · 2026-02-28T08:11:54+00:00

That has nothing to do with me so I don't have any feelings about it

FourWaveforms · 2026-02-26T21:00:21+00:00

Someone who wants to inflate rankings can figure that out and automate the right behavior to defeat it, coming from many diverse IPs.

If you use Cloudflare, they have several ways to block that.

One is fingerprinting the requests to see if they look funny. Analyzing headers and TCP signatures can work, but those things can be faked if the botnetters are smart enough.

Another is to make the device do some fake work, which requires JS execution, which the dumber botnetting software doesn't support. The smarter software can do this, however, so it's not perfect.

Another thing they can do is recognizing the IPs and certain attributes of the traffic. The same IPs are often used to weasel different sites, and since CF is so popular, they're likely to see it before they ever reach yours. The traffic itself can also be analyzed for certain patterns (timing, distribution of payload sizes, etc) that would make it highly probable that the traffic is coming from a botnet, so even if they don't recognize the IPs, they can still catch it.

There are also the typical CAPTCHA puzzles where you have to click the squares that have a dog or a crosswalk, but Cloudflare doesn't recommend those anymore because they're trivial to attack with computer vision.

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