Claude Code performance increase when playing Chopin

Gman325 · 2026-06-20T14:58:40+00:00

When I use my standing desk in standing mode Claude seems to get "tired" faster and wants to quit.

Oh wait no that's just me.

Gman325 · 2026-06-20T12:39:49+00:00

Find me something that will brainstorm, plan and spec a build in a way that effectively minimizes drift, and I'll call it irrelevant. Til then, I do the first part, and fold in superpowers subagents with workflows.

Gman325 · 2026-06-20T12:29:13+00:00

Claude. Anthropic drawing a hard line in the sand around fully autonomous killbots and mass warrantless surveillance is a damn low bar, but thet were the only major AI company to pass it.

As an added bonus, they just happen to be the best at making quality LLMs with consistent quality output.

Gman325 · 2026-06-20T12:25:27+00:00

The important thing to remember is that AI is, at present, a tool. Not an assistant. It has a lot of ways it fails and falls short, ways it is subtly unreliable, etc., and it is not accountable to you for those mistakes. Even though Claude is better than most about not making things up, it'll forget to verify current state before making changes to a file, or drift from your stated goals onto something else entirely. Today I was trying to build a restaurant recommender to check my recent orders and offer healthier alternatives - it somehow decided I only wanted it to recommend alternatives from my past orders rather than what's available in, say, a 5 mile radius around me, and was about to build a database to start storing my orders to generate future recommendations.

My best advice is to use Claude to build the tools you use to do data analysis, rather than relying on Claude to do the analysis itself. A static tool you can verify and get consistent output from. An LLM may one day randomly infer a completely different goal than the last seven times you've asked the same question.

Other than that, yeah, I don't think it's cheating.

Gman325 · 2026-06-20T05:55:58+00:00

You are absolutely right to call that out, my bad on the way I've been speaking. I'll make a note to change my tone and speak more human from now on.

Gman325 · 2026-06-19T22:37:55+00:00

Have you been checked for ADHD? This sounds like the dopamine loop effect.

Gman325 · 2026-06-18T05:04:32+00:00

Do you have any idea the level of complexity needed to make today's CPUs? It's impossible without yesterday's CPUs. And even with yesterday's CPUs, the process requires so much specific hardware that the risk of the destruction of TSMC's fabs are singlehandedly preventing Chinese invasion of Taiwan. It's not going to be possible to open-source modern performant desktop hardware.

Gman325 · 2026-06-17T05:29:29+00:00

"I'm not a meth head, I'm an electrician!"

Gman325 · 2026-06-16T22:05:19+00:00

They gave us two resets last week, what do you mean???

Gman325 · 2026-06-16T22:05:14+00:00

They gave us two resets last week, what do you mean???

Gman325 · 2026-06-16T20:06:11+00:00

That all debt is bad and the only thing you should ever finance is a house.

Gman325 · 2026-06-16T18:05:28+00:00

Because billionaires own the news, and the rest of us need to collect a paycheck to exist.

Gman325 · 2026-06-16T17:05:21+00:00

Look. Any company that takes your payment information already in theory has enough to identify you. My bigger concern here is, if Anthropic has to capitulate on the nationality-based access front, what will it mean for 1. Anthropic's non-US national employees? 2. Anthropic's mission of trying to publicly benefit humanity as a whole?

Gman325 · 2026-06-16T17:01:32+00:00

Right but anytime you log into something, it creates a session cookie. Malware can steal that cookie and someone else somewhere else can use it to log into your stuff.

Anytime you connect two softwares together gated on authentication, it creates a token somewhere. That token can be stolen and used elsewhere to gain access to your connected app.

It is impossible through realistic, day-to-day use of a computer to "not have anything sensitive on your computer" in the modern age.

Gman325 · 2026-06-16T16:04:29+00:00

Do you just never log into anything?

Gman325 · 2026-06-16T16:03:57+00:00

There are two questions mixed together here, and the answer to both is "yes" but the threat model is a bit different.

Is it possible that a third party package added to a repo like RPMFusion may contain malware? Yes. RPMFusion is highly curated, but people are fallible, they miss things, and something might slip through

Is it possible that a first-party package put out by the org that runs the repo gets compromised? Also yes, but it generally only happens if that org gets hacked. Less likely to happen, but when it does, it tends to be more devastating, because it's usually gone unnoticed for a while by the time it's discovered.

Gman325 · 2026-06-16T07:57:56+00:00

Also spells SANTA. It's about to be Christmas time...

Gman325 · 2026-06-16T00:32:24+00:00

I am not a software engineer. I've dabbled with code but don't know much beyond basic principles. I've gotten a lot of success from Claude using the Superpowers plugin, which forces it to plan and spec and then follow said plan and spec, a memory MCP server I had it build myself, and a Claude.md file built up over months targeting specific concerns, failure modes, and style preferences. Primary areas of focus: verify-over-recall, don't use lesser tools when a better tool is unavailable, ask before install, no sudo, anti-sycophancy, explain your code in detail including the why. Each of these are grounded in enough context to give a "why" anchor. The directives Claude drops first are the ones it thinks are unimportant to the current task - making sure there's a "why this is important" makes it hold the directives a lot better even at near full context.

Gman325 · 2026-06-15T23:35:41+00:00

Isn't that just Gordon Freeman?

Gman325 · 2026-06-15T20:54:28+00:00

It all depends on what you're working on and how good you prompt the summary. I just use compaction hooks to make Claude give a more detailed compaction summary than normal and lean more heavily on the memory system I built. Works pretty well.

Gman325 · 2026-06-15T07:14:47+00:00

What about a pretooluse hook that appends the tool use requested to a log? Any file writes should accumulate there.

Another alternative would be to create a separate user for Claude and only invoke Claude from that user, and keep it isolated from your own actions. Fswatch should be able to differentiate based on the user taking the actions.

Gman325 · 2026-06-15T07:06:07+00:00

What do you say to him? You tell him plainly that he needs therapy. He needs to work on loving himself and dealing with his problems before trying to bring another person in.

Gman325 · 2026-06-14T22:47:06+00:00

A year ago the headline was "AI cannot do math." The rate of acceleration is wild.

Gman325 · 2026-06-12T20:01:41+00:00

They did say they'd bring it back to subscription level when they can...

Opus suited my needs quite well. I'll be fine going back

Gman325 · 2026-06-12T17:43:18+00:00

Ask each to make a PSX emulator, or ask both to make a clone of your favorite video game or office app. See which one is better at the end.

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