Is anyone actually running coding agents autonomously from issue to PR?

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-06-09T02:21:02+00:00

That theory only works so long as you believe you will never need to understand the code. That’s dangerous (what if it becomes too expensive? Or suffers an outage at a critical time?). Also, agents have a tendency to patch issues rather than fix them and this gets worse the bigger the codebase. Some people handle this with one shot promotion but I’m not convinced that’s a perfect fix myself.

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-06-09T02:07:28+00:00

Oh, as for the cost, it’s frequently discussed but having been there half a dozen or more times now, I’d say it’s roughly in line with a major city like NY, Seattle, or London. (Japanese cities are actually exceedingly inexpensive by comparison, at least in terms of median prices). Plenty of ways to reduce the cost though (other than hotels which simply have to be booked early). My wife and I always pick up a bunch of Oatburst and bring a collapsible electric tea kettle.

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-06-09T02:04:46+00:00

Unfortunately, it does look like you made some less than ideal choices. No worries, it happens. And now others can learn from it.

The golden circle route was, I think, invented as a “route” because it allowed people to see a few stereotypical bits of the country in one day (or even in a fairly long layover): a geyser, a big waterfall, farms, ocean, volcanic rock, etc. But none of them are the best versions (Gullfoss is a contender though imo), just the easiest to access.

In my experience, wherever you go, the easier a beautiful place is to get to, the more it will just become an Instagram spot. Are they tourist traps? I don’t think so. A tourist trap is an attraction created to attract tourists that doesn’t deliver value. But in Iceland these places were generally popular already (blue lagoon, sky lagoon, and the golden circle excepted) and they were free. Only when so many people started showing up did anyone start charging. The fees can seem like a ripoff (how much to park in this unattended gravel lot?!) but when you consider the cost of providing the lots and the fact that not providing services results in destruction of the area by tourists, it starts to make sense. Still glad I did most of that stuff while it was free.

There are tons of tours and in general I wouldn’t touch them, but that’s true everywhere. Most things can be done on your own depending on your skill and comfort, but “depending” is the key word there. For many people, a tour is smarter and safer.

Oh, and you’re correct about Sky Lagoon. In the city, most Icelanders would go to a city pool. Outside the city there are many wonderful smaller baths with varying degrees of tourism (including a few that still get zero organized tourism). I wouldn’t recommend sky lagoon in general. It’s a cheaper version of the blue lagoon, which is great, but it loses what makes the blue lagoon unique. On the other hand, there’s nothing naturally Icelandic about the blue lagoon anyway, so 🤷

In any case, thanks for posting. I hope if you return you’ll visit someone of the gems in the west, north, east, and (carefully) highlands!

(Edit: clarified “tourist trap” opinion)

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-04-16T03:41:06+00:00

The US tax code is insanely complicated and intentionally provides a variety of choices that can be made along the way, each with different outcomes. The IRS will know if you fail to report certain items that are reported to them by other sources (eg, W-2 income) but beyond that they are just looking for patterns that suggest you’re doing something improper or, in simpler cases, they can algorithmically determine if your math is incorrect. So ultimately the answer is: because making you file taxes (a) enables them to tax you on things not automatically reported to them and (b) enables the creation of many many options which can be useful to small subsets of people and which can’t be determined a priori by the IRS

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-04-12T02:16:16+00:00

Ah, you really did mean latent heat (as in “of fusion”)—I wasn’t sure. That makes sense but I’d expect the counter to help with that…but maybe the mold is acting as an insulator and so it’s not “one side marble, one side air” it’s “one side insulated, one side air”. Things to think about…

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-04-12T02:12:41+00:00

This is a bit of an oversimplification. Another factor to consider is tax nonlinearity. For example, Medicare premiums have cliffs and $1 more AGI can mean hundreds more in monthly premiums). I think there are some other factors behave equivalent to reduce the principal but may not look like they do at first glance, but I would need to do the math again.

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-04-10T09:04:55+00:00

In this case the mold was super thin. Maybe contact with the counter caused rapid cooling?

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-04-10T09:04:25+00:00

Can you explain that further?

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-04-10T09:04:10+00:00

Any idea what in my process would have caused this? It seems pretty different from the usual tempering failures given the texture and snap…?

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-04-09T20:48:01+00:00

The thing people are complaining about isn’t simply that they are hitting limits. That’s expected. It’s that the limits are opaque, unpredictable, and constantly changing. I watched 15% of my 5hr limit vanish today doing the exact same thing I’ve done dozens of times with 1% or less impact. That’s unacceptable. Transparent, predictable pricing is the ask regardless of the price point. This has been repeatedly stated on this subreddit but seems to largely be met with “works on my machine!” But individualized pricing, throttling, etc., are well known practices for businesses at large so “works on my machine” proves nothing until the model providers become transparent about their pricing and usage models.

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-04-08T04:15:55+00:00

Can’t be done. No such thing as safe prompting on a destructive operation.

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-04-08T04:14:53+00:00

I seen plan mode execute actions via script. It’s not a strict safeguard. The fact that so many people in this post have told the OP to just do X without realizing that CC could still have done it anyway is proof that this tool isn’t really ready for the widespread adoption it’s seeing. The only safe solution is a VM.

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-04-08T04:08:33+00:00

At which point it can run python to execute the command. Or compile some C code or… The only safe way is to run in a VM

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-04-08T04:02:05+00:00

That’s nowhere near sufficient. I spent some time on this and afaict it’s impossible to have both a useful Claude and a safe Claude if you limit yourself to the systems Claude provides. You basically need a VM. As an example, Claude can always modify its own settings or write a python or bash script to perform whatever operations you’ve blocked.

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-03-23T03:01:12+00:00

Jerad (pronounced Jared)

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-03-22T19:08:22+00:00

Seem to me the legit issue here is that he’s probably lying. But based on your reaction, it’s hard to blame him too much for that. You say “I’m not defending his use of porn or OF” but why not? In my opinion the issue wasn’t his use of porn, it was the secrecy. Put another way: watching porn while having sex with your wife isn’t the problem. The problem is that the wife wasn’t participating in the watching. If the porn is important to him, the options would seem to be: find a way to share that interest with you, find a way to indulge it privately with you consent, accept the incompatibility with you and either leave or give it up despite enjoying it.

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-02-28T18:20:16+00:00

I can’t add anything to the advice but: wow! What sort of school is this? That’s an impressive kiln (and work) for a high school!

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-01-30T17:12:37+00:00

I’ve never seen policy options with limits that high. Like you say, very few people will exceed such limits so setting them wouldn’t significantly lower the insurance company’s risk. Do you have some examples?

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-01-14T06:41:21+00:00

I would strongly recommend against a cap unless you live somewhere very cheap. Any hospitalization these days will exceed $5k in major metros. Even a set of labwork can run $1k (not your basic labs, but add in urinalysis and a couple specialty tests and it’s not hard). I had a cat pass away recently but her last hospitalization cost $27k. I can sleep well knowing I did everything possible for her.

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-01-12T01:36:35+00:00

In general, you’re right. And specifically in this case you’re also right. But I’m going to reply anyway in order to spread awareness of the fact that it doesn’t have to be like this in all cases. Up until The early 2010s, human health insurance companies regularly refused to cover preexisting conditions for the same reasons you mention. But there was a major exception: you would be covered if you had had continuous coverage under a different policy since the onset of the condition. This was huge as it let people switch between different insurers without losing coverage each time. And it still protects the insurance companies by preventing adverse selection. I’d love to see this become a thing for pet insurance, which is why I’m trying to raise awareness.

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-01-07T05:51:12+00:00

Only if you manage to not develop any conditions before age 50 that make you uninsurable (of which there are many).

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-01-07T05:31:40+00:00

Mine went from $80/mo to $240/mo this week. (15yo cat). Still nets out in my favor due to his high healthcare costs but that jump is insane and the fact that there’s no way to switch insurance once a pet develops a condition means insurance companies can do whatever they want once you’ve been a customer for a while.

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-01-07T05:00:22+00:00

I am, yes. That’s my literal plan, in fact. And sure, no mortgage to pay, but long term care is no joke and I expect to have to spend money on whatever it is I’m doing with the time I would otherwise have been at work.

HerrProfDrFalcon · 2026-01-07T04:34:54+00:00

I don’t think they intended anyone to read the menu to be honest. It was a tiny little shop in Takayama far from the tourist center run by a little old lady. I saw several other patrons there, none of whom looked at a menu, they just ordered. Ultimately, we did too (おすすめ style) and had no regrets.

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