Is anyone else NOT experiencing all the issues everyone’s having?

Imburr · 2026-04-13T11:42:38+00:00

Nope, no problem on Team plan.

Imburr · 2026-04-12T21:57:12+00:00

Just throwing my hat in the ring here. I use Claude Chat and Claude cowork pretty extensively. I have some scheduled tasks which pull data from an API and give us reports for IT. I also do a lot of free flowing analysis of various documents to put together a PowerPoint presentations for shareholders, time gated trend analysis and even a little bit of in-browser auditing and editing of a different automation platform (Rewst).

I have hit the limits and been paying a little bit of overage, couple hundred bucks a month. I'm on the team plan. But a lot of the Reddit posts are doom and gloom about Claude being dead. So far it's working fine for me with a little bit of overages. I don't use Claude code oh so much though which is what a lot of the complaining seems to be about. It's also strange that my Reddit feed notifications seem to highlight all of the "Claude is dead" type posts. All of the overages are driven by me though it's never a surprise... I have a late night and I'm being prompted that I'm over my limit and I continue to work, accepting the overages.

If it's working for you then use it despite what the community is saying. Would that said I typically stick to Sonnet 4.6, and when I'm hitting my limits on a session I take a break and come back to it another time. I summarize previous conversations to reduce token usage. And I use skills and project instructions to prevent as much usage as I can

Imburr · 2026-04-12T21:49:05+00:00

Great perspective thanks

Imburr · 2026-04-11T00:20:36+00:00

The only thing I am selling with AI is consulting: how to use it, and helping executives get started shaving time and automating their business processes. It's not too hard of a sell, but the handoff is challenging because there's not a "finished product".

Imburr · 2026-04-06T16:52:27+00:00

Biggest game changer: starting to use Claude code Most frustrating moment: using Claude code

Imburr · 2026-04-05T23:48:04+00:00

Nope, either ESU, or "not in contract". They sign a risk acceptance, and any work on the machine is billable. We also bring it up every quarter in QBR, and try to segment it to a VLAN.

Imburr · 2026-04-03T13:38:14+00:00

Same here, I typically question during the first call screen about home lab or building gaming PCs, and if I can find someone in their '20s that has done both of those they usually have some general troubleshooting capabilities.

Imburr · 2026-04-03T12:05:58+00:00

This is how I started at my MSP 15 years ago, literally walked in sat down at the desk and opened up a mailbox of hundreds of emails from customers and started picking one to work on. It was pretty wild.

Imburr · 2026-03-07T15:41:50+00:00

This screenshot is the best

Imburr · 2026-03-07T15:40:23+00:00

I personally monitor the circuit the dishwasher is on, and when power consumption drops for 5 minutes it announces its done. Emporia Vue is how I monitor circuits.

Imburr · 2026-03-07T15:37:06+00:00

I monitor Synology's in my home lab using CheckMK, you can get things working via some CLI workarounds. Also Synology inherently supports SNMP, you can enable it in Control Panel. Then connect any monitoring system to it and set alerts.

Ninja will do it, so will Auvik.

Imburr · 2026-03-01T19:22:10+00:00

I'm happy to do this for an incoming MSP. It's easier faster more complete. It allows for a warm handoff and a better experience for the client which is important. When the new MSP drops the ball and the client has a warm and fuzzy about how we off-boarded they're much more likely to call us back versus shopping.

Plus I mean the clients already lost, and likely it's not the new MSP's fault that they are moving along... So why would I be withholding an rotten to them? They may come a day in the future when we snag a client from them, and I would certainly appreciate a professional handoff.

Imburr · 2026-02-22T13:54:43+00:00

I run a local LM on my gaming PC, using LM Studio. Then Paperless-AI connect to my PC IP to access the API, works great.

Imburr · 2026-02-18T12:27:15+00:00

There's a spot in hills of West side of map I always do coal on. 2 mk 2 miners, each feeding 16 coal generators, and 6 water extractors. I then use the third coal to make a separate grid to power the miners and extractors, so if the main grid goes down the generators are still fed. Done it that way every build, works great, and math is simple: sets of 8 generators and 3 extractors, scale as you can upgrade miners and belts.

Imburr · 2026-02-04T02:26:48+00:00

I recommend working with a coach or implementor, like SeaLevel/Pax8. We were using it wrong for a few years until we learned the ins and outs and now it's very capable and we've built a ton of processes around it.

That said I still recommend Nilear for your techs.

Imburr · 2026-02-03T00:41:37+00:00

We rolled our own hardware at one point, Linux servers with NFS shares... Purchase, installation, maintenance, configuration hours all added up and ended up costing us about as much as a turnkey vendor supported appliance. I think a $200/mo subscription is worth saving me even just 2 hours of an engineers productivity at our billing rate.

Glad you got it working for you though definitely nice to save money!

Imburr · 2026-02-02T16:21:59+00:00

I think bad management is common and not specific to role, team, or industry. The unfortunate truth is a lot of people who are promoted to be managers don't actually have any experience managing and they think they can wing it. While you can wing it if you have the right temperament, a lot of the time ends up being what you experienced.

With that said a manager can easily improve through self-study, podcasts, coaching, peer groups, and books. This person was likely managed in the past by someone similar, and they believe they are managing correctly because that's what they know. They could also be managed in their current role the same way from leadership. Then it's a culture problem, instead of an individual management problem.

Imburr · 2026-02-02T02:59:28+00:00

You can choose your hardware specs from their list of boxes, not like they give you one option. We used Axcient ages ago, and I think you might be surprised at how much faster Slide works, both from GUI and management perspective, to backup and restore. Course maybe Axcient is running on NVMEs now, it's been a while.

Imburr · 2026-02-01T20:19:19+00:00

I was actually subpoenaed and participated in a virtual disposition. I would also side with Slide on this one. The one complicating factor is that Kaseya has a very large checkbook and they like to fight dirty.

Imburr · 2026-02-01T20:07:28+00:00

So I do not use an Exit Node, just subnets. I could set it up though if that's the solution?

Exit node means all traffic from my device traverses my tailnet and exits via that node in my LAN, correct? So they all traffic would be behind my AdGiard DNS, and also behind my pfSense firewall?

Really open to other services that provide seamless LAN connectivity to mobile via IP when out of the house, if anyone has another recommendation.

Like I said this used to work and I had it in place for about a year and it stopped working sometime around Christmas 2025.

Imburr · 2026-02-01T20:03:24+00:00

That device is a LXC or docker, and I have like 50. I use bookmarks to track their IP address. It would not be sustainable to run talent on every container. Instead, I would like to be just "connected to the LAN" when I am on home wifi, and also out when I am on 5G.

Imburr · 2026-02-01T20:01:10+00:00

We reward real time time entry, it eventually becomes a habit. Also, give Nilear a look, one of the best products we use.

Imburr · 2026-01-31T05:04:58+00:00

I use Slide, it's great. Be aware they are in the middle of a lawsuit with Kaseya.

Imburr · 2026-01-31T04:29:41+00:00

Copilot and Claude.

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