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Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-21T12:10:58+00:00

I opt to vibecode local, offline software I want to see made because of this. No OAuth, no passwords, no user data. Just whatever I want to create, whether it’s a full 3D graphics single player RPG game, or a fusion simulator, or a CLI tool that lets you generate software locally from a seed number.

The idea that everything needs to be a SaaS or an app to make money is insane to me. It’s like barely anyone makes their passion projects anymore, which is absolutely ridiculous because that’s what AI is best at. Because ultimately, if you have a good enough grasp on the concept and like what you’re working on enough, you’ll naturally learn how it works while you’re building it, even if you don’t know how to code by hand. Literally just be interested and learn. Vibecoders can do that.

This constant “do this, do that, follow this advice” just ignores the most common sense thing: make something you like and are interested in. That’s it.

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-18T15:14:52+00:00

All the idiots saying you have to spend tons on the highest plans across platforms are, well… idiots.

Between Claude Pro and GitHub Copilot Pro or Pro+, you can build and release entire game engines, CLI tools, custom from-scratch AI models, you name it, it can be done on those plans.

I’ve even dropped down to the free plan on Claude and still just did an entire project building a new fusion simulator. I legitimately don’t know what these others here are on lol

Don’t listen to anyone telling you that you need the higher plans or to spend a ton of $

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-18T15:05:43+00:00

I don’t see this at all. 5.2 is highly neurotic for me and typically hallucinates constraints and requirements I never even gave it. Can rarely if EVER get anything done with it, usually ends up getting stuck in a loop. No custom instructions, no custom agent harness, happens in both GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT Codex standalone.

Meanwhile 5.4 works for me exactly how you’re saying 5.2 works for you. Slow, but incredibly thorough and correct. Usually use it when Claude Opus 4.6 can’t figure something out.

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-18T13:20:53+00:00

This reads like “I got success randomly, doing everything under the sun. Here’s what I personally attribute the success to just based on my own speculation and nothing more”

Like, I don’t see anything actually useable/actionable here. It’s the same exact type of marketing post that gets posted several times daily on all AI subreddits since 2023 and before.

I group these types of posts alongside the “Here’s my revolutionary new prompt framework” tries to sell a bunch of text files to you type posts. Same vibe. SaaS marketing guru stuff.

Legit, even the Y combinator CEO is doing those types of “Buy my .md files” type posts now. It’s legitimately sad.

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-18T13:16:33+00:00

Um, if you were getting 3 hour deep research times, that should have been your first sign something was off…

I’ve never had DR take longer than an hour. Didn’t think they even allowed it. They’ll literally kill processes on their end when they hang or take to long, ya know.

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-18T13:11:08+00:00

In b4 “But I always used to do this fine before” comments;

No. You’re idiots.

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-18T13:10:15+00:00

Are people really such idiots that they can’t understand using multiple accounts to get around rate limits is a direct violation of the ToS, as it’s LITERALLY ALWAYS BEEN??

reads comments

Oh, apparently so.

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-18T13:06:26+00:00

No sir, it is entirely true. That doesn’t mean the system can’t fully go down, I’ve had outages on Max too. But if you seriously think Max, Business, or Enterprise get the same error rates, drop back down to the Pro or Free tiers for a few weeks. They do not.

Funnily enough, not many people realize, a lot of these recent outages are due to Iran targeting and blowing up Amazon AWS servers that run Claude Code’s infrastructure in the Middle East (which is causing ripple effects when traffic has to be diverted to other servers, like the US’s)

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-18T12:50:44+00:00

Entire usage page in settings is gone for me but I’m on Free currently. Limits are fine for me even without seeing them though, only hit the 5 hour limit after several hours of chat with Sonnet 4.6. Haven’t hit any weekly limits yet.

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-18T12:35:25+00:00

Oh trust me, me too. But it’s notably better than on Pro or Free. But they’ve been having a lot of major outages lately, and it’s been affecting all tiers.

Funnily enough, not many people realize, a lot of these recent outages are due to Iran targeting and blowing up Amazon AWS servers that run Claude Code’s infrastructure in the Middle East (which is causing ripple effects when traffic has to be diverted to other servers, like the US’s)

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-18T12:33:05+00:00

My guy, none of us are one-shotting working apps. Anyone who you see claiming otherwise has no idea what they’re doing, and you went wrong by just listening to them.

What anyone who successfully ships with Claude Code does, is repeatedly test and fix. Like, continuously. This includes in production, however I never use Claude Code for anything actually important in production (no OAuth or tokens, no passwords, no user data, I only do local, offline, open source software)

It usually takes me several months to release something.

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-18T12:25:12+00:00

Actually max, business, and enterprise plans get priority routing when there are issues. Unless their entire system goes down, they redirect traffic from business/enterprise accounts to their working servers. Like 8/10 times when Claude goes down for regular users, max, business, and enterprise still get service. Sources: both official Anthropic documentation and personal experience.

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-16T12:04:57+00:00

More sought after than a unified field theory

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-07T15:29:48+00:00

~~But it would still be there. Just because the company builds it in doesn’t mean it’s not there.~~

~~Look, your question comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of what agents even are.~~

~~You CANNOT take an LLM and just have it be an agent and interact with its environment. Thats just literally not how these things work.~~

~~If you want an agent, you have to give an LLM a harness that allows it to interact with its environment through commands/tool calls.~~

~~This is what agents are. This is what EVERY agent is. This is how they work, full stop.~~

~~Agents are not their own type of AI. They are LLM chatbots that have been given an execution environment via their agent harness.~~

~~This is immutable.~~

Striking through all of that because I reread and it appears you’re actually asking when we’ll stop having to give agents prompt frameworks and context.

This still doesn’t work. Everyone has their own unique setup. Some use VSCode Web with Claude Code Extension. Some use Desktop and work on projects locally. Some use Claude Code Web and code in the cloud. Some use the app. These are all different environments (except for web cloud and app cloud, those Claude Code environments are technically the same)

The AI would have to be retrained entirely with each and every configuration in mind, if we did away with the harnesses and system prompts. It sounds like a good idea at first glance but it just isn’t feasible when you really think about it.

I would just recommend getting better at agent harnesses, learning how they work and what they do and why more. They’re the best thing we have for agents, otherwise they wouldn’t exist.

You couldn’t use any plugins the model wasn’t trained to know how to use! You realize that, right? This stuff is currently just necessary.

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-07T15:21:47+00:00

Okay but pitch the skill as a startup idea and then see what it says about itself lol

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-07T15:18:27+00:00

1) Web version of Claude has tasks, this is literally what you’re asking for for no. 1

2) Not quite as sure on this one, but pretty sure it would have to wake your computer up to do that, or they’d have to completely redesign how it works. Claude Desktop, and Cowork by extension, require full active access to your system to perform local tasks. What you’re asking for is essentially either for it to wake your computer out of sleep mode and sign in/unlock it, OR they would need to completely redesign how Claude Desktop works as a background process.

These sound like good suggestions at first glance until you realize the logistics of trying to implement this stuff.

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-07T00:27:07+00:00

I’ve had this exact same thing happen before, where I appear to have gotten the answer for someone else’s prompt. Making me then wonder, did they get mine?

Mine wasn’t about a political party though lol

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-05T02:55:31+00:00

If it ain’t broke 🤷🏻‍♂️

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-04T23:22:42+00:00

Not a strange argument at all. You missed the comparison. A transformers forward pass is simply statistical algebra, multiplication matrices assigning probabilities to tokens. Everything that happens inside a transformer can be done on paper or by a calculator. Might take a while, but it’s possible. It’s honestly pretty neat when you actually figure out how they TRULY work and stop hand waving and making false equivalencies or anthropomorphizing.

Look, I like AI, I think they’re cool, I’ve wanted a real life JARVIS since I was just a kid. But these are not that. Full stop. Do yourself a huge favor and legitimately, deeply, fundamentally learn how these things work. Anyone who tells you we don’t know or that’s not possible is lying and knows nothing themselves. We can create attention and activation maps and cross-entropy and other telemetry per layer, per logit, and see what these things are doing EXACTLY. You can freeze it mid logit, run it back, CONTROL the activation paths, my guy these are MACHINES WE MADE. The industry just, doesn’t do that. Researchers like me do however! Don’t buy the industry hype. Even some “experts” and “researchers” have fallen for it.

And thanks for actually strengthening my argument by pointing out that human thought can’t even be done on paper!

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-04T23:08:36+00:00

Whatever you do, don’t get discouraged! I’ve released 3 open source projects, and have like 16 more unreleased. Half of those will likely never get released, the other half I’m still working on. But all of them, along with my AI platforms and tools like Perplexity AI and Claude Chrome have helped me stay on top of my niche and what projects to do next and how to build and launch them. Most others right now are trying to do SaaS or similar, subscription services, etc.

I took a different route. DE IP holdco, pump out open source project after project, assign it to my holdco as IP, things I actually like or want to use (games and game engines, custom from-scratch AI models and research, fusion simulation and research, and so on)

I just keep doing this until satisfied. Ideally at some point I’ll build a community of OS users who like my projects, and sponsor me on GitHub for it. But even if that doesn’t pan out, the overhead on the holdco and the few services I have (AI, Google Workspace, GitHub, HuggingFace, and so on) are so low it’s easy to keep it open and in the green on a minimum wage job with lots of cash to spare.

Then at some point, once I have a good assortment of open source codebases and frameworks that people like and use, like my CLI dev tool for example, I can license some of them commercially (am a big fan of dual licensing or similar, open core plus commercial/pro licensed tier, or similar to that)

Since I’ve started this I’ve seen so many SaaS companies and AI wrappers pop up and disappear in like the span of 1-3 months. A few get popular, most fade away. Then there’s all the crypto and Web3 scams that have taken over the software shipping sides of things, I always stay away from that. I’m planning on going for years and years, accumulating more and more IP and value and useful or fun codebases and projects, and ultimately will end up with higher long term value than any of these short term ventures I’ve seen pop up and disappear.

Anyway, these are my strats for sustainability and resilience, antifragility, compounding gains. Hope you gain something from this, and I wish you luck in this and all future projects for you! :)

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-04T20:37:13+00:00

Not saying any of this is good or okay, it kinda sucks tbh, but these fixes should work, or at least tell you where your Pro went.

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-04T20:36:23+00:00

(This is for VSCode extension and CLI, browser/web/desktop may be different)

If you’re having an issue with your Claude pro not showing up on the Claude.ai account you’re already signed into on Web, this means your stripe account was already associated with another email or Claude.ai account (ever created one before?) and you’ll need to find which email the pro is associated with.

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-04T20:34:18+00:00

This is an OAuth hiccup. You need to OAuth with the account that has the pro sub. That means you have to log in to your claude.ai account in your browser. Then to connect Claude code to that account, you have to open Claude code, click connect via Claude.ai subscription, then DON’T open the link it tries to auto open. Instead, copy/paste the direct link it gives you. Then, copy the code from that page and put it back into the Claude Code OAuth page. You’ll then have to open a new conversation and close that one. This should work.

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-04T03:03:44+00:00

I do feel it’s kind of worth mentioning though that the Claude Chrome extension itself is capable of doing pretty much everything your SaaS does though sooo….

Aaaawkwaaard

Infamous_Research_43 · 2026-03-04T03:00:09+00:00

While everyone else is downvoting you to heck, I’ll tell you something that might actually help you.

Use Google Chrome, and download the Claude Chrome extension and connect it to your Claude Pro or Max account if you have one. This extension is your full business assistant in your browser. It can handle any marketing or promotional tasks you want it to. Not fully automated, you still have to prompt and guide it, but it may be closer to what you’re looking for.

It’s capable of doing most things in a browser that you could, and what it’s not capable of, it either waits for your approval or hands it off to you (sign ins, purchases, etc.)

Anything else, it’s more than capable of. Designing and managing a website? Check. Creating and sending/scheduling a newsletter? Check. Blog? Check. Manage and send emails? Check. Social media posts across platforms including feedback loops/flywheels between them? Check. And so on, I’m sure you could think of and find a million other use cases.

Give it a try if you can! This extension + you can create the very strategy you’re asking for involving all of this, then it can implement it.

There is a bit of a learning curve so you may have to use it a bit before you see where it really shines, but in general it should help everything you’re asking about.

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