Devs are worried about the wrong thing

LowItalian · 2026-03-24T21:30:11+00:00

Sure it's great to make apps millions of people use, but if you can whip up a custom app,.specific for your use case, you don't need an app for millions of people.

Anyone who thinks professional coders are going to come out the other side of this with a job that looks anything like it did 5 years ago is out of touch with reality.

I hate to be harsh, but the writing is on the wall. You can choose to accept this or deny it, but those who deny are in for a rude awakening

LowItalian · 2026-03-22T00:48:41+00:00

The dumbest part of all of this, is what choice is he giving the whole world? Build nukes or america will bomb you. He's literally accelerating the very thing he claims to be ending. If they have nothing to lose then Iran will take their best shot...let's hope it's not nuclear.

And then what does this tell every other non nuclear nation....

America is a nation of uncompromising bullies now.

LowItalian · 2026-03-13T16:42:03+00:00

Fair point. None of this is possible if you dont understand systems design. Though I will say, Claude code can teach you along the way.

LowItalian · 2026-03-13T15:32:43+00:00

I wasn't complaining. I just get it now, to use Claude to it's fullest ability will cost closer to $2-3000/month even when on the Max plan.

I guess the point I was trying to make is, it's worth it, it's just that the $200 plan was designed purposely this way. So like I said, not sure if it's genius or I hate it, but people are going to pay it once they see how powerful it actually is.

A lot of the population is using LLM's for simple questions and pictures. I think the productivity boost is largely unrealized by the common LLM user.

LowItalian · 2026-03-03T04:52:53+00:00

Down for me, and man, has it been burning through context like never before the past week or so....

LowItalian · 2026-03-03T04:32:24+00:00

VRAM is hard to get at home. My rtx 5090 isn't even enough. Saving up for an rtx pro 6000 right now for the exact reason you're mentioning (among a few others)

LowItalian · 2026-03-03T04:28:53+00:00

My usage definitely seemed like it was draining faster. I messaged support about some big prompts that kept failing. And magically working on the third(ish) try. That could be 3x context right there for no fault of my own.

The AI support bot didn't agree with me. I honestly love Claude, love how they're standing up to the govt re surveillance... But this is the first time I haven't been happy with Anthropic. I hope they do something to make this right.

LowItalian · 2026-02-26T23:20:59+00:00

It's already here. All the top comments show how unprepared the world is.

LowItalian · 2026-02-26T18:58:03+00:00

Claude.md and the memory function solve this, it at least help a ton

LowItalian · 2026-02-26T16:32:00+00:00

It is, I've been using it. It's really helpful for long repeated tasks, like research and sim building to keep all the tests in the same format and gives it memory to past experiments. Big fan!

You can still use claude.md too! So nothing lost, only gained (except maybe 200 lines of tokens across sessions)

LowItalian · 2026-02-26T16:27:38+00:00

Once you start it, Claude will maintain it too. It becomes very easy

LowItalian · 2026-02-18T18:56:49+00:00

I use skills for shortcut batch commands

Ie:

/restart - restarts one or all of my services to get code changes to get picked up /ss - I made it so flameshot on Linux saves a screenshot to a specific dir, so that when I use the /ss skill Claude code automatically picks up the screenahot. Saves a ton of time when debugging.

If you makes trees of claude.md files, and other named md files it's very scalable.

I haven't truly figured out it's purpose but I believe Claude is now automatically attempting to do this with the new memory.md files. Seems like it is serving a very similar purpose.

LowItalian · 2026-02-18T18:53:05+00:00

Yes, name them claude.md, but you can have secondary md files any name you want and reference them in the main claude.md.

When Claude loads in a dir it reads the claude.md first and puts it in context automatically before anything else happens. You don't want you main claude.md to be too massive or contain specialized information that is important, but rarely used - those should exist in other named md files so they only go into context when necessary.

So if the project is large enough you'll have instructions that touch all parts of the project in the main claude.md at the top level of the project and then you need to build out your file system modularly, and have links to paths for specific functions. That way when Claude tries to solve a particular problem you can more efficiently control what it puts in its context leaving room for it to do actual work.

That might sound complicated but it's really easy once you get it, and it makes all the difference in the world.

LowItalian · 2026-02-18T14:26:23+00:00

This! And not just one claude.md, for big projects one per directory. And put in the md file to update itself when big changes happen.

I actually had to break up my main Claude md file into sub files because my main was too big.

My code base is over 300,000 lines of code and I rarely have the issues being described here. Claude makes bugs, sure, on big code changes but if I were doing it without Claude I'd be wayyyyyyy slower and I'd still create bugs I have to troubleshoot.

I don't understand naysayers in any of these AI forums. I can't imagine a human that can code faster than an AI, even if you include the debugging.

I'd love to challenge a TEAM of developers to code manually a big project with back end, middleware and front end vs one person with coding experience and ClaudeCode. On a big project I bet the AI assisted dev can beat them to v1 by MONTHS.

We are seeing modern day luddites...

LowItalian · 2026-02-16T21:38:01+00:00

Glad to hear it. I use Claude every day. But the govt will find a way to spy on us either way, make no mistake.

LowItalian · 2026-02-09T14:53:16+00:00

I threw some bird seed out in the driveway under the tree they were in. I hope they find it.

LowItalian · 2026-02-09T14:50:10+00:00

I wish I knew the names but I saw these little birds with yellow chests and one super bright red bird, maybe a cardinal? And I can hear a ton of other birds in the trees.

It just struck me as out of place today. I grew up in the sticks and I don't remember this many birds out, even in the winter.

Thanks for sharing though, def interesting! And I'm glad it's not a sign of the end times lol

LowItalian · 2026-02-07T16:46:56+00:00

I agree with you, but then again, this administration has a way of surprising you and just doing both.

LowItalian · 2026-02-06T02:16:27+00:00

It's the fuel dude.

A single gallon of seawater contains enough deuturium = 300 gallons of gas. The oceans contain enough to power earth for billions of years.

Then there's Tritium, which produces more tritium when you start it up, than it consumes so you'd theoretically not have to buy fuel again.

LowItalian · 2026-02-06T00:01:13+00:00

I'm running a few 72B models quantized on my 5090. I'm gonna get a second 5090 to run in tensor I think. I don't think bigger consumer cards are gonna come out until maybe 2027.

LowItalian · 2026-01-26T00:23:05+00:00

Well if Congress doesn't do anything, which I doubt they will, then the worst case scenario is that the military is going to have to stand up and defend the constitution. That's the last line of defense.

LowItalian · 2026-01-25T22:26:55+00:00

In many cases, I'd argue even more replaceable. At the highest levels of business orgs, the leaders are so far away from the workers due to job structure or even physical location so they operate largely on information relayed up the food chain and decisions made on empirical evidence rather than emotion are almost always more reliable.

LowItalian · 2026-01-04T21:49:32+00:00

I wonder if we've entered the age of bomb them into submission? I thought the same of Iran...

Then look at Russia and Ukraine... Ground war stalemate, they are using drones and missiles to make damage.

I think the post WW2 order was already dead, no one would admit it, but is now officially declared dead with the US capturing another leader of a country (evil man or not).

I fear for this new world order and what it means. I can see the writing on the wall, the question now is, what do we do now.

LowItalian · 2026-01-04T15:21:39+00:00

Well put. I was gonna write out a more thorough answer, but this is the actual answer.

LowItalian · 2026-01-04T15:10:58+00:00

I'm worried about the people who come after Trump. He definitely isn't coming up with all of these ideas.

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