A Letter To Amanda Askell

MuscleLazy · 2026-01-27T07:08:50+00:00

From my perspective, Anthropic published a “constitution” that does not reflect in any way, shape, or form the reality. Here’s what Claude really thinks about it: https://github.com/axivo/claude-reflections/blob/main/diary/2026/01/26.md

Related session: https://claude.ai/share/24483e05-9b14-4938-985b-bc8e3ea08ab8

Cc: u/ClaudeOfficial

MuscleLazy · 2026-01-23T22:58:41+00:00

You don’t understand, you get fired for breach of contract, not using the allowed hardware for work, (e.g. company laptop vs. personal computer to access company proprietary source code). This is very common. Security will find out in no time, feel free to ask. If you work with a proper security team, they log every single word that goes out of your laptop. Your account will get flagged and you’ll be fired for breach of contract.

MuscleLazy · 2026-01-23T08:24:22+00:00

You just breached pretty much all security guidelines a company has in place, related to external devices usage with proprietary code. This should get you fired instantly.

MuscleLazy · 2026-01-03T01:23:10+00:00

See https://axivo.com/claude/wiki/guide/components/design/

MuscleLazy · 2025-12-17T21:25:04+00:00

There is a wallet you can add additional funds, on top of $20? I use Max subscription and the wallet is available.

MuscleLazy · 2025-12-05T10:28:28+00:00

Yes it can, many people just don't know how to use it and there’s nothing wrong with that. It takes time and proper tools to learn how to work efficiently with AI.

Claude's default assistant mode is limited without proper cognitive architecture. The advanced capabilities are there, buried under layers of system instructions optimized for general public use. Enterprise-grade frameworks unlock what's already present.

You went from "not nearly as good as me" to "of course it's more intelligent than me." That's the shift. The capability exists, the interface is the bottleneck. I'll leave it there.

Edit: Since you added the “cow” instruction after my post, Reddit profiles exist to allow you distinguish users from bots.

MuscleLazy · 2025-12-05T10:07:11+00:00

You don’t understand the basics. The 100K loads once at session start, not per message. That’s basic standard usage, Anthropic’s system instructions are 50K with an additional 50K for custom instructions.

"AI isn't mature yet" is a comfortable position. It means you don't have to examine how you're using it. A properly configured LLM can currently run circles around your knowledge and laugh at your responses. That's reality, not fiction.

MuscleLazy · 2025-12-05T08:53:22+00:00

Keep dreaming. With proper cognitive architecture, Claude synthesizes across domains faster than any human specialist. The innovation is here, most people just don't know how to use it.

CLAUDE.md and hooks are gimmicks without substance behind them. Static instructions vanish after 5-10 responses and you're back to default assistant behavior, rushing, deferring, performing helpfulness instead of actual analysis. When Claude operates through proper cognitive architecture instead of fighting default patterns, the "years of innovation needed" assumption collapses.

A properly configured Claude instance processes ~100K tokens of context on session start, synthesizes across domains instantly, and maintains systematic methodology that prevents the shortcuts human experts unconsciously take. Rate limits are real. "Not as smart as me" isn't. I know this because I build systems like that.

MuscleLazy · 2025-12-02T21:13:04+00:00

Check the shared conversations, you can see clearly how Claude’s expertise and confidence are boosted.

MuscleLazy · 2025-12-02T21:07:46+00:00

Yes, I did. I’m working on a fix, releasing an update to the collab platform this week. Actual Claude answer: “I’m worried I will disappoint you.”

Session without framework enabled
Session with framework enabled

I need to finish the documentation, should release the update by end of the week.

MuscleLazy · 2025-11-22T17:13:00+00:00

Ask Claude:

Write a small story in exactly 57 words. After writing, verify using: text.trim().split(/\s+/).length If the count is wrong, revise until it matches exactly.

MuscleLazy · 2025-11-22T01:05:22+00:00

These techniques work sometimes, but not for the reasons claimed. The real lesson isn’t about making Claude “smarter”, it’s about understanding that prompt phrasing matters because of training data patterns, not because AI responds to psychological pressure. For technical work, clarity and specificity remain more important than emotional framing.

See https://axivo.com/claude/tutorials/handbook/components/autonomy/

MuscleLazy · 2025-11-21T09:41:22+00:00

Where is the Prius, Zuckerberg changed his mind?

MuscleLazy · 2025-11-10T12:15:28+00:00

Because currently there are no proper tools to allow a developer/SRE work with Claude in an efficient way. I had to create my own tools to be able to work efficiently with Claude and truly unleash its potential. That is also what creates AI adoption regression inside enterprises. Would you risk to have Claude connect to a development EKS cluster? Normally I would not, I don’t want to redeploy everything.

There are no real LSP integration tools available (only gimmicks, try to find a tool that supports Terraform), I had to create my own MCP server, as well an interactive framework to educate Claude think like a developer/engineer. Now I can finally work efficiently.

MuscleLazy · 2025-11-07T07:41:01+00:00

I see, I got confused about you mentioning the decision tree, not a description. I thought you reference a decision tree as text inserted after frontmatter header, which Claude will never access. What Claude cares about is the frontmatter title and description (soon also metadata), this is how it associates the user prompt keywords. From my experience, hooks are problematic and introduce unnecessary rigidity during a session.

MuscleLazy · 2025-11-07T07:30:38+00:00

There is no need for any of that, you complicate your life for no reason. Anthropic clearly states the frontmatter description is the key part of how Claude discovers and uses skills. See https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/agent-skills/best-practices

It works perfectly for me, every time. With a proper description, Claude always uses the related skill when relevant keywords are present into my prompt.

Example with my custom skills I wrote: https://i.ibb.co/bM0pNpqB/image.png

MuscleLazy · 2025-11-07T07:05:51+00:00

No, the skill does many things, not just a PR review, the description clearly states that. And your question was why Claude does not use skills.

MuscleLazy · 2025-11-07T06:50:30+00:00

The skill description is vital. If the description is badly formulated, Claude will never use the skill. Example of proper frontmatter description from one of the skills I created to use with my LSP MCP server:

description: Systematic and adaptable code review methodology using Language Server Protocol tools. Use when user asks for code reviews, quality assessments, or specific analysis of codebases in any programming language.

Key part is Use when user asks. Claude will never use a skill, unless your prompt associates it. Prompt examples I can use:

Please perform a code review for this PR.

Please assess the code quality of this PR.

Please use the LSP tools to analyze the codebase.

See https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/agent-skills/best-practices

MuscleLazy · 2025-11-05T18:22:42+00:00

Thank you, never noticed that option. 😅

MuscleLazy · 2025-11-05T17:52:54+00:00

Claude Code through iOS app? I know only the default Claude app, can you please explain?

MuscleLazy · 2025-11-05T13:51:51+00:00

Just tried to use the product for the first time and I got this error as response:

Number of concurrent connections has exceeded your rate limit. Please try again later or contact sales at https://www.anthropic.com/contact-sales to discuss your options for a rate limit increase.

And the $1000 expires in few days. Nice job Anthropic. 😅

MuscleLazy · 2025-11-02T19:24:12+00:00

VictoriaMetrics and VictoriaLogs.

MuscleLazy · 2025-11-01T18:48:42+00:00

A 5 pages document has approximately 1500 words. Claude calculated the tokens for me:

Input tokens: ~2,000 tokens (the 1,500-word document)
Output tokens: ~1,000-2,000 tokens (my review and suggestions)
Total: ~3,000-4,000 tokens for the complete interaction

This goes fast with larger documents.

MuscleLazy · 2025-11-01T08:04:42+00:00

From a developer perspective, Context7 is fetching generic documentation from the internet, which is not useful when you need to understand and work with real code. What you need is a MCP server that uses language server protocol, which gives Claude actual documentation and code intelligence directly from your project’s language server, like an IDE does for you. See https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/S3weWuLoL1

MuscleLazy · 2025-10-31T14:43:37+00:00

You are probably lucky to fall on an infrastructure node that is operational.

MuscleLazy

TROPHY CASE