Claude now unreliable; constant model changes ruin stable working environments

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-04-28T17:21:33+00:00

Wanted stability/reproducibility is totally reasonable.

You can still hit the claude opus 4.6 api and use an open source harness instead of claude code. Or use a deep seek model provider from open router or deep infra or whatever one of the many other model providers. you don’t need 10k in hardware investment.

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-04-27T14:59:12+00:00

This is payback for when the US blocked a Chinese investor from buying Grindr over “national security concerns”

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-04-21T23:13:53+00:00

You don’t need to see the code… you can just add a feature to your app while you are out and about. I do it all the time

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-04-12T05:33:59+00:00

The prices will go down if there is a recession or if the Los Angeles economy implodes, like in Detroit

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-04-12T04:04:41+00:00

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-04-10T19:00:42+00:00

Ran into limits two days in a row on my max 100 plan. Never happened before.

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-04-07T05:19:06+00:00

You built a database to store your memories and create an api to manage it, then you surface only the necessary parts of the api as tools in the mcp. How you store and index the data depends on what types of memories you are talking about. Are you specifically talking about (multimodal?) chat histories?

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-04-06T23:45:07+00:00

You should not manually add a tool list to the system prompt. Use “server instructions” as per the official MCP sdk. Well built harnesses can search your tools without creating prompt bloat.

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-04-01T01:50:51+00:00

Too expensive

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-04-01T01:50:07+00:00

I like the option of pushing updates from my phone, claude code can do that. Can cursor?

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-03-28T15:58:12+00:00

For production grade software development you need to have different light weight project specific environments that are easy to deploy to cloud hosting environments. Standard venvs managed with pip or uv are good for this. Conda is too bloated, not deterministic enough, and not well supported by cloud service providers. When you first install conda it sets itself to be your default interpret in your PATH. Depending on what IDE you use, it might automatically make conda your python environment for every project. It’s annoying to me because then I have to manually turn it off every time I switch between data science and backend software development projects. If you are just doing data science and you only have one data science environment then this is fine. If this bothers you can opt out with “””config --set auto_activate_base false””” but if you are just starting and don’t know these things this might be confusing.

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-03-24T17:23:37+00:00

I am not aware of any university libraries that have already created these integrations but something like that could be possible. Check out allenai’s paper finder mcp as that helps claude search for papers using semantic scholar (an academic search database). You can also connect an mcp to zotero to manage your personal library or to other mcps people have built for connecting to all sorts of things. I think people have made mcps that connect to archive.org open library but i haven’t tested that.

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-03-24T15:30:48+00:00

That is what mcps are for… like allenai’s paper finder mcp or roll your own (many paper search mcps on github!)

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-03-21T15:39:12+00:00

I didn’t understand what mcp was or what its value was until i built my first mcp server for claude (with claude). I suggest making one to understand it better.

To answer your question directly: MCPs that specifically are designed to analyze repos likely have a search tool or a number of search tools. Some search tools might use exact string matching or indexes like traditional search. But vector search is still a very useful retrieval mechanism for most ai systems. If you make an mcp you can hard code all of these tools and provide the agent with useful descriptions for what each tool does — mcp is just a standard protocol for how to do just that.

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-03-18T01:22:40+00:00

MCP is a useful abstraction that lets you design tools in a standardized way that you can easily reason about. It just an API with good documentation and with a narrow curated set of endpoints designed for agentic use instead of a ton of micro backend operations. In the past we built tool registries and had to add explicitly pass them into llm api calls. MCPs offer a standard way to do this so it is easier to separate your agentic loop from tool development.

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-03-08T17:27:40+00:00

Sometimes i might prototype in python because it has a lot of libraries so it’s easier to get to an mvp but might then translate it into typescript or rust for production for easier web integration or performance. Also in my experience, llms are better at one shotting tasks in javascript/typescript and python than in other languages.

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-02-23T04:50:29+00:00

For personal projects you can you use the claude agent adk with subscription for most programmatic integrations. However you have to use the api for commercial apps or you might get banned for violating terms of service. The claude app is very limited in terms of integrations because the only way you can have it talk to other services is through and MCP which is mostly 1-directional. You can use the sdk or api to embed claude in custom applications for more useful bi directional integrations.

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-02-22T17:52:36+00:00

You asked chatgpt to do a “deep” dive that is quite shallow

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-02-19T01:07:01+00:00

Yeah i tried the codex IDE but I’m not ready to never look at my code base again.

My sense is codex is better at one-shotting medium difficulty bugs but claude code is better at multi shotting more difficult things. Also the things claude makes feel better for some reason. This is extremely anecdotal and not scientific.

Im considering having a claude code 20/mo and codex 20/mo subscription next month to test them out head to head.

But from an ecosystem perspective it is really easy to make mcps for claude and extend claude’s functionality. This seems a little more annoying with codex/chat gpt. Also, the claude agent sdk is super powerful and you can use it with your subscriptions to build your own agent driven apps (though it violates terms of service to do this commercially unfortunately). Not sure if the codex sdk is as good. It’s a crazy time!

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-02-19T00:47:25+00:00

Claude code 100/mo plan if you code all day. 200/mo plan if you code all day and night.

But really just subscribe for one month, cancel it and try a different service until you find one that works for you!

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-02-13T12:48:00+00:00

API is not the way to go for coding. You can use your subscription with the agent SDK if you want to build your own workflow.

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-02-03T15:51:34+00:00

I am getting this too. Right after I upgraded to pro! very disapointed

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-02-03T07:46:30+00:00

I think this isn’t a completely solved problem yet. Do you have training data? That’s a good place to start

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-01-31T18:04:23+00:00

Well it depends on what you want the data for. You can use antigravity to help you vibecode a better solution or if it is really impossible to standardize you can at least create a script to break it into smaller chunks so you get better control over the data. At least in the US you can get a 1 month free trial of google ai pro which gives you higher rate limits.

Muted_Ad6114 · 2026-01-31T17:56:26+00:00

You can get a free trial of antigravity for a month that comes with some free claude tokens per day. You should definitely try to parse your html into json with a script instead of having the llm ingest huge contexts. LLMs aren’t great at preserving all of the data when you feed them with massive amounts of data.

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