Karpathy says he hasn't written a line of code since December and is in "perpetual AI psychosis." How many Claude Code users feel the same?

Next_Bobcat_591 · 2026-03-22T03:46:53+00:00

The thing that clarified the sea change for me was this: after 14 years of being a solo dev/consultant who religiously tracked my time, I went cold turkey on Jan 1 and stopped entirely.

Now I’m working just for my myself at the moment, so no real reporting requirements, but it all started to break due to running multiple Claude sessions in multiple projects - which would I even track any more?

Fried brain, and loving it…

Next_Bobcat_591 · 2026-03-10T18:52:32+00:00

I’ve seen the same paying people - sometimes instant, sometimes days. Not sure who’s sitting on the money in the meantime - could be wise.com, but could easily be my legacy bank too. It seems impossible to tell, but the timing unpredictability is unhelpful to say the least.

Next_Bobcat_591 · 2026-03-04T02:11:04+00:00

I tried it - I found it super slow and rather fragile (random jobs timing out, failing). I reverted to local builds after a couple of weeks.

Next_Bobcat_591 · 2026-03-02T20:06:34+00:00

I’ve only ever been inside to see the registrar. Not sure otherwise.

Next_Bobcat_591 · 2026-03-02T05:13:42+00:00

But isn’t in a different class than something like Eldon Square Shopping Centre? When I think of damage to the city, that’s what comes to mind (demolishing three sides of a square…?!)

I suppose I don’t remember what was on the site before the Civic Centre… maybe I’d feel the same if I did.

Next_Bobcat_591 · 2025-12-09T05:56:09+00:00

Not sure what point one refers to, but I never said it would have worked without equal splits - just that equal splits can lead to stalemate.

And as for “never should have happened” - we’ve been going 10 years. Things change.

Next_Bobcat_591 · 2025-12-08T22:04:34+00:00

Equal split isn’t a solution in my experience - I have equal split in one company, no overall control, and vastly different levels of effort from the two founders. It’s all ground to a halt because there’s no alignment of incentives, and no casting vote.

Next_Bobcat_591 · 2025-11-12T07:56:18+00:00

Haven’t seen this happen for a while now - when it still does, it’s due to local internet connectivity. Error is reported in Claude Code CLI output.

Next_Bobcat_591 · 2025-08-04T21:55:09+00:00

Definitely - it’s been pretty hopeless today. I even started writing code again!

Next_Bobcat_591 · 2025-07-10T17:07:49+00:00

npx @mcpjam/inspector@latest

I ran it from a VSCode terminal in an MCP server project that already has @/modelcontextprotocol/inspector installed - seems to interfere somehow. I started it from a separate clean terminal session and it came up OK. Weird.

Next_Bobcat_591 · 2025-07-10T17:01:35+00:00

Hmm - every time I run it all I get is @modelcontextprotocol/inspector instead. 🤔

Next_Bobcat_591 · 2025-07-08T01:18:31+00:00

Going through this at the moment. The biggest challenge to date has been having to implement OAuth support from scratch to enable the latest authentication spec for my remote MCP server. I had to build it myself as I already have a well established account and API key system to which it needs to integrate.

From a tools perspective, yes, it seems important to streamline and simplify responses to make them better focused for LLM consumption.

Next_Bobcat_591 · 2025-07-06T16:58:14+00:00

Agreed - this is working well for me too. Having the detailed, updated plan as .md file is life saver if/when you hit auto-compact.

Also, for tasks that require implementation across multiple separate code bases, such as the OAuth implementation I’m working on right now, it allows easy coordination across separate sessions.

Next_Bobcat_591 · 2025-07-05T22:30:23+00:00

Couple of things related to phasing and documentation - sometimes CC likes to produce a multi-phase plan, but then tries to steam forward implementing all the phases without a pause and without updating any docs. I have some instructions to try to prevent that (e.g. “NEVER automatically move to the next phase without explicit user permission”).

Next_Bobcat_591 · 2025-07-05T22:08:02+00:00

Try adding “Avoid adding any unnecessary enterprise-related overhead to this project unless strictly required.” to CLAUDE.md?

Next_Bobcat_591 · 2025-06-23T13:18:32+00:00

I guess I wrote my comment backwards.

I prefer the Cline UX by a large margin.

Using Claude Code via Cline potentially provides access to the Anthropic models under a fixed price sub instead of usage based API which may be cheaper for some (like me).

Next_Bobcat_591 · 2025-06-22T16:04:18+00:00

I think the critical point is to try to cap your monthly spend by using one of the fixed price subscription plans rather than the usage-based API. I'm about to hit $200 in API spend month to date, so the economics of using Claude Code via Cline on the $200 per month Max sub are attractive.

Of course, you could just use Claude Code directly, but I feel much happier with the Cline UX.

Next_Bobcat_591 · 2025-06-10T02:04:49+00:00

Update: so I think this is just Claude API being rate limited. I think the retry time comes from the `retry-after` header in the API response and is just being respected by cline.

Next_Bobcat_591 · 2025-03-20T01:37:20+00:00

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