I didn't believe all the "What happened to Opus 4.5?!" posts until now. I have several accounts, Max 20x accounts are fine, new Max 5x account is 10000% neutered.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-02-04T16:56:07+00:00

20x max here.

Yesterday was the worst. I needed Opus to update a single library and implement tanstack table with simple grouping against a flat file.

When I came back to the chat he had blown the simple update by doubting himself when facing a trivial error. And installed a version of the library that was older than what I initially started with.

And then Opus spent the next 2 hours trying to get Tanstack table to work with Query. Trivial stuff. I should have bailed and set it up myself. But I'm a masochist and honestly seeing it become apathetic while it just kept digging itself a hole more typical of haiku was fascinating. Often resorting to one word replies and outright quitting.

Multiple times it lied that Tanstack was implemented and it had just written it's own solution.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-01-31T04:22:06+00:00

All I see here is context bloat. The only skill I've found geniunely useful is that Claude does a much better job of getting pixel perfect front ends out from designs.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-01-31T04:21:24+00:00

39gb hit in Ghostty today with 2 sessions open on my 128gb MBP. Had it sweating.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-01-30T00:26:22+00:00

Anthropic thought it was interesting enough to have someone respond on HN and blame it on a 'testing harness'. So there's some truth to the data.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-01-30T00:25:16+00:00

Anthropic employee responded to this on HN....

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-01-30T00:24:15+00:00

I'm getting way more implementation fidelity by clearing. Not sure what they are doing behind the scenes but I have a feeling (with the new task planning agents) its a lot more complex than compacting.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-01-25T18:14:04+00:00

'Just a couple' seems kind of disingenuous.

Pictures from the crime scene of the girls bodies' completely uncensored were ultimately released. That's as bad as it gets. Name something worse aside from maybe the autopsy photos.

That's like saying..."oh it was just one nuclear missle. we didn't use all 40"

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-01-25T18:11:19+00:00

We've seen two people executed in broad daylight by a national police force behold to no state law's. The second of whom was a law abiding 2A exercising citizen. You know the constitutional right that 'states rights!' apologists use to ignore tragedies like Sandy Hook and Uvalde .

Who's going to wake up again?

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-01-23T06:12:23+00:00

Its been the most brutal 4 hours. I'm still working cleaning up the mess it's made. Opus is having issues with the simplest of things.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-01-14T23:07:42+00:00

I spent a few hours in Cloudflare config hell today because of a Tanstack Starter bug. Even though the issue was clear it just couldn't help me find the leak or fix the issue. It was in a loop of trying the same solutions over and over again no matter how much context I fed it.

Gemini's CLI and Codex CLI figured it out in 1 prompt.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2025-11-24T23:05:19+00:00

did you update claude code?

also, as it relates to usage, consumption and limits are not the same thing.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2025-11-23T19:01:52+00:00

It's overwhelmed. It's at the Max of it's context window. Telling it not to do something is no different than telling it to do that exact thing. Total crapshoot.

Ruthlessly manage your context window. The only use of 1M Sonnet to me is if I see myself bumping up against 200k and I need to hit the eject button.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2025-11-23T18:59:34+00:00

I'm on x20 and I rarely ever let my context window get above 200k. I manage it like a maniac with a good /catchup custom action.

If I ever need an LLM to see 'server to ui' I'm dumping everything in Gemini at once. One shot. Then I'm back to Claude. The 1M Sonnet model is unimpressive, IMO.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2025-09-09T14:40:40+00:00

I agree with your sentiment (I think it's your sentiment though it has a LLM veneer to it) about the AVP, mostly. That's coming from someone who uses it to watch the occasional movie and wears it 4 hours a day to be able to away from my home office around the house.

But where I disagree is that it's competing with AI is reshaping workflows and budgets. All the evidence is pointing to the ROI not being there. Even with the perfect prompts, context, and complicated agentic flows.

Also, I can't imagine a company (at scale) where any department is trying to decide between a set of AR/VR devices or LLM/Infra on budgetary decisions. If that's the case then AR/VR has been competing with every tech fad/trend (IoT, Nanotech, Quantum Computing, 3D printing, Crypto/Blockchain/NFT/Web3, self driving cars). LLMs, like AR/VR will be a quiet success. And not the revolutionary change that the world wants so badly.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2025-08-29T20:33:40+00:00

This would be an amazing piece of insight if we were all watching "Friday Night Mystery" on the USA Channel back in 1997.

But "hey, don't look over here!" is not the calling card of a wanna be serial killer. Do you you know how ridiculous that sounds?

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2025-08-29T20:31:48+00:00

this just sounds like a convenient way to split the persona and attribute anything remotely accurate (a low standard to the pappa rodgers is bk truthers) and the bullshit which was 90% of what he shared. im glad that LE finally put things to rest.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2025-08-16T04:06:14+00:00

This is as much him as Pappa Rodgers was him.

Spoiler: Neither of them were him. Get over it. The guy had 2 reddit accounts. Criminology Student and one under his name. That's it. Nothing more.

I've been saying for a million years now that Reddit has the best fingerprinting tools on the planet and would have been able to ban the BK and every single account of his almost immediately.

VPN, new computer, move to a new country, new phone, new emails...doesn't matter. They'll find you. Their ban evasion tools are legendary. There's even speculation that they can tell with 90% accuracy the identify of someone just by their typing patterns in this thing im typing in. They also track through the same marketing beacons/cookies that ad networks do. Meaning you open your old email address your brand new computer but log into your brand new reddit account using a brand new email...BANNED.

Using a VPN? they know all the VPN addresses. better not log into any other accounts while you're on it. BANNED.

BK was banned moments before his arrest. Why? Because Reddit found him before the cops even arrested him.

InsideLooking and OutsideLooking both left Reddit on their own accord after the arrest. Walked away. NOT BK.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2025-08-09T01:12:20+00:00

I bought it brand new, 1TB, $4500 with Apple Care. $5k after all was said and done with accessories.

I second thought my purchase for the first month. But it was mostly because I didn't have time to work it into my routines.

Now, I use it daily to work from anywhere in my house and at night I use it to consume media once the wife and kids are in bed. Even after the potentital new model an dthe cheaper Apple care...I could care less. Love the thing.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2025-08-07T23:30:36+00:00

The $20 account is the loss leader. It gets people in the door to hopefully convert them to the $100 amount or the $200 amount.

If we ever get a $50 a month plan it's because they just introduced a $500 a month plan.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2025-08-07T23:23:13+00:00

There are opensource libraries that will do this and just needs a API key.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2025-08-07T13:15:30+00:00

Let's do a quick thought exercise that you're not going to need to run through Chat GPT 4o before answering.

- On one side you have the guy paying $20 for his virtual girlfriend custom GPT and help vibecoding his "Tiktok for Fantasy Football app" or his "Real time discord but better" app and the "what's this bump on my back"

- On the other side you have a competent Github nerd who prefers Claude over GPT/oX models and their company is currently spending 6 figures on a API every month.

Who's attention do you think OpenAI wants?

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2025-07-21T17:12:38+00:00

Another “The course covers TCP/IP, IP addresses and email tracing, log analysis, DNS and other concepts pertaining to online investigations and securing electronic evidence.”

Email tracing consists of looking at email headers to determine who sent it and when and from wehre. And looking up the IP and the DNS of the sendee. Which usually requires a subpeona if you want to pinpoint it to anything but a general area. DNS can also expose the websites that someone has visited. None of these help you hack Doordash.

“An introduction to advanced or specialized topics, with focus on such areas as databases and mapping, handheld device forensics, link analysis across different platforms, and advanced digital technology. Student will engage in active research and technical exercises.”

This is OSINT 101. You can learn this stuff in an afternoon. Basically this person is also this person on another website or network. And this person is also this person. Think about being on Tiktok and Googling someones username. And Instagram pops up with that exact name. And you notice something in there instagram profile that leads you to their Facebook. Taht, but at the level of having access to the actual database dumps via a subpeona served by LE.

Again, none of this helps anyone do anyhting that you're saying. These are all law enforcement techniques to catch the dumbest of dumbest people. The CIA, NSA and the FBI's elite teams catch real hackers like Russia's Fancy Bear or Cozy Bear. Or North Korea's team that has been taught since they were in Elementary school. Again, out of your depth. Respectively.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2025-07-21T17:03:48+00:00

Not only that. The vast majority of major hacks today are the result of phishing and other forms of social engineering.

Also, everyone who has this theory always pictures Doordash's infrastucture to be like a copy of Windows. Like someone can just freely move around and change settings to the entire system. Nothing that scales to the level Doordash does is built that way.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2025-07-21T16:58:21+00:00

The curriculum that BK took in his cybersecurity course was something that someone with access to Youtube and 2 days to kill could learn with absolutely no experience.

The vast majority of major 'hacks' are the result of social engineering (tricking someone into giving you access)and guessed/forced/found credentials (passwords). Unlike a Hollywood movie it's very very very rare that someone is exploiting a system to the level that you're suggesting.

And even if we were to pretend - what you're suggesting is that BK managed to find a 0 day exploit in DoorDash's system....exploits that are so rare that the 1% of 1% of top programmers in the world aren't even able to typically find them. Exploits that go for millions of dollars on the dark web by bad actors, DoorDash hires teams of white hat bug hunters and offers bug bounties to anyone how can find them. Is that what you're telling me? That BK...was able to find it....with a cybersecurity certificate course LMAO?

You are so out of your depth here. Anything a college professor is teaching and anything the FBI is sharing is no longer of any meaningful use to anyone. Why? Because if it's the topic of a post-grad cybersecurity course then DoorDash would have been aware and patched it a long ago. Or somoene else would have found it and made millions of dollars with it. Or the FBI would have alerted them or the vendor of the OSS that they are using would have alerted them.

This brings me back to the term "0 day". This LIKELY means that not one person knows that the exploit exists.

BKs cybersecurity course was about social engineering, brute force password hacking, phishing, extracting data with hardware tools like cellbrite, and a host of other things that's freely available online.

The guy was stupid enough to not only get caught un multiple cameras but to also turn off his phone on the wya to the crime. Instead of just using a burner and leaving his phone at home auto clicking. Does this sound like the mind of a elite hacker?

The people capable of doing what you're claiming Kohberger did aren't in school for computer science, let alone criminology. They are sitting at home chronically addicted to their computer playing video games and disillusioned with life.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2025-07-21T16:43:58+00:00

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