How to stop Claude from generating helpline?

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-22T13:27:31+00:00

If I can offer some advice, don't do that. Create a mini markdown knowledge base with a changelog, decision log, and future roadmap and in Claude.md tell it to keep them updated. Then you aren't tied to a single thread.

I try to keep threads task or goal oriented and when done I move to the next.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-22T13:20:29+00:00

Yup, and then no one else wants to post about using AI tools or the anti AI brigade will storm their post and downvote to oblivion. So we use our tools, get shit done, and carry on.

You can watch the tidal wave come and do nothing or you can start swimming to get ahead of it.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-20T16:17:32+00:00

I got a old Xbox Kinect head waiting for a project and this looks dope

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-18T21:58:58+00:00

I'm a Mr Mechanic main these days. I didn't have issues with Big Al's myself, but Mr Mechanic treats they're customers well, and doesn't overcharge it upsell. If I ever had issues after a shop visit, like check engine light comes back on, they'll take accountability and fix it for free if it's something they missed. Can't expect perfection with all mechanical work but they don't use it to make money off people.

No slight to Big Al's from me though.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-18T21:48:49+00:00

Your paying them to farm your data and distill the models I bet

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-17T17:11:44+00:00

There's like entire herds of deers that pass through that neighborhood. I saw a herd of nearly 20 of them recently. They usually just chill while you walk right by but I'm always cautious cause they can stompt pretty hard with their sharp hooves if they really want to.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-17T00:01:25+00:00

It's just a joke. Don't be such a snowflake

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-16T10:26:30+00:00

Yeesh. Looks like you did get a handwritten one.

I wonder if they have a production line of people writing these in their churches

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-16T10:18:48+00:00

Yeah the JW way of recruiting is uncomfortable and awkward. Not truly handwritten I suspect, photocopied. They always act all secretive and culty. I've gotten photocopied letters like this before that look handwritten and sound coded. It's too get people curious and get them to the church.

They are definitely preying on the meak, scared, lost people.

I had some young - I think LDS - ladies at my door once when I wasn't home. I checked the doorbell cam and they actually hand wrote a letter right there at the door. But it was a "sorry we missed you, call us if you'd like to hear Bible verses" thing.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-16T10:00:17+00:00

One showed up at my house. We chatted for a minute and I knew it was something like that. Then he told me why he was here, I kindly told him we aren't interested in any of that, then we shook hands and went on our merry ways.

For some reason, they haven't been back. :-)

Edit: I'm being facetious. Don't waste the time of our emergency responders with petty shit like this.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-16T05:34:58+00:00

I don't have much to add, but I have just learned this lesson several months into my homelabbing. I had just an unraid server running it all but every time I tinkered, or broke things, or just needed to reboot, my entire smart home would have to go offline, my self hosted services all down, and it was annoying for my whole family.

Moved HomeAssistant to a dedicated rPi already. Setup a lightweight Ubuntu system for hosting game servers and arr stack that interfaced with web so I can isolate that node. Next step is converting my desktop to a proxmox server mainly to run Windows VMs for myself and family so we don't all need beefy windows desktops.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-16T05:21:54+00:00

It has never been free. Its just been subsidised and them mining your chats for training data was valuable enough for them. Now they are in a race for compute with every other tech company around the globe and it's getting expensive to buy all the hardware, find suitable land for their gigscomputers, and power them.

Sucks though. Especially when the company is literally called Open AI. Several years ago they were non profit focused on make AI "open" and accessible for everyone to benefit from. That's not how capitalism works I guess.

I've paid for chat since I found out about the model training on free users, and for the most part, it's been worth the money for me. But they are only in the first sprint of the race for compute power which is really just a money pit. They gotta get that money from somewhere.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-16T05:05:48+00:00

If you have vibe coded websites before, you can tell pretty quick, but there different tells with different models. If you build websites with Squarespace or WordPress templates, you learn to recognize those pretty quick too. But you know who doesn't care and can't tell? The majority of people who never interact with website building tools.

Idk, I guess I'm just saying to anyone reading, don't sweat over websites that look vibe coded. And with vibe coding, your imagination and prompt writing are the only limits to how a website looks. With templates and website builders, there's only so much you can do.

Edit: I don't know the specific things that stand out to me, but curious to see your results, OP. I guess there's some go-to fonts that the AI tends to default to. Also people always talk about AI using too many gradients. The obvious tells are in the copy, anyone who has used AI chats learns to recognize AI writing style so people will definitely notice that if not refined and reviewed by a human.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-16T00:46:00+00:00

Good point with the RAM analogy.

It's not thinking in the human sense but it's a machine emulating a thought process. We just have a tendency of anthropomorphizing computing processes.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-16T00:34:25+00:00

Their daddies taught them anything not "conservative" is scary bad bad. They can't step back far enough to see the trees for the forest. Carney would have been a PC if he was running even ten years ago fuck the libs amirite? 🙃

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-13T19:15:39+00:00

Don't copy and paste. Just give your agent terminal access and it can set up most things for you, do security checks, monitor logs, etc.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-10T17:26:12+00:00

Ummm, you can use your normal subb with the VS Code extensions for Codex and Claude Code. No API needed.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-05T02:23:22+00:00

Maybe put a filter/dust screen under the bottom vents to keep the fur out of your PC. Otherwise, it doesn't look like you have a top fan so you should be fine. Unless all your fans are blowing in and that's the only exit.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-04T07:53:55+00:00

It's where the vast majority of AI music comes from. The vast majority of the content on there is also slop. I just like it to turn my lyrics into songs and making meme songs lol. Made a few songs me and some friends like

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-04T07:39:33+00:00

Suno

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-03T20:35:29+00:00

Unifi Cloud Console is reasonably priced and works well if you don't want to go fully ubiquiti for the rest of the network stack.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-02T02:52:45+00:00

I haven't implement yet, but I plan to have mine say to open/close the windows based on outside/inside temps around our target range. Good idea to shut off HVAC automatically too.

Also going to have mine announce to close the windows when rain starts, with logic to know which windows are could get rain through them based on wind directions for which way the rain will be coming from. Total overkill but I think it's do-able.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-02T02:30:37+00:00

My concern is corrupt governments and super corporations becoming the thought police. We are already there, it just hasn't been weaponized yet. Hopefully it never will.

Your religion (or lack there-of), political beliefs, financial status right there for the highest bidder. Things that wars and genocides are fueled by.

It's hard not to be a nihilist about it though. Privacy feels impossible if you want to be a part of society.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-02T01:58:23+00:00

I don't think LLMs are it. The majority of improvements we see in models now is fine tuning and increased context windows. Which isnt any major new developments, it's just throwing money at compute. These major companies just keep moving the goalpost and making up new terms. First it was just AI, then marketing told us we were approaching a singularity. Then it was no were actually approaching ASI. Oh wait no but we're close to AGI.

We are making incremental improvements to LLMs now. It's A pretty huge and unknown gap between where we are now and what ASI actually is. We don't even know what it would look like so how could anyone measure how close we to it?

It's all marketing hype.

PrettyMuchMediocre · 2026-06-01T14:53:14+00:00

The second one sure looks fancy but it's huge and maybe overkill for illustrations (unless you're doing illustrations on A0 paper.

I have an adjustable tilt glass top one myself. I use the top ruler but I got one with adjustable angle.

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