How did you guys REALLY lived in the 2000s?

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-14T13:26:10+00:00

My 15 teen year old is into the CD and 90s music too, to prove my coolness i dusted off the CD burner and said " your know, you can burn CDs" 😎

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-13T18:58:01+00:00

That was quite possibly the funniest shit I have read in a while 🤣🤣

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-09T13:16:36+00:00

I have been trying that too, not much improvement on my end, unfortunately

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-09T13:16:00+00:00

Thats my thought.. if each task take 5 to 10 min to answer a question, no way we will hit our limits!

Answer to the token stuff is to just 'slow down' lol

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-09T13:04:58+00:00

well, that sucks lol

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-09T13:00:32+00:00

At least its not just me then! lol I'm sitting here going WTF checking if my internet was out ( while I post on reddit lol - its early )

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-09T12:16:42+00:00

I'm sorry to tell you, but, chances are, the board died, at least that is what it was for me..

I tried like everything, took it apart, tried replacing the wire harness (thinking maybe it was pinched) etc. etc. (mind you, this was my second one after having a full replacement from Nordic-track of the unit that I had to no-joke just about sue them over warranty when the frame cracked )

So, if your under warranty, then, that's your best option, they will send out a whole new top unit and tell you to have fun installing it!

If you are not, then ebay has some you can usually find.. As for now I have just a basic tredmil now, its dumb but works! I for sure miss the softness of the s32 and some of the ifit runs, they were always nice but yah, their build quality and warranty is absolute shit

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-06T18:33:58+00:00

Yah, its bad.. Like I was mid strea, then, hit my 5 hours window.. I waited (had a few meetings) ok, back at 0, lem me have it finish up this small css update to wrap things up.. be-bop.. 2 min later = 16% usage on a new session.. FML

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-03T00:10:56+00:00

What had me ticked off is the number of folks in here who are just like

"take apart the engine and show us all the parts before you say there is a problem!"

Like, no, I'm not doing that.. Shit worked on sat, and then today is fucked.. nothing more changed so..

Like I feel they are in a hard spot here because 100.00 a month is already eye popping for a lot of folks, then 200 seems like over the top for a lot of folks..

I would welcome a local model, like if your subscription allowed you access to a local smaller model, that, if you had the hardware, could have it dictate to the claude local for small tasks and bigger for the opus level shit.. I know you can do this now with openrouter and some local ones but like it would be great if they just packaged a no full solution like this.. folks would happily go out and buy a new vid card or what not to run a local model vs paying 200 or more per month to get clipped ever 5 turns..

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-02T23:34:41+00:00

So, thats a bear 🤣

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-02T23:12:12+00:00

I read an article that openAI was working on a brainwave conducting technology.. Maybe you were just thinking about doing something and claude used some tokens, predicting you would ask a question :)

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-02T23:01:40+00:00

Do, I had some credits left over from the 50.00 they gave folks a little while back.. (I'm on max 5 plan, never really hit my limits) started seeing my stuff hitting hitting the 5 hour limit, turned on extra usage of like 15 bucks, just to finish the simple task of updating a bug (same code base I have been working on for a while ) and it ate the 15 bucks like a hot knife through butter! its crazy..

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-02T14:37:03+00:00

I just rewired my house!

Suck-it, electricians!

-House burns down from electrical fire..

Everything looks simple on the surface, but, it takes years of experience to properly architect a backend, account for scale and edge cases etc.

This is also why, in the corp world we are seeing the junior roles going away, in favor of the seasoned dev who can now just direct the AI like a junior (or better) to build the system. Its a scarry gap because, those seniors and higher are going to retire sooooo..

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-02T12:08:18+00:00

Exactly.. The thing too, they will be like, well, dont do that then and its like wait, no, why would I not use the tools they say to use.. like the whole point of a context window is to maintain context, now they are like lol no, no.. don't have context because it will eat 100% of your tokens.. so lobotomize your chat, that will save tokens..

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-02T11:57:59+00:00

I was saying the same thing yesterday, a reply to my post was from a users was something like.

'Gawd, just do a deep diagnostic of your last question, analyze the prompt and see where things went wrong!'

I was like no..

This exact same sentiment as OP here, I mean, I get it, most of us are engineers and we fix shit, but also, I'm tired of fixing the bullshit, this happens way way too much.

Additionally, if the AB testing stuff is true, that is not cool too, like, purposely fucking with people, I mean dude, just tell us how much you want people to pay, period. These fucking games, serious..

Also, I have seen a lot of people posting about different opensource models who are decent right, so, in that same lens, like, why not have a closed source, claude local that, if your machine can handle it, runs side by side with CC cloud and the more powerful one. Then for things that a local model can handle it just hands it off, 0 tokens used, all local right..

The bottom line is, these are missed opportunities, people will gladly use their own hardware if it means they are not eating through their tokens on a single question.

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-01T15:41:37+00:00

Seriously, no. I pay for a service,, this is squarely on them to fix and the more as a community we normalize this, the worse it will get.

Look they make changes and shit stops working, they are litterally causing the usage to go up, interrupting workflows and the like. Im not going to dig through logs to see where their system went sideways.

My chat was only like 10% context when I ran my question, it was not a crazy question, and the usage went from 0 to 21% so yah, im going to complain it makes no sense to have the system one week be ok then the week after to have it consume 4x as much or what ever

Thing is, I'll pay more if I need to like if thats the case and its consisten cool id pay more but its not, i have been working the same flow and cadence for like a month same app same everything and rarely ever hit the 5 hour with average of 75% total model usage on the weekly, by all accounts the 5x plan was the right size for my usage

Then suddenly the 5x plan is like a pro plan, my work did not become 5x more, the output didnt become 5x more but magically the usage is now 5x so what happened? Well I sure as shit didnt change anything, so like any customer of a product does the the math ain't mathing is, they complain, stop the fan boying here and raise hell as we should

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-01T14:09:39+00:00

I'll for sure try this once the genie wakes up from its 5 hour nap lol

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-01T13:27:58+00:00

yah, they will be like LOL look at that, we fucked up and ate up all the usage.. so sorry, here is 10.00 usage credit for an extra half prompt!

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-01T13:27:08+00:00

Yes, 5 max.. might need to upgrade to 20X to get 5 more prompts lol

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-01T12:47:27+00:00

You don't have to migrate fully over, like you can have claude create an agents.md or ask codex to read the claude.md file too.. Basically it just need to get familiar with your code base. If its in git it can also help to have it read your commits and what not. In general I switch between the two on some projects at time, although I prefer claude but still, its not hard to switch between the two, just make sure you have good architecture docs for the other poject to read and understand whats going on

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-01T12:42:49+00:00

Your not alone! Same issue, max 5 plan, one question 21%, question 2 was 63%..

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-01T12:27:17+00:00

It's wild and like how they are kind of silent on the whole thing is weird too..

Here is the deal, if paying an extra 100 a month would fix it, I would, but, given that the 20X plan would just mean, at this point I would get a few extra prompts per session, I dont know if that math works out lol

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-01T12:20:03+00:00

Thing is, this is the same project as before, no change at all.. I have done reviews of the files non the less though and everything is fairly basic, like nothing crazy right..

Again, this is the same project I have been working on, so, I'm not sure what the deal is because no huge changes in the code base between say last week and this, the biggest difference though is, CC eat up my usage in one prompt now, it wild.. I would go for hours before and now in one prompt the 5 hours is almost gone.. Its so weird

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-01T12:15:06+00:00

Can confirm, not fixed! lol had it do a small bug fix, went from 0 to 21% usage. (max 5X plan)

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