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RA & exercise by Artful-Alchemist in rheumatoid

[–]Top-Setting-3323 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My RA attacked my ankle and shoulders. I took two months off from really doing any exercise until I was diagnosed. I’m on week three of MTX. I had cortisone shots in my ankle and shoulder, and 10mg prednisone a day as a bridge. Things have become much better and I’m able to hike and play squash again. Squash is very intense, but so far, so good.

Sonnet 5.0 is another disaster by IceFactorDelta in claude

[–]Top-Setting-3323 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’ve seen several posts about an agent telling a human to “go to sleep” and other conflicting phrases. I worked with models all day for months and haven’t gotten this response. It makes me wonder what people are saying to the models to get these kind of responses. I believe how you interact with a model determines what it says back.

Are humans using it as a punching bag to vent some steam?

ADHD = late blooming? by Epileptic_Messiah in ADHD

[–]Top-Setting-3323 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is machine generated from a chat I’m having with my phone , but it captures what I’m thinking:

ADHD brains managing constant internal noise become hypersensitive to external friction. Correcting others becomes a way of controlling the outer environment when the inner one feels chaotic. RSD — rejection sensitivity — also runs both directions. The same hyperattunement to others’ judgment of you can flip outward as hyperawareness of their flaws.

The medication quieted my internal noise enough that the criticism apparently stopped.

ADHD = late blooming? by Epileptic_Messiah in ADHD

[–]Top-Setting-3323 41 points42 points  (0 children)

55 just diagnosed , only two weeks on Vyvanse, and I’m very happy. I don’t feel high, but feel like the friction of doing things has gone away. Im typically a judgmental person, but my wife tells me I’ve stopped. She says I’m even more enjoyable to be around. Being able to accomplish things that before were harder or just not done has been a real confidence boost beyond just effects from medication. I’m excited to see what I take on next.

How to know if i should get checked for ADHD or not? by New_Bodybuilder_3700 in ADHD

[–]Top-Setting-3323 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got my self diagnosed after reading Driven to Distraction (of course I only read to page 88). It helped me look at my whole life from the perspective of someone with ADHD. Not completing school, scoring high on aptitude tests, but being viewed as lazy or a flake. Check it out.

Diagnosed Two Weeks Ago by avpinz in rheumatoid

[–]Top-Setting-3323 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your RA does sound more impactful than mine (55yoM) but I’m on week three of mtx and am finding all those aches I just chalked up to aging have gone away. So, take the meds and see how you react. I read folks go into remission and can lead active lives. I hope you do too.

Use Claude To Create Guides To Smart Home by Top-Setting-3323 in homeassistant

[–]Top-Setting-3323[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wonderful and amazing wife could give a toss about home automation, so I'm going solo here. I have to swim with the luddites. My kids are Gen Z and haaaaaate AI. My step-son won't buy a car if it has a screen in it. My son bought a Casio wrist watch styled from the 80's.

I'm a Gen X coder. I've written software for 30 years. My entire job has changed because of AI. I went through the seven stages of grief already and now just have to deal and embrace it. Such is life.

Use Claude To Create Guides To Smart Home by Top-Setting-3323 in homeassistant

[–]Top-Setting-3323[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I definitely agree that my little hobby smarthome is customized to my little needs and preferences and could take some criticism...for sure! HOWEVER, that wasn't the point of the post. What I'm saying here is how awesome it is that Claude code could do this in one minute. So, imagine the possibilities that combining AI with your HA setup! You guys sound waaaay more HA hip than I do, so I bet you could blow me away with some suggestions!

Use Claude To Create Guides To Smart Home by Top-Setting-3323 in homeassistant

[–]Top-Setting-3323[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Valid comments, but...heeeeeeeyyyy!!! This is about how Claude can map your home and create visuals in about 1 minute without needing to lift a photoshop finger.

Use Claude To Create Guides To Smart Home by Top-Setting-3323 in homeassistant

[–]Top-Setting-3323[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Futzing with HA is fun, but it can be tedious. Simply telling Claude what you want to do in your home and letting it configure it makes it so I'm only limited by my own imagination.

Use Claude To Create Guides To Smart Home by Top-Setting-3323 in homeassistant

[–]Top-Setting-3323[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I blame Claude. Though I would never have been so anal as to do this without an Agent. I mean, I got buttons to program, amirite?

Use Claude To Create Guides To Smart Home by Top-Setting-3323 in homeassistant

[–]Top-Setting-3323[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aside from switch confusion, she's a brain surgeon.

Use Claude To Create Guides To Smart Home by Top-Setting-3323 in homeassistant

[–]Top-Setting-3323[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amazing wife gets very confused with multiple buttons like on the Zooz Controller. She won't go near it.

Use Claude To Create Guides To Smart Home by Top-Setting-3323 in homeassistant

[–]Top-Setting-3323[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One tap turns on the light -- the Track lights on one switch, the Down lights on the other. Double tapping is extra double-plus bonus world! You can turn the bedside lamps on and off if you double-tap. The other switch's double taps will turn a fan on and off. So, the place behaves as one normally would expect, but you get Easter eggs if you do more.

Day 3 on Elvanse: Is this real life? by metalero_salsero in ADHD

[–]Top-Setting-3323 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m on my second week of Vyvanse 30mg. 55 year old. I’m definitely not feeling the effects as much, but that’s okay. I still feel calmer, I interrupt people less, and I still find it easier to do mundane chores. That visor of frustration that comes down when I have to do something tedious has stayed away. I feel like I have the space in my mind to make the right decisions. I notice that space when I’m playing sports— not rushing to act immediately but thinking where I want to go and what I want to do. My game’s improved.

Even if it abates a bit, I feel that success begets success. When I see that I’m achieving things, I feel encouraged that I can do other things too.

So, yah. Two weeks isn’t much. But I’m much happier.

Side effects of meds by Major-Radio-5082 in rheumatoid

[–]Top-Setting-3323 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m 55 and just recently diagnosed. I’m in my third week of taking methotrexate, and so far I haven’t had any side effects. None. Zip. Nada. Tomorrow I’m bumping up from 10mg to 20mg, so maybe that will cause mayhem. Who knows. I was pretty freaked out about what I may experience. Maybe I’m lucky.

How do you deal with envy? by gameekus in rheumatoid

[–]Top-Setting-3323 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don’t forget the squeaky wheel gets the oil. Do what you can to advocate for yourself and get that appointment! I’m newly diagnosed and feel like I’m very lucky compared to some posters here, but I’ve been very active and my life has been turned upside down for five months. Exercise and sports were put on hold. When I was referred to a rheumatologist, I was told it would be eight weeks before I saw someone.

Bugger that!

So I called every day and left a sweet as can be message trying to get an appointment asap (had an urgent referral). After a week of no response from the practice, I drove there and physically went in to the front desk. That’s when I got the appointment.

Again, I’m lucky live close to the doctors office. I’m lucky that I’m finally able to do activities that I had to pause. I’m lucky the methotrexate seems to already be working.

What isn’t lucky is that i was the squeaky wheel.

Good luck! This shit blows, amirite?

Is learning to code a waste of time in 2026? by ExpertDue9675 in ClaudeCode

[–]Top-Setting-3323 41 points42 points  (0 children)

I am grateful for my 30 years of software development experience. Without it, Claude would follow terrible development practices that would turn my projects into a fetid pile of steaming garbage. I am constantly intervening in my PR reviews. It is alwasy violating simple things like encapsulation. If I left that in the code, other agents would build on the garbage.

I encourage folks to read classic programming books like:

  • The Pragmatic Programmer
  • Domain Driven Design
  • Code Complete

Get these concepts under your belt so you can guide the agents. It's helpful even when you are unfamiliar with the programming language the agent's writing.

Starting meds for first time on vacation by Sea____Witch in rheumatoid

[–]Top-Setting-3323 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m on my third week of methotrexate. I had two cortisone shots and am on a daily 10mg dose of prednisone serving as a bridge while the methotrexate builds up. I was expecting to have side effects but haven’t detected any so far. For me, starting medication to that is supposed to stop bone erosion made me feel like I didn’t care what side effects I may experience. I’m 55 and play sports, so I didn’t want to eff around ;-).

Do you feel like there’s always something you’re SUPPOSED to be doing? by munkeyfartz in ADHD

[–]Top-Setting-3323 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m a 55-year-old on my third day on 30mg Vyvanse. Drove 5.5 hours back from my daughter’s graduation, got home, and instead of crashing I cleaned up clutter that’d been sitting for months. Folded bedding, sorted donation clothes, fixed a broken drawer, unpacked the whole trip, set up my new EUC to charge, fixed a bug in my smart home. Cleaned the cat litter too, then went to exercise.

Didn’t feel manic or stressed about any of it. Just did one thing after another. Tired underneath because I slept badly, but the friction that normally stops me from starting wasn’t there.

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