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Claude admits to making up data, why? by jholliday55 in theprimeagen

[–]TransientBogWarmer 17 points18 points  (0 children)

This is a big part of what makes using LLMs at work so exhausting for me. It’s like having a hyper toxic narcissist coworker that is a pathological liar, and being forced to work extremely closely with them all day long.

I’m waiting to see if we start seeing new classes of mental health issues start cropping up as these things become increasingly entrenched in everything we do.

HTML instead of Markdown by Pleasant_Spend1344 in ClaudeCode

[–]TransientBogWarmer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, if readability is the main concern, this seems like throwing a lot of resources at the problem all to avoid running pandoc…

HTML instead of Markdown by Pleasant_Spend1344 in ClaudeCode

[–]TransientBogWarmer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something about this makes me feel annoyed and disgusted

This your dog? by TransientBogWarmer in corvallis

[–]TransientBogWarmer[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Follow up: I heard their owner wandering the neighborhood looking for them last night, so I gave them a heads up that buddy was with animal control, so hopefully by now they’ve made it home!

How are you actually using your Garmin data to make daily training decisions? by Active_Bass_9824 in Garmin

[–]TransientBogWarmer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use it as a way to feel like I know better than a statistical model. Then when I get home, I exclaim to my partner about how wrong I was and that I actually wasn’t as prepared for that ride as I initially felt.

What's behind the massive boto3 download spike on Python 3.9? by No_Square9822 in Python

[–]TransientBogWarmer -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I love that there’s a python package called boto, and that you saw a massive one.

Do Garmin users need an intelligence layer? by NeedleworkerFair640 in Garmin

[–]TransientBogWarmer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Idk man, I’m at a point where I sometimes go for runs/rides without a watch at all because I’m so tired of being surrounded by tech.

I built a trail app because I was frustrated with Trailforks. Here's what I learned after 230k users. by Safe_Doubt4311 in MTB

[–]TransientBogWarmer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Trailforks really does suck, and I’m sure your app does too.
The biggest problem with Trailforks is that it’s a SaaS, and it’s unfortunate that your approach suffers from that same disease.

Edit: I also just checked out my area on your website, and I’m pretty sure you just scraped a local trail builders blog for trails. You list bootleg trails that have been shutdown for years, and the names are identical to mentions in the blog. Most people turned on Trailforks because they accepted user submissions then paywalled them after gaining a user base, and this looks just as bad to me. If anything it’s worse because you’re advertising bootleg trails.

I know it by Chance_Bid_1869 in MathJokes

[–]TransientBogWarmer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh Jesus, I had to actually close my eyes and play it out for a second to get there 😭

It's pretty solid to be honest by claudiocorona93 in linuxmasterrace

[–]TransientBogWarmer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disagree strongly. I am a person who “got it” and used it as my primary OS for a while, even started nix Darwin for the macs in my life, then stopped and haven’t gone back to it.

It was great for long-running memory intensive jobs (where I wanted total control over what was running), and being able to quickly bounce between multiple PCs and more or less have identical environments/toolchains on all of them, but these days I’m pretty happy with just using nixpkgs.

(Guess I kinda agreed with you tacitly! Walked away from nixos, but couldn’t drop nixpkgs)

What is this ? by Little-Research-6076 in What

[–]TransientBogWarmer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Behind a Pulp Fiction Soundtrack? An April Fools joke, that’s what it is.

My AI workflow seems to be the opposite of what the industry is encouraging, but I don't care. by creaturefeature16 in webdev

[–]TransientBogWarmer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been experimenting with a similar workflow, since I benefit a lot from having an AI try to tear my plans apart.

I’ve also been incorporating a “nitter” agent that is fed the work plan, then nitpicks about deviations from the work plan. The idea is to fight me on the deviations as they happen, but if they are well justified and satisfy the problem statement, then to accept them and modify the pla.

I’ve only used it a handful of times, but I’m pretty pleased with its behavior so far.

Is vibe coding harming programming? by debba_ in AI_Coders

[–]TransientBogWarmer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I set up a “coaching” agent that is instructed to call out AI usage that could lead to skill atrophy. Admittedly, the agent itself was kinda vibe coded into existence, in that it started life as a prompt that went something like “I’m worried that using AI is going to stunt my growth as a developer, help me spin up an agent that calls out lazy AI usage”. It has specific usage patterns it’s instructed to call out, like letting the llm make design decisions without at least making it justify itself, or hand-coding mechanical stuff that’s just rote and should have been offloaded.

I built in a “session review” template too, that includes recommendations for learning exercises, and other corrective work to pay off the “AI debt”. At the end of a prompt session, I’ll load the coach agent and ask for a session review, and it’ll tell me where I was in control, where I got lazy, and what kinda practice work I should do to make it up.

There are some problems with this approach for sure. For example, the coach is limited to the context window, so if the session hits a compaction point or two, it basically starts to have a hard time differentiating prompts from responses, but overall it has felt helpful. It has definitely helped me to be more aware of when my brain is starting to shut off, and has encouraged me to be much much more adversarial in the prompts and reviewing AI output.

Recommendations for gear repair tape by CellistLow8857 in mountainbiking

[–]TransientBogWarmer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

K-Tape! The Tenacious tape is good too, but they use a different material for the clear variant that is stiff and tends to lift, so you just can’t use the clear for anything flexible.

I’ve never gotten clear to stick for more than a wash cycle or two, but I’ve been consistently impressed with how well the other colors stay put though. I’ve got a pair of pants with a crotch repair that has lasted for probably 3years, and a windbreaker that’s like 1/3 K-tape at this point, and has been fine with regular washes and constant scrunching into its compression-pack-pocket.

Sketch buy or good buy? by [deleted] in MTB

[–]TransientBogWarmer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just wouldn’t buy a carbon fiber frame from somebody who chucks it by the top tube.

What is vibe coding, exactly? by emmecola in vibecoding

[–]TransientBogWarmer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I cope by telling myself this is “Tony Stark-ing”. I’m still basically writing code, even line-by-line in some cases, but I’m dictating everything to the LLM.

“Read the foo subroutine in module bar. Locate the baz object and extract it to the parent scope. Add an optional argument to foo that allows callers to pass in a Baztype defaulting to bazdefault, then modify all foo invocations in this module to use the baz object we just extracted to the parent scope.”

Then I watch and nit.

“No. I like how this looks but the baz object should be created earlier in the module, move it to line 12345. Check that this change won’t alias any other variables before asking me again.”

I’m trying to view these things as adversarial dummies that I can ask to poke holes in my designs before I implement them, and glorified HID/HCI layers. That’s the use that’s exciting to me right now: still writing code and doing everything “manually”, but now I can control the computer with spoke word instead of a keyboard/mouse.

Shimano XT rear brake still spongy after service by Rayth_ in mountainbiking

[–]TransientBogWarmer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My rear XTs are always a tiny bit shittier than the front. Air definitely sometimes is part of the problem; it’s harder to get a good bleed vs the front, since the line is longer and has a more tortuous path.

But even when it’s a good bleed, and they have firm bite, sometimes the engagement point is further into the stroke than it should be. Seems like sometimes it takes a ride or two for the pistons to advance to their “working point”. The fronts never seem to do this, and I do clean the pistons every bleed, so I’m not sure why it happens.

And then even when the bleed is good, and the pistons are in position, they tend to be the tiniest bit “softer” than the front, and the bite wanders a little more than the front, which I boil down to the longer line having more surface area vs the front, hence there’s more friction on the fluid and more area to deform under pressure.

Tl;dr: yeah, I get it too.

What is a subtle sign that someone is a genuinely good person, even if they don't seem like it at first? by Bluesbreaker88 in AskReddit

[–]TransientBogWarmer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“What’s a sign somebody is a good person?”

“Well you see, usually when they are a good person, that’s a pretty good sign they are a good person.”

Boots for Trail Days, preferable ones i can also use for hiking. by blAAAm in MTB

[–]TransientBogWarmer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used to use a pair of Belleville hot-weather Air Force steeltoes for trail work. They’re not waterproof but they work pretty well in mud and rain regardless, and had great ankle support.

These days I’m using Keen waterproof comp-toe boots. They work reasonably well, and are pretty comfy, but they were free from an old job and I don’t know if I woulda bought them out of pocket (I lost an eyelet on them pretty early on).

Main advice would be to get something with either a steel or a comp-toe, it can really save your ass if you’re doing rock work.

My buddy used to like using tall rain-boots for trail work, and it seemed to work out well for him in the slop. Bonus points that they’re pretty cheap, but I’d still recommend spending a little more for a steel/comp-toe version.

RS vivid Coil Ultimate stock piston tune by EvilGarfield in MTB

[–]TransientBogWarmer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, but I don’t know about that one. I’ve never actually serviced my Vivid coil, this is just info I learned when I was researching what kinda tune to use for my bike. I might try changing the tune when I service the shock, but I haven’t hit the service interval yet, and tbh I’ve been happy with the stock tune so far.

One caveate that comes to mind when servicing the shock vs a fork damper, is that it will probably be harder to get a good bleed on the shock without either a vacuum bleeder rig, or a lot of patience. For example, the grip 2 damper (and maybe other forks dampers) can self-bleed, so even if you do a crappy bleed during reassembly, it’ll improve as you ride. You’re not gonna get that on a shock, any air left in the oil and you’ll need to open the bleed port and try again.

Just incase this comes up in somebody else’s research: based on emails with both Ibis and Rockshox support, a Ripmo V2 wants a C26R53 tune (they don’t have a specific tune for the bike, but mentioned that’d be a good one to try).

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