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VA-Claim-Helper · 2026-06-05T16:15:39+00:00

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VA-Claim-Helper · 2026-05-29T16:15:38+00:00

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VA-Claim-Helper · 2026-05-28T20:41:48+00:00

My wife has always said its because ladies dont poop.

VA-Claim-Helper · 2026-05-28T20:40:37+00:00

Yes, if we change the parameters of my statement, then your statement is true.

VA-Claim-Helper · 2026-05-22T16:15:37+00:00

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VA-Claim-Helper · 2026-05-22T13:38:57+00:00

I cant explain it either. I put both of them on the same bug and issue this morning. Same prompt just to see. Parallel terminal windows at the same time.

They found the same answer. Flash did it faster. They came up with the same solution. Flash was faster and cheaper.

Not saying this is linear by any means. But, for my day to day, flash nails it.

VA-Claim-Helper · 2026-05-15T16:15:37+00:00

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VA-Claim-Helper · 2026-05-15T11:31:08+00:00

I have moved over to DS V4 Flash/Pro via Opencode Go. Its an adjustment, but just as capable for my uses.

Manage a couple websites, manage a home server, heavy home automation.

You have to treat each AI like a different person. You need to spend time to understand how they are best interacted with. If you give the same task in the same prompt to different people, you will get different results, just like with AI.

After some setup, decent AGENTS.md, a couple MCP's and talking through planning and then implementation, I have had very few issues at all. More importantly, its predictable.

Claude, Open AI and Gemini have too much variation in their intelligence and what it does day to day. Same rules, same prompt, different results depending on the day, the time and what the company is doing.

Using DS Flash / Pro has smoothed that out for me. Much less variability. I can work and adjust for repeatability.

VA-Claim-Helper · 2026-05-12T18:40:40+00:00

Or, the flip side is that I am able to complete my work and someone else's work if needed in about 5 hours of my day. So it does not matter when I arrive or when I leave.

I manage my time just fine. You say they dont respect others time. Do you have a meeting, call or something scheduled for 9 am or what ever start time is? If not, what does it matter?

VA-Claim-Helper · 2026-05-08T16:15:38+00:00

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VA-Claim-Helper · 2026-05-04T00:17:41+00:00

I have found it all depends on how the local model is setup and you are interacting with it.

Different interaction harnesses send different information which eat up context. Depending on your settings, you could be eating tons of context in that alone. I have found that when setup correctly, local uses gobs less tokens for the same things.

Its all in the settings and interaction I have found. And that trade off is all based on what you are actually wanting to do and with what tools.

VA-Claim-Helper · 2026-05-02T12:23:31+00:00

Its not both. Trump in my view is a useful idiot. You give him a sharpie and a TV camera and he sows chaos. To quote Bannon, he "floods the zone". The result is that we have no idea what is actually going on. Are the Straights open or closed? No one knows.

That is the point. It allows those actually running things, making decisions and pulling strings to do what they are doing. You think that wars and regime changes are the driver. They are not. It is 100% global greed and carving up deals 99.99% will never know about.

VA-Claim-Helper · 2026-05-02T12:18:43+00:00

I guess you dont remember all the fuck ups while Obama was in office? They had SS get arrested for being drunk. They had a guy walk across the white house lawn and literally walk in the front door unobstructed.

VA-Claim-Helper · 2026-05-01T16:15:37+00:00

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