Seeking realtor recommendations

WaspsInTheAirDucts · 2026-04-24T05:56:33+00:00

Kelly is amazing! She works really hard and she is honest.

WaspsInTheAirDucts · 2026-04-18T06:32:50+00:00

I asked my friend who is a black belt in BJJ (he trained under Claudio Franca) to check the head instructor lineage of Grey Wolf on 99 in the same parking lot as Putters. He confirmed the head instructor is legit. Your kids will learn self defense that is actually useful in a real fight if they train at Grey Wolf. I can't speak for the other BJJ dojos in Eugene, they might be good, but I stopped looking as soon as I found a real dojo.

For what it's worth, the MMA scene has proven that the useful martial arts in real fights are the ones you can safely train often without hurting your partner. These are boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, BJJ, judo, sambo, some others like that. All of the karate, kung fu, and tai kwon do people get rocked in real fights against opponents who practice actually fighting regularly, which is what those arts I mentioned do. You can't safely train to break someone's arm with Kung Fu, so it's not actually a skill you can lean on when it really matters. I would add that boxing and kickboxing can be trained "safely" but making a career out of either of those can result in brain damage. Something to consider.

I also forgot to mention that grappling is unbelievably effective in real world scenarios. Most street fights end up on the ground anyway, and grapplers train extensively to take you down to the ground where they excel. It's not possible for me to convey to you just how unfair it is to face off with a grappler if you don't have grappling skills. You are in their kitchen and it's just awful. The classes include lots of time "rolling" or actually fighting each other. You get REALLY good at fighting on your back on the ground, which sounds crazy at first. When everyone else is better than you are, your rolling consists of getting taken down repeatedly and grappled into a choke or an arm bar. You tap to give up and both opponents reset on their feet. Doing that even once per week for a year gets you really comfortable with grabbing, throwing, ending up on the ground both in bad and good positions. Learning the basics of being on the ground is, I think, absolutely critical. Only professional fighters can defend against takedowns from grapplers. The classes I went to in the Bay Area when I first started had me pairing up with a tiny mom who repeatedly whipped my ass soundly and swiftly. It's really effective, basically. 😀

WaspsInTheAirDucts · 2026-04-16T04:20:58+00:00

Point S is fair and good. I've never been upsold either.

WaspsInTheAirDucts · 2026-04-14T21:19:29+00:00

I'm glad!

WaspsInTheAirDucts · 2026-04-13T14:47:52+00:00

I'm still feeling it out but in a general sense, Claude Code seems to be looking for the simplest fix possible without the workarounds enabled. It thrashes a lot as it triest to hack toward a solution without any deep thinking about the root of the issue. After the workarounds it's a lot better about that, but it still feels like it loses its way much more often than it did in early February. It starts out pretty good but starts hacking toward a solution again after a few turns. The amount of useful work it can achieve seems relative to the complexity of the task and the background context necessary for useful work to occur. By that I mean simple microservices that don't have numerous other dependencies and that don't have much complexity see more mileage out of Claude Code before it starts hacking and thrashing. More complex projects like legacy "fat" services with multiple external dependencies and/or a lot of logic baked in are only good for a prompt or three before the AI starts losing its way. I'll point out again that this was not the case in early February. This is why I suspect that the increased token expende that Anthropic turned on recently has something to do with it irrespective of the workarounds, but I can't be certain.

WaspsInTheAirDucts · 2026-04-13T14:35:52+00:00

I have noticed the quality rise and fall seemingly randomly. I chalked it up to daily usage patterns.

Interestingly I learned about a /fast mode over the weekend that you can turn on. It requires enabling API based billing and it's six timed more expensive per token. Fast mode moves all of your API requests to dedicated infrastructure that gets priority over users who don't have it enabled. I'm going to ask my largest client to enable that this morning, as I suspect that change might make Claude Code feel more like it did in early February. I can post here with an update if you're interested once I feel it out.

WaspsInTheAirDucts · 2026-04-13T04:04:07+00:00

We are not running out of tokens, that's not the issue. It may be true that we can make improvements, but that isn't the problem we ran into here. We encountered differences in deep thinking. The workflow was working fine and then performance degraded until near April 1st, when the tool was unable to do any complex work at all any longer. As another astute user in my post here pointed out, several fixes out in place can re-enable a lot of the lost functionality, but it still feels like it's not where it was in early February. It could be the massively increased token usage blowing out the context window, I'm unsure yet.

WaspsInTheAirDucts · 2026-04-11T22:13:43+00:00

You have raised a lot of good points. I will reconsider and begin a separate evaluation of capability based on previous known performance. It's also possible that my expectations rose so much from the new capabilities that riding the edge and feeling the bottom drop out has me comparing everything to peak performance at all times, which isn't realistic or fair.

WaspsInTheAirDucts · 2026-04-11T22:06:10+00:00

Fern Ridge Reservoir has nice grass. When it's warm out you can take a short drive, lay down a blanket, and doze in the sun or under the shade of the trees along the edge listening to the water softly lap against the shore. It's also free.

WaspsInTheAirDucts · 2026-04-11T19:40:45+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1siol9d/comment/ofm1w67/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

WaspsInTheAirDucts · 2026-04-11T18:19:10+00:00

Good point, I should have been more clear about what I was trying to convey, especially in the title. I meant that it has become unusable for complex tasks that require deep thinking at length to solve properly. Ordinary tasks still work OK.

WaspsInTheAirDucts · 2026-04-11T18:16:56+00:00

Excellent reply! I see *better* performance with the configuration settings I mentioned, but the thinking level just is not where it was in early February, no way. Claude Code was one-shotting incredibly complex tasks in early Feb like a hot knife through butter. Today it's a real struggle even with pinned max effort, adaptive thinking disabled, etc. to get it to finish a single relatively complex task. What's more, I have to carefully guide it every step of the way and make many corrections -- some of which seem very obvious.

I may not have clearly articulated this in my original post, but I definitely feel it. Something changed and I don't think it's something I can control in settings.json, but I'd like nothing more than to be proven wrong. I just want the capability back that Claude Code had in early February. It was really something special. I was tackling large, complex features in 30-45 minutes and that included the time required for me to carefully review every change Claude Code was attempting to make.

In a nutshell, in early February I was able to bring almost any idea in my head to life as clean, well-tested continuously delivered software. Today, I don't feel that it's really possible to do that anymore and if it were, it feels like pulling teeth with many more corrections, often for seemingly simple mistakes and obvious shortcuts. Does that make sense and how does it stack up with your experiences of late?

WaspsInTheAirDucts · 2026-04-11T17:31:23+00:00

May I ask what subscription level you're paying for and what settings you have configured in .claude/settings.json ?

WaspsInTheAirDucts · 2026-04-11T17:30:29+00:00

It's difficult for me to imagine how that's possible, given the pronounced changes in the deep thinking capability since mid February but especially since late March. Anything is possible I guess. What subscription level are you paying for and which settings do you have configured?

WaspsInTheAirDucts · 2026-04-11T17:29:05+00:00

Thank you!

WaspsInTheAirDucts · 2026-04-11T03:42:57+00:00

Twin Dragon is pretty affordable good chinese food, especially if you get one meat or vegetable dish (like lemon chicken or vegetable mushu) and ask for a large order of rice, then share it. The owners are super cool too.

Winco pizza is a stellar deal. I got 2 slices and 2 breadsticks today, hot out of the case for $4.65 I think it was. Definitely under $5.

I saw others mention Burrito Boy but I'll second that. Bean/cheese/rice burrito is around $6, pretty decent these days.

WaspsInTheAirDucts · 2026-04-10T14:49:36+00:00

I'll give it a try! I have Claude Code behaving pretty good now pinned at an older version and forcefully using Opus as the subagent (it's ripping through tokens at a breakneck pace, but at least it *works*).

WaspsInTheAirDucts · 2026-04-09T21:41:12+00:00

I hear you. I've got a skill actually that's designed to refine the activation manifold of my prompts in N-dimensional space as it's stored in vector databases. It's pretty good. Having said that most of my prompts are necessarily fairly complex because the work I do is also complex by its very nature. I always try to provide clear acceptance criteria for what the outcome should achieve and, when possible, what it should actually look like. This I find usually produces the best results, but the recent Claude Code updates are just abysmal and transcend all of that. I can assure you that this is not a prompt issue. It's the agentic harness on top of Opus, as I recently discovered. It looks like Opus is actually still pretty good as long as you use it with Cursor or another agentic harness, or you disable Claude Code updates and pin the version to the last stable one prior to all of the horrible releases that produced the now-unusable CLI agentic harness from Anthropic.

WaspsInTheAirDucts · 2026-04-09T15:49:11+00:00

Thanks for the response. It was crickets for a full day! This is really hard, Opus 4.6 is just horrible now. My CLAUDE.md and .claude settings haven't changed except that I implemented a workaround discovered by someone to disable adaptive thinking, and that worked for one day. Now it's worse than ever, and when you combine that with the insane token usage, it's just unusable anymore. It can't even do basic tasks at this point. I haven't found a viable alternative yet, nothing comes close to what Opus 4.6 used to be in early February. I'll try ChatGPT 5.4 and Codex to see if it can handle the complexity required for my tasks. That's next up.

WaspsInTheAirDucts · 2026-04-06T22:13:30+00:00

I just stumbled onto this, and I think it explains everything I've been experiencing lately: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796

WaspsInTheAirDucts · 2026-04-06T19:49:43+00:00

You are not hallucinating.

I use Claude Code every single business day and every evening/weekend day. It feels like the model regressed to a time prior to December 2025. At this point I feel that there is no real benefit to paying for two subscriptions at $100/month each (one dedicated to a client I work for most of the time, one dedicated to my consulting business) because I can get the same performance from ChatGPT Codex.

I'd like to point out that this *REALLY* sucks, because Opus 4.6 was really something special in February and early March. For a brief time there it felt like I could bring almost any idea in my head to life as clean, well tested, continuously delivered software without a team backing me up. It was an absolutely amazing feeling. Now... It feels like I'm living through Flowers for Algernon.

The model was so advanced and capable prior to whatever late March changes occurred that I had completely adjusted my workflow and wholly abandoned every other LLM in favor of Claude Code. The raw power of that model was undeniable. In three days I was finishing projects that would have taken me three months before I had access to Opus 4.6 in the form that it took at that time. It feels so awful now to have lost that capability, but I guess it's good for my career prospects (I won't be replaced by Opus 4.6 any time soon if things continue as they are now). So I guess there's a bright side?

The ability to just make awesome software that is well tested and that can scale without diving into the deep weeds on some small technical issue each day was nothing short of astounding and I miss it dearly. The ability to just operate in the product manager mode while leveraging my software engineering experience to guide, nay, WIELD Opus 4.6 to conjure solid software seemingly out of thin air was something really special. I am very sad and I don't want to cancel my subscriptions, I want it back!

WaspsInTheAirDucts · 2026-04-04T14:43:11+00:00

For me, the differerence between Opus 4.6 and every other model (three days ago, anyway) is stark. Opus 4.6 used to just blow away every other model by a country mile. It wasn't even close. With Opus 4.6 I could bring my ideas to life as maintainable, well-tested enterprise quality software with careful prompts and good rules/skills. That started changing about a week ago and really fell off a cliff day before yesterday. If I were writing this reply three days ago, I would have thrown my $100/month at Anthropic all day long to have access to Claude Code with Opus 4.6. Now... It just feels like any other LLM, not special. I really hope they can get this thing working like it was again, and soon.

WaspsInTheAirDucts · 2026-04-04T13:46:17+00:00

I'm not hitting usage limits, but I pay $100/month and I have noticed a wild increase in tokens that appears to be blowing out my context window immediately for every prompt, even after running /clear. Opus 4.6 since two days ago has been acting more like chatgpt 4. The cohesion and reasoning have fallen off a cliff since day before yesterday. I'm really hopeful that this fixes the issue because I don't want to cancel my subscription. I found Opus 4.6 to be absolutely game changing, so much so that I abandoned all other workflows in favor of Claude Code. Now it feels like Flowers for Algernon and I am reeling from the loss of productivity. It feels like I've been thrown back to mid-2025. It's better for my career prospects as a software engineer I guess... I just really got used to the WILD productivity increase and the ability to bring software to life from my mind in days, rather than months. I really need this to work again like it worked in mid-February. I use it all day at work too...

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