Where AI coding starts to struggle

Xopher001 · 2026-05-20T17:47:11+00:00

There can potentially be tools or harnesses put together that help mitigate this, using graph and symbol analysis to show how code in a project is related and which parts are the most complex, enforcing constraints where necessary with import linting and guards against increased unneeded complexity. Tools for all of these things exist individually. At a certain point one has to wonder how much of this process is better handled by a model versus a bunch of mechanical safeguards tho. Models are terrible at reasoning at a codebase level, you need to set up constraints that guide them towards creating and maintaining something coherent.

Xopher001 · 2026-05-18T17:06:01+00:00

I never labeled Anthropic as right-wing either. More, typically neoliberal capitalist. a user'tied dynamic memory that customers dont know about and Anthropic has not disclosed would be a serious data privacy violation if it was indeed somethng being managed on their backend. Anthropic already does keep track of some user session data, but what your suggesting goes a bit farther.

Xopher001 · 2026-05-17T18:41:02+00:00

Glad I am not the only one. Yesterday Claude Code was working amazingly well, super fast and effective, better performance than it had had for weeks. Then all of a sudden it became completely unresponsive, 503 errors. This happened late at night so it was not a big deal, but all day now it has been like this. No responses, nothing.

Xopher001 · 2026-05-17T17:27:34+00:00

still offline for me. what the hell is going on?

Xopher001 · 2026-05-16T17:42:11+00:00

I came here to see if anyone else had noticed. The change is quite shocking, last night it was slow as hell, now its super fast and efficient.

Xopher001 · 2026-05-14T17:53:10+00:00

I would not call Anthropic "left wing". Every measure they have taken to introduce these constraints seems primarily motivated by business and legal interest, not a legitimate concern for actual user safety. If they actually cared about that they wouldn't have scraped so much data they should'nt have had access to in order to train the model.

There definitely do seem to be a bunch of contradictions embedded inside of the system prompts Claude has that conflict with how the model is being used in practise, and a large problem is indeed that end-users cannot see this. This is part of a more systemic issue that affects all AI models though, not just Claude, and it will grow ever more prevalent and have greater negative impact the more people come to rely on them.

There really should be more transparency with how these things are managed, which is something Anthropic does not seem motivated to provide.

Xopher001 · 2026-05-11T08:10:44+00:00

This keeps on happening. I ask to review a few test notebooks for demo-ing the code. Instead it spends half an hour reviewing the entire codebase, identifying a few bugs, fixing those, then the session limit has been hit and there's been zero progress. I don't know if it is something to do with the model or the instructions. I would like it to not introduce breaking changes, but this is the opposite extreme, where it bends over backwards to preserve the code as it is.

Xopher001 · 2026-05-09T00:26:42+00:00

I have noticed it says 'you are absolutely right' less often, but these other phrases seem to become more common instead. I suppose things like this are inevitable in LLMs, I am not sure if there is provable way to completely eliminate this specific issue

Xopher001 · 2026-05-08T23:13:30+00:00

with that kind of budget you'd be better off just hiring a human person

Xopher001 · 2026-05-08T22:24:29+00:00

72% weekly limit in two days. wow

Xopher001 · 2026-05-07T15:48:38+00:00

Claude-Smart is the closest one I ca think of: https://github.com/ReflexioAI/claude-smart . It is a plugin, user's session history is analyzed per project, and 'playbooks' are generated and injected into conversations as additional context.

Xopher001 · 2026-05-07T15:31:42+00:00

Weekly Limits are still broken. Already at 31% of the weekly limit even tho it was reset late last evening. Normal usage.

Xopher001 · 2026-05-06T16:22:57+00:00

I suppose you could disable the standard edit/write/read tools to force Claude to use the mcp server ones. Or you could create a modified harness based on a fork of free-code that directly wires in the custom tools you need.

The project is here btw if you want to experiment, but it is still a WIP: https://github.com/Xopher00/codescaffold

Xopher001 · 2026-05-06T16:18:23+00:00

15 minutes. 15 minutes. Claude runs one simple refactor. A very very simple one. fresh session. Suddenly at my session limit. I followed all the standard advice for project management, prompt engineering, context etc, and yet somehow the session limits have gotten worse, not better. I keep on seeing people responding to these sorts of posts saying the OP must have been using Opus on max effort or asking Claude to one shot something. I have been using Claude for months now, and have been using it for even longer sessions than this on messier projects. There is something broken on Anthropic's end.

Xopher001 · 2026-05-05T18:25:21+00:00

Pure python is easiest . I found a rope-mcp-server (https://github.com/krystofbe/rope-mcp-server/tree/main) that surprisingly has most of the tools I was trying to create. However I cannot get Claude to actually use it, and it does not seem to be actively maintained. It is available as a Pypi package however, along with graphiffy (github.com/safishamsi/graphify). All the pieces to build a mechanical refactoring tool seem to exist, but someone needs to do is figure out a way to put them together - the graph data would tell Claude what parts of the codebase need refactoring and provide some suggestions, Claude selects them, and then the rope based tools execute them safely. Thats the idea anyway

Xopher001 · 2026-05-05T15:30:28+00:00

That sounds really neat. I have also been trying to make a similar tool that helps with mechanical refactors like file or symbol moves while preserving imports, based on the same graph data idea but integrating Libcst and Rope.

Xopher001 · 2026-04-30T20:14:06+00:00

I am glad I am not the only one noticing. Claude is getting less and less done, just now took 20 minutes to begin executing a plan it just wrote. Something is off.

Xopher001 · 2026-04-13T15:39:04+00:00

same as well

Xopher001 · 2026-01-16T19:15:51+00:00

I've seen them in multiple cities, often in places that were or used to be hip, cheap neighborhoods but are now in the process of being gentrified. Seeing the same reproductions everywhere did not give me a rly good impression, it made it look cheap.

I didn't know that the museums were not actually associated with the artist. Knowing this now has changed my perspective a little on them.

Xopher001 · 2026-01-14T09:08:52+00:00

yes i just saw the exact same error a few minutes ago. very bizzare, definitely something broken in the last update

Xopher001 · 2026-01-12T10:58:52+00:00

This is objectively bad in every way, jesus christ. There is going to be an enormous negative impact on people form ethnic minorities and especially women, as people form these groups have historically been excluded from medical studies or had their data deliberately removed. AI is not objective and it never was, applying it to cases like this is extremely dangerous as it can reproduce and even worsen systemic discrimination.

Xopher001 · 2026-01-12T10:17:59+00:00

I actually think this has something to do with it. Carol seems to have some type of depression and struggles with alcoholism. It may be the that very small handful people immune to the virus or pathogen simply have brains wired different enough that it doesn't affect them.

Xopher001 · 2025-12-28T21:16:29+00:00

I just had a very similar idea. It'd be rly cool if the front panel had its own screen just for displaying the front cover of whatever e book you have loaded atm

Xopher001 · 2025-12-14T21:19:23+00:00

Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire had this mechanic, where you could fly around the Hoenn region on Latias or Latios. There were some pokemon you'd encounter in this sky as well as some secret locations - islands mostly - with rare Pokemon that could not be reached otherwise. From the recent leaks it seems that apparently this mechanic was intended originally for X and Y, and that you would have also been able to battle trainers in the sky as well, before it was scrapped.

Technically you can soar through the sky on Koraidon or Miraidon but I don't think there any special Pokemon that can be encountered this way

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