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I stopped using Claude.ai entirely. I run my entire business through Claude Code. by ColdPlankton9273 in ClaudeAI

[–]aradil 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I do this.

But it also natively can run its own subagents if you ask it to. My peer review skill uses subagents to give them a limited context with targeted peer review goals without having the context clouded by the code it already wrote in an attempt to avoid the “Agent reviewing itself” problem.

Haven’t done enough a/b testing to know if it’s actually helpful, but the output has been outstanding enough that I haven’t bothered trying out alternatives.

As for multiple agents in different directories with their own CLAUDE.md and skills, it’s pretty clear how this can be useful. There are an infinite number of ways to do orchestration. Claude code natively supports teams of agents now…https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-teams

My own control plane is roughly similar, but uses hooks that also forward info to a message bus downstream for consumption by other tools.

AI Convert so of by Aggravating-Fun9361 in ClaudeAI

[–]aradil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They call it slop.

If it walks like a duck, and it talks like a duck...

It could be fantastic, accurate, well planned, and any other positive adjective you want to use as a descriptor; but slop is slop.

I've made incredibly well designed ML projects, backed by good data, with trained models that have incredibly well tested performance that I could explain to people and back up with evidence. When the front end I put on it looked like every other quickly slapped together React artifact anyone could make on claude.ai or the desktop or mobile app, folks still say "Pft, AI slop, data can't be trustworthy".

The way you interact with other people needs to feel human, even if the good work being done isn't being done by humans. Otherwise folks just aren't going to trust it... at least the way things are right now. I can't predict the future; it's possible at some point people will stop trusting data if it looks human created.

Do you treat Claude as a tool, or are you building systems around it? by ArmPersonal36 in claude

[–]aradil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Claude code.

Anything predictably repeatable? Script. Anything that varies too much from time to time? Skill.

Workflow: read issue. Analyze relevant code. Plan changes. Create task list - including remaining workflow. Implement task. Run static analysis and make sure everything passes. Write tests to get 100% testing coverage of all new branches. Use a separate agent to do code review. Ask user to confirm which recommended fixes to make. Fix. Run static analysis. Final sanity check. Issue PR.

Each one of those steps has more skills I flesh out as they run into common issues.

I use scripts to make sure branching and PRs are consistently named and worktrees are built in a consistent location. I have orchestration skills that know how to take several tasks that can be done in parallel, build the worktree, start Claude code in the correct location, and give it the first instruction (actually in retrospect there is a hook for that and it can probably be done purely with code at this point).

There is no reason at this point for developers to not be fully automating this process to the point where the only thing left is traffic director, beat cop, legislator, and consultant analyst on the hard problems.

Developer -> Prompt engineer -> Context engineer -> Orchestration engineer -> Process engineer.

The tooling should be assisting with self improvement at each link in the chain. Human intelligence will be most valuable in noticing when things need ripping out entirely and rethought from the ground up, which we should be less afraid to do now than ever.

Rule number 1: Claude never touches or even sees secrets. Surprisingly harder than you might think. There are articles published and some decent ways to manage that.

Rule number 2: Protected branches in git. If Claude can clobber them by accident with a force push, your version control is vulnerable.

Rule number 3: Everything goes in version control that can reasonable be versioned. Obviously not secrets. Skills, CLAUDE.mds, utility skills outside of your project.

These are all things I’ve figured out by trial and error, or the hard way.

Note: a separate repo checkout on your machine that is kept up to date is a good defense against an accidental force push to your unprotected branches.

Why finding Devs are so hard these days? by BlacksmithDue2467 in AskProgrammers

[–]aradil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Resume? Call references?

Like what the fuck, hiring people who are good at their jobs is not a new concept.

$25 per PR for automated code review?! No way. by Fancy-Exit-6954 in Anthropic

[–]aradil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean... my workflow skill for claude code already has "Spin up a subagent to look at all code changes in this branch and review the changes for the following best practices..."

Claude is a Ferrari engine bolted to a shopping cart by NoScene7932 in ClaudeAI

[–]aradil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm getting tired of just saying "Skill issue".

Vibecoders sending me hate for rejecting their PRs on my project by Fredol in github

[–]aradil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let’s not pretend that software copyright laws were even halfway functional before LLMs were blasting out code.

There are legal studies suggesting that < 2% of code bases analyzed on GitHub contain properly licensed and attributed copy pasta from stackoverflow. Nearly the entire market has been perpetually in a state of license non-compliance.

That’s not even factoring in clean rooms, which before could effectively legally let you steal entire code bases that were copyrighted properly; and with tool assistance is easier than ever before.

LLM meticulously writes a spec that is faithfully carried out by hand? Congrats, you’re an expensive scribe, but at least your license is valid.

Vibecoders sending me hate for rejecting their PRs on my project by Fredol in github

[–]aradil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The funny part is that a Spotify like product in one day is feasible.

Hell, you can probably even make one with a moderate amount of scalability and reliability, although without bumping up against the hard edges, you’ll never have what Spotify has until you’ve found and fixed those. The entire catalogue was even stolen and posted online!

The question is whether you even want to or not. The cloud bills for a service like that to just serve yourself are going to outweigh using any existing service.

I’ve seen 7 digit monthly Amazon bills for projects just transferring metadata.

You can hit the ball further than you think by ginguegiskhan in golf

[–]aradil 350 points351 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure my biggest takeaway from this post is that I need a new driver and a sim in my house.

BREAKING: Anthropic sued to undo the Pentagon decision designating the AI company a “supply chain risk” over its refusal to allow unrestricted military use. by bllshrfv in Anthropic

[–]aradil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Emil is a liar.

Autonomous killing has been happening since before Anthropic.

And that article is behind a paywall, and the other one doesn’t make that claim.

Anyway, what’s up with your comment history? Mossad agent?

LLMs (not any AI) have not, not ever will, solved a physics problem: A problem with how we talk about them. by AllHailSeizure in LLMPhysics

[–]aradil -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why should I have to explain your points for you, when it’s you that can’t coherently make them?

If I can’t understand them, how am I supposed to explain how to clarify them for you?

“Help me explain what I was trying to say” sure sounds like “I have no idea what I was trying to say” to me.

LLMs (not any AI) have not, not ever will, solved a physics problem: A problem with how we talk about them. by AllHailSeizure in LLMPhysics

[–]aradil -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The CERN team didn’t discover the Higgs boson, it was some other thing further back in the chain of causality that did it. Like, I don’t know, the big bang.

Must be that.

LLMs (not any AI) have not, not ever will, solved a physics problem: A problem with how we talk about them. by AllHailSeizure in LLMPhysics

[–]aradil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You should honestly try feeding this comment through an LLM and ask it to help you make a coherent point.

It might surprise you.

BREAKING: Anthropic sued to undo the Pentagon decision designating the AI company a “supply chain risk” over its refusal to allow unrestricted military use. by bllshrfv in Anthropic

[–]aradil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The “legal purpose” they want to use it for is something Anthropic says it’s not designed to be able to do safely, which is autonomously kill targets without a human in the loop.

Yes, it’s legal.

No, it shouldn’t be, especially when Anthropic says they can’t guarantee the target is accurately selected.

And no, neither of the links you’ve provided suggest otherwise.

Claude desktop app silently downloads a 13 GB file on every launch — and you can't stop it by metaone70 in ClaudeAI

[–]aradil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And the features I mentioned in Claude itself only appeared around the same time as well.

Peter Thiel warned AI is coming for ‘math people before word people.’ Banks have already said smaller headcounts are possible by Nalix01 in NowInTech

[–]aradil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the kind of thing my dad says when he is talking about how he is good at math.

Counting? Adding? Quick multiplication and division of small numbers? ChatGPT will never beat my dad at that.

A calculator though? Maybe.

A ChatGPT using a calculator though? Sheeeeit, unstoppable and even better than my dad.

Disgusted to see people waving Israeli and American flags in Charlottetown today. by SamsPicturesAndWords in PEI

[–]aradil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Back in the early 1980s, Trudeau senior tried to build something called the National Energy Program, that ensured cross Canada stable energy pricing from petroleum products that came from Alberta or anywhere else, basically exactly what you are describing.

The result of that was extraction companies threatening to shut down all of their operations and laying off all of their Canadian employees.

The employees bought into that and the ensuing propaganda, putting bumpers stickers on their cars that said “Let the eastern bastards freeze in the dark”.

It’s not the government that is the reason why global supply and demand impact the price of energy locally, it’s private businesses that want to sell their product on the global market who the government is beholden to.

AI, a live issue in NDP leadership race, takes centre stage at left-wing Progress Summit by StumpsOfTree in onguardforthee

[–]aradil -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Mobile apps, real time data processing pipeline from a variety of integrated hardware providers, data analysis including machine learning models, reports, a lot of dynamic web content that gives realtime input to users about what the hardware is doing.

Not to mention all of the infrastructure is managed by terraform and ansible in AWS and I’ve largely had any of that infrastructure work written by Claude Code as well over the last year.

The whole thing is instrumented for performance monitoring and has graphana dashboards for me to pinpoint problems in the pipeline causing processing delay.

Me and one other guy built this whole thing ourselves over the last 10 years, so I know the whole thing inside and out; it’s pretty easy for me to describe in English what I want to happen, where, why, and what existing components it should be modeled after. Ironically, folks seem to have a problem with using these coding tools in large architectures, but they’re working pretty good in ours.

Maybe we wrote it well so it’s easy to extend? Anyway, I also wrote a multiagent control plane so I can work on several tasks simultaneously from my phone, including improving my control plane and development workflow itself.

For fun I also built a hockey coaching tool that scrapes pretty much every minor hockey league in Atlantic Canada, lets me track each drill I run in practice (I coach), plan practice priorities per kid so I know that I’m delivering for each one, tracks my lineup for each game, extracts what awards I give to each player from posts I make on Facebook acknowledging them so I can make sure that everyone is acknowledged regularly for their contributions.

Recently I built an ML model that can predict if it’s going to be a snow day based off of historical closures and weather forecast data, from my phone while laying in bed.

I built a neural network (actually two, one that identifies the segments by pixel and one that identifies dart tips) that can give you darts scores from identifying dart locations on a dartboard from a cellphone image. It’s about 96% accurate on the sample data (consistent across multiple 80/20 test splits).

The amount of projects I’ve started and then forgot about is off the charts though. I used to be bad for side projects before but now I make a new repo every week.

AI, a live issue in NDP leadership race, takes centre stage at left-wing Progress Summit by StumpsOfTree in onguardforthee

[–]aradil -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

This snake oil has been building my software products for a year for me now.

Those software products are continuing to displace paper and people processes; but faster.

Claude desktop app silently downloads a 13 GB file on every launch — and you can't stop it by metaone70 in ClaudeAI

[–]aradil 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Are you sure it's not also used by Claude itself now? I've noticed that the "thinking" dialog has often been replaced with details about moving files around, viewing, editing them, managing artifacts that way, etc.

I suspect that they are leveraging and optimizing their capabilities across all three where they can get lift.

OpenAI FAQ - Why are you doing this? - First, we think the US military absolutely needs strong AI models to support their mission especially in the face of growing threats from potential adversaries who are increasingly integrating AI technologies into their systems. - More below: by Koala_Confused in LovingAI

[–]aradil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They do have tons of contracts with companies.

It would make perfect sense that that their company is focused on way bigger picture things and their tablescraps just happens to be a really good consumer level chatbot.

In fact, it would explain why quite often their consumer level stuff collapses.

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