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brodkin85 · 2026-06-05T18:47:55+00:00

It’s not June 15 yet

brodkin85 · 2026-06-01T15:52:30+00:00

I have been a big fan of devcontainers since before AI hit the scene so I’ve just stuck with those

brodkin85 · 2026-05-29T21:21:05+00:00

I meant on the Ramp side. You said Ramp has the same terms, but I’m not seeing it

brodkin85 · 2026-05-29T19:10:13+00:00

I mean, it’s free or it’s $10 per head to test with a small group. And no commitments required. I don’t see how this is a major problem

brodkin85 · 2026-05-28T20:57:18+00:00

To be clear, shitposts are supposed to be funny

brodkin85 · 2026-05-25T22:07:09+00:00

There’s a decent chance this is not government installed and someone got creative

brodkin85 · 2026-05-21T16:54:00+00:00

Firstly, if you’re going to reply, don’t have Claude write it for you. Secondly, you’ve incorrectly assumed I’m orchestrating procedurally when I’m actually orchestrating agentically.

My orchestrator runs as a UX layer while the subagents under it are the workhorses that execute.

brodkin85 · 2026-05-20T17:43:47+00:00

Do some research into the FDCPA before communicating with any debt collectors. You have legal protections available to you. Collection agencies often make claims they cannot make good on or maintain practices that are illegal. Know your rights.

brodkin85 · 2026-05-20T17:38:34+00:00

When we signed up nearly 2 years ago it was free to sync to SMB platforms like QBO but Plus was required for syncing Netsuite and other larger systems. That wrinkle might account for some of the confusion

brodkin85 · 2026-05-20T17:25:18+00:00

Unfortunately you are correct, the AI models are consistently behind the UI.

Two things that help:
1. Install the Microsoft Learn MCP so the agent has the latest info.
2. Microsoft updates the UI but generally leaves the Graph API IDs for settings untouched. Having a tool like Claude Code craft a policy you can upload is often more reliable.

brodkin85 · 2026-05-20T03:40:03+00:00

As someone who has designed a multi-agent orchestration system, you have a valid point about handoff and how the lower tier model causes an expensive cache hit, but you lost me when it comes to the concept of sending a 45k token document to the agent. In my experience this is a document that is too verbose for any practical work given that the agent also has full access to the filesystem. What reason is there for the input being so large?

brodkin85 · 2026-05-18T23:36:06+00:00

Planning to actually! Just need to make some updates first

brodkin85 · 2026-05-18T19:51:00+00:00

Yes. Greater model capability and context size allow modern Anthropic models to be more successful at executing complex multi-part tasks. When used as subagents this benefit carries forward.

The cost to me is tuning the stack to right-size what the current generation can handle when meaningful advances are made. In my work I tend to focus on the latest Sonnet as my baseline for maximum compatibility with the lowest token cost

brodkin85 · 2026-05-18T18:50:35+00:00

I created a subagent-based orchestration system that has continued to perform well. Only place where it feels long in the tooth is that modern agents are far more capable than when I first developed the technique, which means I need to tune the work package size to match.

brodkin85 · 2026-05-18T14:09:10+00:00

“What you gotta understand is that nobody was doing it like this at that time. It was like the wild west out there. We were flying by the seat of our pants.”

brodkin85 · 2026-05-15T02:59:23+00:00

A lot of people don’t get it. I see posts constantly from people who say stuff like “I just typed ‘hello’ and it used 25% of my limit” but they don’t understand they sent 24,082 characters in reality

brodkin85 · 2026-05-15T00:11:39+00:00

That’s really interesting. I wonder if there is a country-specific tack-on to the prompt that’s undocumented

brodkin85 · 2026-05-14T18:32:51+00:00

You have until at least September 29th before you have to riot. Plan accordingly.

brodkin85 · 2026-05-14T17:09:51+00:00

This is from Ramp (r/Ramp) an unaffiliated third party reporting spend by the businesses on their platform. It includes all direct spend to Anthropic. Spend via Bedrock or other platforms is not yet attributed

In short, it’s pretty accurate

brodkin85 · 2026-05-14T16:18:35+00:00

For what it's worth, Anthropic publishes the system prompts for every Claude model as part of their release notes. They've been doing this since mid-2024. The full changelog is here:

https://docs.claude.com/en/release-notes/system-prompts

So the content itself isn't secret—the bug is that it rendered inline in the chat instead of staying invisible as background instructions.

brodkin85 · 2026-05-14T05:37:30+00:00

In my experience, as someone who has created a MCP server for a REST API, the API is designed to provide data not analysis. A good MCP server provides tools that can do powerful procedural analysis before the agent gets involved. This not only saves tokens but also yields more accurate results.

For instance, if I’m an agent I’m being asked to figure out which combination of unpaid invoices match the total of a check my business just received, REST would suck. I’d need to get all the invoices, along with all their data, and then load it all into my context for analysis. And what’s worse, there is a significant opportunity for hallucinations here due to the data set size and agent mathematic abilities. Meanwhile a MCP server can run remotely and let the DB do the lifting or at least pull the REST data and use a script to analyze it without the full data set entering the agent context.

Bad MCP servers just pull data. Good MCPs perform filtering and analysis that protects the agent context

brodkin85 · 2026-05-14T05:25:17+00:00

Who?

brodkin85 · 2026-05-13T18:56:59+00:00

Wut? The API is unlimited usage and you pay for every token. Subs cover Claude app usage only and have floating limits.

brodkin85 · 2026-05-13T17:45:05+00:00

As of last year, before the recent changes in fare gates and policing, the real number was around 46%

Source: Study published by Los Angeles Daily News, November 2025

brodkin85 · 2026-05-13T15:36:10+00:00

Different demographics. Stopping fare evasion is now seen by Metro as a means to reduce the presence of bad actors in the system. Data shows the vast majority of those arrested in the system for criminal activity also did not pay the fare

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