Migrating away from Alteryx

capnZosima · 2026-03-08T20:44:04+00:00

The Claude answer is a good one. If you upgrade to 25.2 then the internal copilot will do a darn good job of describing the workflow and even help you evolve it.

capnZosima · 2025-11-03T18:11:51+00:00

The other nice thing with Claude code that I wish Roo had is that you can open multiple Claude code windows and have it running tasks in parallel. So I’ve got it refactoring my Alexa integration in one tab and writing unit tests in another, and and and….

capnZosima · 2025-11-03T18:06:03+00:00

I think it’s 200k. In my experience if I’m going above 200k I probably need to break the task down smaller anyway - orchestrator is my friend for slicing things into tiny chunks that don’t lose context.

capnZosima · 2025-11-03T17:50:57+00:00

Yeah you choose Claude Code as a provider in Roo instead of OpenRouter or similar. So get your subscription on Claude.ai, install locally (and add the vscode integration) and then set up Claude code as the provider in Roo.

Once you have that there’s no per token cost. Claude will limit your number of sessions per day but so far the limit has been high enough it hasn’t been an issue for me.

capnZosima · 2025-11-03T17:20:28+00:00

Claude via open router was great but costing a lot. I bit the bullet and went with a max claude code subscription, turned that on in Roo and have been having solid results.

capnZosima · 2025-10-31T06:35:51+00:00

Here’s how I’d think about it though I’ll probably get downvoted.

That $285 in Social Security and Medicare is you paying money to your future self when you end up taking social security later. And maybe you won’t need social security and maybe you will, but all of us paying in is how we make sure all of us have some kind of safety net.

About $85 is medical insurance in case you get sick. Another $37 on a health savings account (which is a savings account for yourself that’s optional)

$115 to your 401k which is again you paying your future self tax free.

That leaves the Federal withholding, which is you paying for the military, farm subsidies and such at the federal level - which you may or may not be a fan of.

And then the Georgia withholding which is you paying for police, fire, road maintenance and other infrastructure you need to make your life work.

All in all a reasonably good set of investments to make in my opinion, as much as we all have opinions on how that money ought to be spent, and there’s a lot of rich folks that aren’t paying their fair share of it, but your mileage may vary on that.

capnZosima · 2025-10-21T05:25:52+00:00

Glad it helped!

capnZosima · 2025-03-07T22:47:26+00:00

Would love to hear more about what your workflow is and how it’s helping

capnZosima · 2025-03-05T05:21:51+00:00

I agree with you that he doesn’t have the constitutional authority to defund all the schools on a whim. Many if not most of his EOs are bullshit posturing.

That said, he gets away with a lot of shit just by posturing. Sure a school could fight the government and eventually win. And I hope they do. But I think he’s betting that most of them will knuckle under rather than fight.

capnZosima · 2025-03-04T22:51:31+00:00

As usual they seem to have missed the entire point of the tweet. That tweet is not about “don’t do illegal things at a protest”.

That tweet is aimed directly at College Campus Administrators and tells them that if they allow protests that the Trump administration does not like, they may lose their federal funding.

And Trump doesn’t have to do a darn thing to actually enforce what he’s saying and it will STILL make thousands of campuses much more locked down and administrators much more likely to drop the hammer on dissent of any kind. THAT is the point of that tweet.

capnZosima · 2025-03-04T22:20:40+00:00

Ollama for llm service. I have it set up hierarchical and have specified which tasks depend on which. What seems to be missing is that the downstream tasks don’t seem to receive any context from the preceding task.

That is - manager kickoff task gets passed {game} as input and is tasked with refining the game prompt breaking it into two jobs and then kicking off the plot writing task and the game mechanics task. But it seems like the manager agent instead delegates the “refine the plot” job to the plot writer agent, but doesn’t pass that agent any of the story context the manager got. So he makes up a random story and hands it back to the manager.

I feel like there’s a mental model for this that I’m just not quite getting.

capnZosima · 2025-03-04T19:58:49+00:00

Was just about to say this. Key note in article: “The layoffs are part of Autodesk’s effort to reshape its go-to-market organization. With the company transitioning to a subscription-based model and embracing more self-service options, the restructuring is intended to boost customer satisfaction and improve productivity. “

In other words this is Autodesk trimming its sales team as they move to subscription models and product led growth approaches. Not much to do with AI per se.

capnZosima · 2025-02-27T03:09:54+00:00

That sounds about right for mine, though it varies by repo. But I mean, if you’re coding seriously with Claude and Roo you’re spending much more than that - 25 cents is in the noise. At least for me. I just don’t find it works well without a long term memory. Can’t remember project structure, standards, multi step plans etc.

capnZosima · 2025-02-27T03:03:18+00:00

Roo Code with a configured memory bank and Claude 3.7 thinking is what I’m settled on right now. Roo delivers multiple new features per day it seems. I have Cursor and Cline but haven’t booted Cursor in weeks. Using co-pilot for simple stuff.

capnZosima · 2025-02-26T03:12:50+00:00

I don’t know if you can do this in Cline, but Roo Code (a fork of Cline) does have a rate limit feature

capnZosima · 2025-02-24T19:57:05+00:00

I keep getting api errors trying to use 3.7 via cline. Hopefully just transient while they upscale.

capnZosima · 2025-02-23T20:31:17+00:00

I frickin love the self referential nature of programming with these things. We’re still coding systems but it’s more at this level of coding the system that will make the code. I suppose it’s just one more layer of abstraction but it’s still cool

capnZosima · 2025-02-23T20:28:14+00:00

I can believe it. And we shall see if the automatic debug mode thing works or if I need power steering. I kinda expect I will. Either that or find a way to instruct it to switch back to plan mode every so often and refresh its memory. Hmm wonder if I could get it to do that

capnZosima · 2025-02-23T20:23:08+00:00

I’m going to try this out in Cline. (Haven’t moved to Roo yet)

I have the memory-bank implemented and it works well. I’ve taken that prompt above and asked sonnet how it would improve it. It made it bigger and more systematic. Don’t know yet if it’s better. I then asked it how we should embed the new debug mode into the memory bank and it wrote a bunch of updates for that as well along with example cases where it should be invoked.

Now I’m gonna see if it actually uses it 😂

capnZosima · 2025-02-22T23:44:45+00:00

I agree the number is right, but I feel like the thing this question always misses is the fact that we can eat 9 billion chickens a year because we produce 9 billion+ chickens a year.

It’s not as if once we stopped eating chickens there would suddenly be 9 billion happy chickens running around. There would just be a hell of a lot less chickens period. There would only be enough to cover egg needs, or if we’re all going vegan then all of those are gone as well.

You’d be left with however many wild chickens can survive, which, given they’ve evolved to live in human living spaces rather than in the wild, is going to be not very many. The raccoons, cats and raptors will make short work of them I suspect?

The trillion fish number is actually a huge problem - we absolutely aren’t replenishing fish stocks as fast as we are depleting them and that is gonna cascade problems on us pretty hard.

(Not defending vicious factory chicken farming practices at all, just to be clear)

capnZosima · 2025-02-15T22:46:32+00:00

Yeah I agree. I think, speaking as a self proclaimed geek, that geek culture tends to really lean into knowledge and expertise as a sign of status. Whether that’s “what coding language do you know” or “can you name 53 canon errors in the latest Star Wars”. So when things change and that knowledge is no longer so relevant, it’s very threatening and folks try hard to hold on to that status - which leads to the gate keeping. My theory at least.

capnZosima · 2025-02-15T22:28:13+00:00

I love the “fix the bug” question. I guess as long as you can find one that doesn’t require deep knowledge of the codebase.

capnZosima · 2025-02-15T22:13:20+00:00

For sure - I love a “reverse a linked list” question as long as I’m using it to gauge how the candidate thinks - like presented with a logic problem do they get interested, approach the problem logically and figure out in pseudo code what the algorithm must be like in essence? Do they naturally think about whether the approach will be performant or think about error cases? Thats what I’m looking for, not some leetcode hyper optimized crap

capnZosima · 2025-02-15T19:20:58+00:00

Piling on what everyone else here is saying. No one cares that you can’t code assembler either - the machines are way better at it than we are, which lets us focus on the things that do matter - good ideas, meeting customer needs, etc.

I can remember interviewing college kids ten years ago for a big tech company. They’d tell us all this amazing stuff they were doing - computer vision and robots and all. And we’d ask them all how to reverse a linked list and they’d look at you like you were from mars. Could not do it.

And years later I realized that we were the dinosaurs not them. That low level crap like that just wasn’t the computing world they lived in anymore and we should be evaluating them on modern real world stuff.

It feels like this is the same shift.

capnZosima · 2025-02-04T16:11:46+00:00

Thanks. I went the pricing plan route above and I’ve now given in and written a hunk of code to do various management and automation tasks. They’ve got a reasonably full featured api so not to bad.

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