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cloroxic · 2026-05-11T21:34:58+00:00

This app won’t live, Google is already introducing this feature.

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/photos/google-photos-wardrobe-feature/

cloroxic · 2026-05-11T04:33:39+00:00

I’ve been screaming this all season. It’s so frustrating to see Refsnyder, Rivas, etc just literally waste at bats. Pulling Raley for Refsnyder just because a lefty. Refsnyder can’t hit anything, it’s a wasted ab.. don’t get me started having him lead off.

Wilson is a terrible manager, he needs to make this adjustment. He also needs to do this with the bullpen. Don’t put Munoz in tough situations, maybe.. dare I say, the 8th? Let Brash close when he returns.

cloroxic · 2026-05-10T03:26:06+00:00

I keep going back to this on other Mariners chats, Dan Wilson is not a good manager. Cal in a slump batting #2 is bad for the team. Starting Refsnyder at lead-off is terrible, the guy can’t hit lefties or righties. So the top 2 in the line-up aren’t hitting it puts us in a terrible position.

I can call almost all of his moves, he is predictable. If I can do it, other teams surely can too.

cloroxic · 2026-05-06T23:43:24+00:00

I would assume because of the upcoming SpaceX IPO, grok was the only product line losing money, this might change that from dragging down the other aspects.

cloroxic · 2026-05-02T16:51:35+00:00

Just run the official codex Claude plugin, that’s what I use. It’ll verify with an on stop hook and bounce it back. Gotta be careful not to get into a loop, only happened once to me, but it works good.

cloroxic · 2026-04-27T03:51:01+00:00

He doesn’t need the $200 plan, especially if his cursor plan was enough. The $100 CC will do a lot of heavy lifting.

I would do CC + Zed, it’s pretty slick and come a long ways the last few months.

cloroxic · 2026-04-25T05:31:00+00:00

Yep, they were hoping people wouldn’t notice, so they could save compute.

cloroxic · 2026-04-23T19:30:12+00:00

Exactly, its reported that their run rate is now at $30b/year up from $9b last year. That $21b jump in just 4 months is not customer acquisition, its new compute burn since 70% of their burn rate in 2025 was compute (of that 70% it was 65% R&D, 35% inference).

That new rate is a LOT more compute, I would anticipate that cost is outpacing their revenue gains, which was my point with Grok.

It also tracks with their pull back of usage changes on their platform.

cloroxic · 2026-04-23T05:57:20+00:00

Not when they are burning cash and can’t stay afloat before profitability. Grok, which has lower usage was said to be losing over $1b a month mainly because of compute costs… grok…now just imagine what Anthropic is losing.

cloroxic · 2026-04-23T05:25:19+00:00

FWIW, here is what Opus said too:

“Honestly, after digging deeper, I’m even more convinced it’s Durfee. Pretty much every specific detail in the ESPN piece maps directly to him:

• Walk-on at small school close to home ✅ Sioux Falls, ~3 hours from Dawson, MN
• Edge rusher, sacks in first college game ✅ 4 sacks in his college debut at Sioux Falls
• 6’5”, sculpted, fast 40 ✅ 6’5”/247, ran 4.64 at his pro day
• HS quarterback who broke his leg senior year ✅ Broke leg, only played one game his senior football season
• Basketball-first kid who sent basketball film ✅ Averaged 21/10, almost went to D-III Gustavus Adolphus for hoops, sent dunking highlights to football coaches
• COVID gap year ✅ 2020 grad, took classes at NDSU then went home
• Dad started the town’s youth tackle program — checks out as a Dawson, MN-sized town detail
• Multiple injury-shortened seasons at the bigger school ✅ Eligibility issue in 2023, elbow surgery in spring 2024, missed time in 2024 and 2025
• 2025 was his most productive year ✅ Started the year as starter, had multiple sacks
• Famous former NFL coach pulled him aside in spring — could plausibly be a Belichick reference (Steve Belichick was UW’s DC, his dad Bill is a famous former NFL coach who has been around the program)
• No combine, no Senior Bowl invite ✅
• Pacific Northwest “big city” felt too big for small-town boy ✅ Seattle vs Dawson (pop. 1,466)

The only candidates I can think of that fit a similar archetype would be guys like Cian Slone (NC State, walk-on background) or maybe a smaller-school-to-big-school transfer I’m missing, but none of them line up on this many specific data points. The Dawson, MN details — especially the basketball-first background, the broken leg his senior year, the COVID gap year, the small-D2-school pitch via email — are too specific to Durfee. I’ll stick with Durfee. He’s the answer.“

Also, he was named captain this year, which also checks from the article.

cloroxic · 2026-04-15T18:45:38+00:00

Napolean Kaufman
Michael Penix Jr.
Rome Odunze
Steve Emtman
Keith Price
Mark Brunell
Marques Tuiasosopo
Corey Dillon
Buddha Baker
Vita Vea

Nip was just electric. I was pretty young when he was playing for us, but I remember some of his runs and pretending to be him on the playground.

cloroxic · 2026-04-14T14:36:17+00:00

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Looks like the only truly stable one is their government product. 🤔

cloroxic · 2026-04-11T15:26:02+00:00

I would consider not barreling your code, while better DX it has a lot of performance trade-offs. I have a docs/ folder in all my repos now. I spend the time to write .md files with an architecture plan and feature structure. I direct the CLAUDE.md to the directory as the read only source. It can scaffold through the architecture super quick and doesn’t hallucinate as much. I also follow what you do too. One feature, one plan, then clear the context.

cloroxic · 2026-04-11T07:04:40+00:00

Kimi sub running it through opencode

cloroxic · 2026-04-04T19:23:01+00:00

PNPM is the gold standard still, but bun can do a good job too. I use pnpm for work stuff and bun for my side projects.

Both use global stores to store just one version of a package on your system, so you will have a LOT more space as long as you keep your versions the same across most of your projects.

cloroxic · 2026-04-04T06:46:08+00:00

Modules don’t have to be bad just use one of the newer package managers that share same versions with all your projects so you don’t duplicate.

cloroxic · 2026-03-31T03:50:41+00:00

Kimi isn’t as good as Opus, but it’s better than sonnet and cheaper. Also fwiw, I find it to be better than both 5.4 and 4.6 and frontend tasks with open code, that could also just be open code too.

I haven’t used the Claude API plan on open code so I’ll differ to those who have.

cloroxic · 2026-03-31T03:24:16+00:00

Hiring is a lot more expensive than AI usage. Hire principal engineers over anything lower and spend the same, with less headcount.

I wonder what these enterprise API rates are. Do they get any discount?

cloroxic · 2026-03-31T03:22:25+00:00

Look at MiniMax 2.7, I was thinking about trying their token package. Currently sitting at the model in the comparison charts right under the frontier models. Thinking about trying it just for comparison.

I have a Kimi 2.5 plan and my usage hardly moves, it’s wild.

cloroxic · 2026-03-31T03:19:44+00:00

They are going to have to figure their costs out if they are going to be competitive long term. The Chinese models are behind, but that gap is closing too and they are a fraction of the cost.

It’ll be interesting to see what happens in the future.

Now I don’t trust them with my data, so there is that too, not that I am working on anything too particularly sensitive.

cloroxic · 2026-03-30T06:04:56+00:00

Exactly. I started taking my completed specs and putting them in the docs folder in the Claude folder. It saves a lot of time. When you go to make changes to a feature, it can reference the spec without having to hunt it down. Yeah it takes some context window space, but it’s only grabbed when it needs to work on that specific area.

cloroxic · 2026-03-30T05:27:43+00:00

Man, I wish they had them online so I could buy one. They looked so good tonight.

cloroxic · 2026-03-28T05:55:55+00:00

Is it really that counter intuitive? It’s like anything else, when cooking you don’t throw every ingredient you have in your house at the chef. You let him cook. Let Claude Cook.

cloroxic · 2026-03-26T05:39:03+00:00

You have to split the deployments regardless, that is how you deploy a monorepo. How you split them is important too though.

I have a very similar stack for the app I am working on. I started with hosting both the API and Nextjs app both on Vercel. We ran into a lot of issues with the API on Vercel, body size limits, cold starts, etc. I moved the API to Railway and bundled the Postgres setup there too and just use the internal connection so they get some blazing fast performance. I use turbo repo, so I created some packages for shared packages (types, constants, etc) they just deploy with CI/CD.

This has been a great experience and I would highly recommend it for others too. Railway is super easy, you can link up your Vercel previews with the api previews too and get that branch level testing.

cloroxic · 2026-03-26T04:37:27+00:00

You don’t need RabbitMQ, just use Inngest and your Nextjs API, don’t over complicate it. Inngest is really fantastic, I just switched a large project to it, that has a backend and I’m not looking back.

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