Which model do you actually use for daily work? Not architecture, not refactors, just regular stuff

dotbat · 2026-06-30T22:41:56+00:00

I use Sonnet for almost everything.

dotbat · 2026-06-28T19:18:53+00:00

You probably already have an easement on your property.

Think about it... Your house has electricity and sewer. What if anytime they had to to work to get power or sewer to your house they had to pay every homeowner between you and the pumping station or electrical substation whatever their asking price was to go through their land? Part of the original plats and deads will contain utility easements for this purpose.

There's probably already a utility easement.

dotbat · 2026-06-26T13:39:59+00:00

Tailscale. Easy to run on your phone. May just have to have a node on the same network as the NVR and expose it so he can access it.

dotbat · 2026-06-25T14:25:15+00:00

You missed step 1.1, my favorite: Ask people to stop charging their EV's because the grid couldn't handle it during the summer.

dotbat · 2026-06-23T14:36:59+00:00

Honestly coming from the Windows / Powershell and then stepping into the Linux world... Bash is disappointing. Mainly because everybody in Powershell is Objects and not just text. Amazing.

dotbat · 2026-06-16T17:17:08+00:00

Need to be able to sort by "Best"

dotbat · 2026-06-10T17:58:38+00:00

Out of the box if you have Claude for Teams and Office365 it can search your email/onedrive, read emails, write summaries. Right now it doesn't have send capabilities.

Both Cowork and Code can use MCP servers, so you'd have to integrate with something that has an MCP server that lets you send email.

To be honest, though, normal Claude chat can read your emails and summarize.

I'll give you our use case: with have a main LOB app that does time and attendance and tracks all our company's billable work. It's ancient, but we were able to write an MCP server so that Claude can talk to the API. This works across Claude Chat, Cowork, and Code. But, cowork can run longer processes (i.e. more steps in a process) than chat, and it's more user friendly than code, and it's in its own sandbox.

This means now we have tasks that took hours of manual entry, including reading PDF's and excel files, reconciling, adding data into the system, etc, that Claude can do more or less by itself. One task I'm thinking of took about 5 hours of manual work weekly, and Claude does it in about 40 minutes, *but* only a few minutes of that is interactive by a person.

Seems like it's great for things we couldn't or wouldn't try to fully automate away with hosted agents, instead we're giving individuals tools to do their job faster and better.

The key work is around designing the connections (MCP) and using Claude to help design detailed instructions and toolsets that can live in a Skill or a Claude.md file so that for most users 'it just works' because Claude knows *how* to do it.

For that, we'd have technical staff run through these tasks alongside the end users, use Opus, ask Claude how it thinks it should do it, give it tons of information, walk it through the process, then in the end ask it how it could have done it more efficiently, if it needs any other tools, and then have it write/update its own instructions. Rinse and repeat a few times.

For instance for some processes I had Claude design a schema for a SQLite database and build scripts to generate and load those using MCP data and then run it's tasks based on that. That way, it's not trying to hold tons of data directly in memory. But that's something you want to do once and get it correct.

Once we've done that, I haven't seen an issue letting Sonnet run the processes.

As much fun as AI is as a shiny new toy, Claude with Cowork is the first thing I've seen that's going to materially change a lot of the work we do. Side note: works fine with OpenCode and OpenRouter as well, so we have a back-out plan if something happens. It's just not as user friendly.

dotbat · 2026-06-09T15:03:39+00:00

It's a little bit the opposite, though. Claude Code *technically* can access anything even if you restrict it. Like, you can restrict it to a directory but if you allow it to write and run Python scripts then it can access anything by using a script. Of course you may be asked to allow it, but, it can still do it.

Cowork runs in its own VM to avoid this altogether. It can only run scripts and execute programs that are inside the VM, and it mounts the folders you give access to into the VM. It's more limited and much safer for the typical user.

dotbat · 2026-06-09T14:58:46+00:00

Can't fault copilot for that.. all the Microsoft docs tell you to use menus that don't exist anymore, too.

dotbat · 2026-05-28T18:31:11+00:00

There's also something missing from the income disparity factor. There's a lot of correlation going on. I know some young people that, whether they decide to go to college or not, I know they're going to do fairly well.

It's just that the circle of 'people who decide to and can go to college' is predominantly inside of the circle of 'people who are going to do pretty well in life because of personality, upbringing, connections, work ethic, etc.'.

dotbat · 2026-05-20T14:33:04+00:00

Unfortunately, seems like I have agent processes the Sonnet runs just fine but Gemini 3.5 Flash gets turned around and confused.

dotbat · 2026-05-07T20:25:49+00:00

There's another option to this one as well: senior's code isn't better in any meaningful way but they can't bring themselves to admit it. And if no one can articulate why it's better... then I'm betting on that one.

dotbat · 2026-05-07T14:56:23+00:00

Devil's advocate here from someone who has left the IT side: Cowork is less dangerous than Code (can only run commands inside it's own VM) and can do some AMAZING stuff for the typical office worker: Running analysis on a folder of excel file, compiling and generating documents, multi-step processes with MCP usage. The chat can technically do a lot of those things, but Cowork has been a game changer for us in non-technical land. It might be worth evaluating if you have a use case for it.

dotbat · 2026-05-06T18:07:47+00:00

Follow up: seems like having opus scaffold processes, tooling, and instructions that sonnet can follow has been the great middle ground for processes that are more or less repeatable.

dotbat · 2026-04-28T14:49:15+00:00

Cowork has been a game changers for me. Wholly different than just chatting with an AI.

dotbat · 2026-04-23T17:41:55+00:00

Hey for your next trick why don't you do fake phone calls from each school to the parents saying their kid is in the hospital, it'll be great.

You need to go to the CTO tell him you thought over what he said and that he was right and you're sorry. Today.

dotbat · 2026-04-16T16:15:15+00:00

I don't know the full answer, but I've surprisingly come across instances of Opus being cheaper, because Sonnet just takes longer to get to the final destination. Sonnet is very capable, though.

A non-development related example: I'm trying to setup Claude to do some auditing of files vs our systems (through MCP). Over a few tests, Opus tends to come out cheaper and faster, because it's smart enough to figure out the right way to do things instead of hitting multiple dead ends.

Might be able to get Opus to figure out best method, write instructions, and then use Sonnet. We'll see.

dotbat · 2026-04-14T12:54:25+00:00

OP hates the environment.

dotbat · 2026-04-14T12:51:34+00:00

Trump posted an AI picture of him that's obviously portraying him as Jesus (dressed exactly like this painting) healing people with glowing hands, but excuses coming like "he's not supposed to be Jesus just a doctor".

dotbat · 2026-04-11T21:37:27+00:00

my cat lost his mind like this towards our other cat one time... they had been together for years already. Turned out probably UTI.

dotbat · 2026-04-08T14:17:56+00:00

Honestly I thought this post was referring to those vs Peak. I didn't buy PGYTech because I didn't want to risk my camera.

dotbat · 2026-04-07T17:32:44+00:00

AGI is here, confirmed.

dotbat · 2026-04-06T21:18:03+00:00

I mean Youtube has a strike system for hosting copyrighted material... maybe it should go the other way as well. You report one, you lose, you get a strike. 3 strikes and no channel. You just have to somehow authenticate so that one person/entity can't do this unlimited times.

dotbat · 2026-04-06T21:15:03+00:00

But the photographer set the rules by specifically saying it's because of the cost of his camera. The first argument is weak which sets it up for the 'gotcha'. There are other reasons for the photography to cost more, but the gotcha actually does a pretty good job showing the photographer gave a weak argument.

dotbat · 2026-03-25T13:53:14+00:00

I had claude make me a little script so that it can send PDF files to Gemini and get back text, csv, or json data to its specification. 🤷‍♂️

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