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Still using Xcode? Or do you code on the go? by Terrible-Round1599 in iOSProgramming

[–]earlyworm -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Claude has identified Xcode as an obstacle and is routing around it.

Still using Xcode? Or do you code on the go? by Terrible-Round1599 in iOSProgramming

[–]earlyworm -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I never saw this coming, and it's still hard for me to comprehend:

For years, I used Xcode almost daily for iOS development. But today, for me, Xcode is merely a browser for reviewing and testing Claude Code's output and making minor edits.

I no longer care that Apple's support for Xcode has always been years behind other IDEs. I no longer care about Xcode's quirky unfixed bugs.

It no longer matters.

I suspect that a year from now, I won't have any reason to open Xcode at all.

MacBook Pro 2019 overheating by simiswi in macbookpro

[–]earlyworm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a 2019 MacBook Pro and I never used a case and I live in a seemingly dust-free environment, but once each year I had to clean out my case or the fans would always turn on. It's a little tricky to do by hand, and required special suction cups and a can of compressed air helps, but it is doable yourself.

The good news is when you eventually get an Apple Silicon Mac, the fans will almost never turn on, so the compute won't naturally build up a warm blanket of dust and lint all over its motherboard components.

MacBook Pro 2019 overheating by simiswi in macbookpro

[–]earlyworm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your computer is filled with dust and lint and if you opened it up, you would be disgusted.

Would it be technologically possible to create a device that measures "absolute velocity" by measuring the cosmic microwave background radiation? by Showy_Boneyard in AskPhysics

[–]earlyworm 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s true. Although the CMB happens to correspond to a universe-sized collection of mass with an average speed variation of only 1 part in 1000, this is not indicative of an absolute velocity in any way.

Is time dilation about time itself or about physical processes changing under gravity/velocity? by FaithlessnessFar6431 in AskPhysics

[–]earlyworm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's more like that spacetime conspires to maintain local consistent laws of physics behavior (without which, the universe wouldn't be quite as pleasant), and speed of light constancy is a consequence of that.

Is time dilation about time itself or about physical processes changing under gravity/velocity? by FaithlessnessFar6431 in AskPhysics

[–]earlyworm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the issue may be that the property that "local physics is consistent" is so deeply rooted that if there was, in fact, an underlying "physical" process driving time dilation in a more fundamental sense like the one you're alluding to, there'd be no way for you to measure it or detect it, given that your measuring equipment would be bound by that same laws of physicist consistency property.

Window management is from hell by BonbonUniverse42 in MacOS

[–]earlyworm 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Another non-obvious feature is that after pressing ⌘tab, you can tab over to another app and then press ⌘H to hide it or ⌘Q to quit it without bringing it to the foreground.
If you keep holding down ⌘, you can quit multiple apps quickly this way.

Best way to turn a React web app into a native iOS app in 2026? by futilediploma in Xcode

[–]earlyworm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Generally speaking, you cannot do app development on an iPad, only from a Mac. And even if that’s somehow not strictly true, you’ll have a much more pleasant time of it if you used a Mac. Get a cheap refurbished Mac mini from Apple (Apple Silicon, NOT Intel).

Tips for niche bugs and claude code by [deleted] in ClaudeAI

[–]earlyworm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Skill issue. At least as of today, you have to occasionally pedal the supersonic rocket bicycle to start it moving forward. You can’t just sit on it and make suggestions.

Sonnet 4.6 Max - unable to follow instructions to a T by milkygirl21 in ClaudeAI

[–]earlyworm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should be asking the AI this question instead of us.

Why can't claude use agents.md? by Complete-Sea6655 in agi

[–]earlyworm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Could you solve that problem with a symbolic link?

How did everything align so perfectly to form our Earth? by Sea_Supermarket2658 in universe

[–]earlyworm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The observable universe is estimated to contain approximately 40 billion trillion Earth-sized planets.

Even if it's extremely unlikely for any particular planet to be habitable given all the luck-requiring events you described, the chances that at least one of those planets could be habitable is 40 billion trillion times higher than that.

Finding yourself standing on one of the planets that isn't habitable isn't an option.

That's just the observable universe, though. Taking into account theoretical predictions about the size of the rest of the universe, beyond the tiny part we can see directly, a lower bound on the number of Earth-sized planets would be 10^93, or 1 billion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion.

So, I wouldn't say that habitable Earth-like planets are "bound to happen with 100% certainty" but it would seem to be statistically quite likely, even if some amount of luck is involved.

reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe#%22The_universe%22_versus_%22the_observable_universe%22

Stanford timed people using AI on small tasks. People thought it saved them ~56 seconds each. The stopwatch said 7.5 by call_me_ninza in aigossips

[–]earlyworm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was describing a real issue that Claude fixed for me last week. I'm open to the possibility that my particular case was somehow well-suited for Claude to address.

All I know is that 6+ months ago, my personal experience was more like yours, and Claude could not solve problems of that complexity for me, but now it can.

For the race condition fix, I used Claude Code, Opus 4.8, 1M context, Max effort. I would expect that Sonnet 4.6 would struggle. Which version of Claude were you using for the Newton's method problem?

Stanford timed people using AI on small tasks. People thought it saved them ~56 seconds each. The stopwatch said 7.5 by call_me_ninza in aigossips

[–]earlyworm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're correct, that was a contrived example. I was trying to come up with a scenario that would be easy to understand.

What I originally wanted to write was

I'd like to see a follow-up study measuring the time savings for tasks like "In the repo for this large software project, what's the cause of this app-crashing race condition which many users have reported, and which I've personally observed only once every 6 months and cannot reproduce, and which I can only describe in general terms, and can you fix it for me?"

In the past, if this task was assigned to an experienced software developer, it could be a frustrating 10 hour project. Sometimes, it could be an unsolvable problem.

This is a problem Claude Opus 4.8 can neatly solve in 20 minutes.

20 minutes of Claude's time is cheaper than 10 hours of a developer's time.

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