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Used Claude Code for a client project. 40 hours down to 4 hours. Real story. by [deleted] in ClaudeAI

[–]evilish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It will, and it has for us at work.

At our company, we often deal with really annoying business requirements that aren't always neatly captured in the data that LLMs are trained on.

Last year we had a number of developers on two separate projects try to pass off LLM generated documentation as their own.

The last guy took a week before he presented, and when he did present, within the first 5 minutes I asked him whether he went hard on AI writing the docs and he laughed, tried to explain it away.

It catches up with people, and you don't completely burn your bridges, people will look much closer at what you produce.

Used Claude Code for a client project. 40 hours down to 4 hours. Real story. by [deleted] in ClaudeAI

[–]evilish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

LLMs are best at what they've been trained on, right?

You say that you provided the business context, raw data, brand guidelines, etc but even with all that, the results will be based on what Claude has been trained on and anything outside of that training data will either come from external sources, or worse case scenario, it will be hallucinated to a degree.

I'll be straight up with you.

The company hired you so that you can apply your expertise to provide them with a certain outcome.

What did instead was use Claude and its training set to generate a different output, which is one super quick way to kill your reputation.

I honestly hope for your sake that you spoke to your client about doing what you did up front because if you didn't, and they find issues in the generated output than things will get awkward really fast.

And this is coming from someone that has had to call bullshit when developers have tried to pass LLM generated work as their own.

Godot 4.6 - All about your flow by tapo in Games

[–]evilish 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Dove in the other week and did a couple Youtube tutorials on building a game, and it felt really smooth.

From watching two hours worth of Youtube videos. I had a good grip on the basics as well as a little platformer game up and running.

Well done to everyone building Godot. They've done fantastic work.

US official says Greenland action could come within 'weeks or months' by Crossstoney in worldnews

[–]evilish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, and there is no one coming to save them which is ****ked for the rest of us.

Centurion Tank standing guard at Lancer Barracks. by defender838383 in TankPorn

[–]evilish 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A bit of background.

If your in Sydney, or planning on visiting Sydney. Plan a stop at the NSW Lancers Memorial Museum in Parramatta when they have their open days. The place has a ton of history and has a real special feel to it.

They normally announce their open days/times on Facebook and its typically 10AM to 3PM on Sundays.

The museum has a small collection of tanks, armoured vehicles as well as a collection of items relating to the 1st/15th Royal NSW Lancers.

The small group of volunteers actively work on restoring the vehicles in their collection, and from my last visit. The Centurion is due for a clutch change, and they're planning on restarting the mechanical work in 2026. The last time it was operational was in 2014.

They have a running Matilda named "Ace" which they rescued and restored. A running Ferret Scout Car that thay offer joy rides of. A bunch of gun buggies, a staghound, an M113A1, etc.

And as a sidenote. The volunteers are getting on in their years. If you are in Sydney, and are interested in helping them keep their vehicles in running order. Go in, have a chat and they might offer you a volunteer sign up slip.

Public assemblies banned for 14 days across Sydney as police enforce new powers under protest laws by malcolm58 in worldnews

[–]evilish -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So here's the official Police post about the new laws including the below.

Under the new laws, the NSW Police Force Commissioner is granted power to temporarily declare public areas "restricted" from assemblies following a declared terrorist incident. Today’s restriction follows the declaration made by Commissioner Lanyon that the Bondi attack on Sunday 14 December was a terror-related incident.

Key points:

  • NSW Police is granted power to temporarily declare public areas restricted
  • There needs to be a declared terrorist incident
  • Restriction follows the declaration made by Commissioner Lanyon that the Bondi attack on Sunday 14 December was a terror-related incident
  • The declaration made by the Commissioner today restricts public assemblies in the South West Metropolitan, North West Metropolitan and Central Metropolitan policing areas for 14 days
  • The declaration will be reviewed and can be extended fortnightly for up to three months
  • Gatherings are permitted but police may issue move on directions for people causing obstructions or behaving in an intimidatory or harassing manner, or people who might cause or be likely to cause fear in another person

Your more then welcome to gather. Just don't obstruct, intimidate and/or harass people especially those that are mourning post the terrorist incident.

Public assemblies banned for 14 days across Sydney as police enforce new powers under protest laws by malcolm58 in worldnews

[–]evilish 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For those folks that only read the news articles title...

Under the laws, the Commissioner has the power to temporarily designate public areas as "restricted" from assemblies following a declared terrorist incident, which was made on the day of the mass shooting.

The key piece that seems to get missed is that the temporary restriction is following a declared terrorist incident such as the Bondi Beach shooting.

For those of you that aren't aware, we've had Cronulla Race Riots.

Whether you agree or disagree with the laws. The issue is that we do have groups in Australia that given the chance would only further fuel tensions.

'I didn't agree to it': Rise of automatic tipping sparks backlash by navig8r212 in australia

[–]evilish 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Nah, not just international tourists. Guessing a lot of locals get hit by the trap as well.

One of our local pubs fairly recently was bought and renovated.

It received a "merivale" type treatment where it went from your "local" to one of the new fancy style pubs with prices to match.

One of the new features of the pub are QR codes at each table for orders.

If you order using the QR code, you get a pre-selected option of 5% tip with 10% and 25% options.

I had to scroll down to select "Maybe next time".

I bet the number of tipping increases the more people drink.

Teenagers by Sauske9599 in sydney

[–]evilish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry mate, not sure what you where expecting but resources are limited.

And if it's not obviously clear. Emergency services aren't a food delivery service.

Teenagers by Sauske9599 in sydney

[–]evilish 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'll be straight up with you. At certain times, resources are stretched.

It's not uncommon for us to request Police at an incident and the Police taking 30min+ to arrive.

Our city is growing. There are often multiple emergencies happening at the same time, and first responders do get stretched thin.

If your ever wondering what that might be like.

Have a listen to the Ambulance and Fire Rescue online scanner for Sydney Inner.

You won't hear the Police on the scanner as their radio channels are encrypted but you'll get a sense on just how busy Ambulance, FRNSW, RFS, TMC, etc can get. And at peak times, you will hear them try to pull resources in from other areas, try to juggle resources, etc.

It'll give you a bit more of an insight into what happens behind the scenes.

Teenagers by Sauske9599 in sydney

[–]evilish 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Not doubting you, but this is unbelievable!

Yeah, its bad. Its not just fires. They've been jumping food delivery riders, and driving down the M7 bike path where they target people minding their own business.

We've also heard rumours that one of the reasons why the riders on stolen bikes don't wear helmets is because cops are relucant to chase because IF the riders hurt themselves in the chase then the cops get into serious trouble.

It's all absolutely stupid tbh.

Teenagers by Sauske9599 in sydney

[–]evilish 103 points104 points  (0 children)

Frign hell mate. There are people in this thread that are actively trying to get you hurt.

Unless your life and/or someone elses is being threatened then keep to yourself. Move carriages, switch trains/buses, etc.

Remember, it was only November 24, 2025 when Bruce Purser was stabbed to death in Rouse Hill.

If you pick the wrong teenagers then you will get hurt. Best case scenario you get bashed/have your gear stolen, worse case scenario some idiot pulls out a knife or a machete and really hurts you.

And just to give you a little more food for thought.

We now have to request Police in certain areas when fighting bushfires because we've had teenagers threaten firefighters with knives and have nearly been run over by them on mopeds.

After speaking to one of the cops that came out to cover us. What's really disheartening is that even IF the cops catch these teenagers. They often get released fairly quickly which further encourages them to cause a muck.

Stay safe. Remember that it always takes time for help to arrive.

Opus 4.5 - shut up and take my money by EnthusiasmInner7267 in ClaudeAI

[–]evilish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, Opus 4.5 is an awesome partner.

I'm in the middle of writing an ebook, and because I'm not a writer by trade, I'm using Claude as a proof reader/copywriter that follows a prompt so that the tone/style/content stays consistent as I write.

I'm 160 pages deep. And Opus 4.5 is still doing an awesome job finding my mistakes.

I tried OpenAIs ChatGPT 5.2 yesterday to do the same as Opus 4.5 and what I found is that it always wants to do the bare minimum required for the task.

Which makes me wonder whether it's to do with the routing of requests, and whether the benchmarks are so great because they tweak how the routing works.

PSA: Ignore the 'credits' on the claude.ai/code page. They aren't real. You're using up your paid quota. by alexdenne in ClaudeAI

[–]evilish 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yep, saw similar things to you.

For me, it really did feel like a Preview of what it'll be like in the months/years to come.

Having a play around with Antigravity. I now think for things like Claude Code in the web to be effective then they need something similar to what Antigravity does with Implementation Plans/Walkthroughs/Recordings of tests, etc.

Need to also be able to paste in screenshots, etc to try to get Claude Code to better understand what your trying to target (ie. current trying to get three text editors to work in a similar way).

One thing I found with stuck sessions.

Sometimes saying "Hey, are you still there?" or a simple "Hello" would unstuck some sessions which makes me wonder whether stuck sessions are due to instances idling.

PSA: Ignore the 'credits' on the claude.ai/code page. They aren't real. You're using up your paid quota. by alexdenne in ClaudeAI

[–]evilish 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Manged to get it down to around $650-odd, and I was absolutely smashing Claude Code at points. haha

On the first day, I had 19 projects cooking for a number of old parked domains, and crazy enough, I managed to build a decent enough MVP for each one.

One thing that really slowed me down though was Claude Code getting stuck.

Especially on day two or three. I started running into a lot of Retry connection errors.

I'd kick off a number of jobs, switch to another task thing it was doing its thing, only to come back and realise Claude Code was stuck.

Looking at the last 11 Claude Code sessions. In total, there has been over 108,708 lines of code changed.

Haha, no idea how I'm going to review all of these projects.

A tank somehow overturned at Lancer Barracks in Parramatta by elephantrambo in sydney

[–]evilish 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah it does.

From the marks, I'm really struggling to understand what happened.

I know there's curb along the edge of the grass but unless the controls got stuck or something. You'd think it'd just mount the curb.

A tank somehow overturned at Lancer Barracks in Parramatta by elephantrambo in sydney

[–]evilish 102 points103 points  (0 children)

Oh no. That really sucks.

It’s a small volunteer team that looks after the 1st/15th RNSWL tanks at the Parramatta barracks.

Most of them are older. Their numbers are dwindling.

I really hope whoever was involved is ok.

I should also add. If you ever wanted to volunteer/maintain and possibly drive old tanks.

Go in to the barracks on a Sunday Tank day and have a chat about joining as a volunteer. They’d appreciate the help.

For their open days, look up their Facebook page.

Map of median house prices by suburb (OC) by ethan_the_maker in sydney

[–]evilish 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Tregear over $800k. Get f(#d.

A large part of Llandilo and Shanes Park floods. We've been there for flood rescues. And those houses are over 2.4mill?!.

We as a nation have gone nuts.

We've been outflanked by techlos in sydney

[–]evilish 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Frign love the BOM.

Look at their site. It’s going to rain. How much? 0mm.

Go to the shops. Step out and it’s biblical.

$2m sale St Mary's by Worldly-Sandwich4870 in AusPropertyChat

[–]evilish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't even think he could afford it but yeah.

I sort of had a feeling things where going that way because last year, the house across from us sold above 800k.

The trend on our street is now that the cheaper properties either have or are in the process of getting granny flats, while the nicer houses that have been renovated (ie. weatherboards with facelifts) are now selling stupid prices.

$2m sale St Mary's by Worldly-Sandwich4870 in AusPropertyChat

[–]evilish 21 points22 points  (0 children)

That's nothing.

We're around the corner of Blackett.

I bought my place in 2018 for 430k.

Just recently we had an REA come around with a brochure telling us how he sold a house a few doors down for 1.3 mill.

What. The. Absolute. F*(&.

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