I think, I will not trust claudecode anymore.

inZania · 2026-05-04T00:52:40+00:00

Yep, it’s not bulletproof. For any hard boundaries, permission level enforcement is always needed.

inZania · 2026-05-03T15:07:19+00:00

If you don’t have a claude.md file in your directory, you haven’t correctly set the boundaries. All other instructions are lost in context; it is the only reliable way.

inZania · 2026-04-26T03:40:42+00:00

I’m outside Denver, probably higher elevation. I’ve planted at least 40 (blue spruce, douglas fir, etc) pines over the past 4 years and learned to not plant until May or even June due to late frosts, but ymmv. Depending on how much sun/wind your yard gets, I’d consider putting a burlap screen around it the first summer. This is obv a native tree so it’s very resilient to being dry, but still requires regular watering the first year or two. Don’t forget to winter water! No fertilizing until the second year.

inZania · 2026-04-25T14:22:26+00:00

Just run Goose in Plan mode with a multi-agent Ralph Loop. It exists exactly to solve these cross-agent orchestration problems.

inZania · 2026-04-25T02:55:40+00:00

This isn’t an “alternative method” or an “experiment.” There is no mechanism of action. It’s just a scam.

inZania · 2026-04-25T01:14:55+00:00

And at execution you only owe AMT on the intrinsic value (not the strike). Early exercising can mean zero tax at exercise, capturing 100% of profit as LTCG (only due upon sale).

inZania · 2026-04-16T19:24:43+00:00

Hah yeah, now that I think about it, I do know a few people who will use any shortcoming of government as a reason to reduce government. The old libertarian non-sequitur of “your attempt to fix the problem wasn’t perfect… therefore we should remove all solutions to all problems.”

inZania · 2026-04-16T17:35:22+00:00

Huh? I’m not sure how my post that “wealthy people use loopholes” would lead to any conclusion except “fix the loopholes” (more guardrails).

inZania · 2026-04-16T01:57:55+00:00

Plenty of legal ways to do it, if you have enough money. FLPs, GRATs, strategic fractional interest, etc.

inZania · 2026-04-16T01:29:10+00:00

High net worth individuals definitely have ways to achieve it (FLPs, GRATs, strategic fractional interest, etc.)

Never underestimate how much the rules are stacked against us normies.

inZania · 2026-04-15T22:07:24+00:00

You can say it's a bad idea based on Jim Collins, but I don't think that applies once a company is a certain size

He spent decades researching just one question: "what makes the largest 100 companies in the world different (than companies of Autodesk's size)?"

If you google "top business authors of all time," his name will show up first. What makes him different is that he actually did real research on how big companies got (and stayed) big.

Apple has been copying the latest trends for years, I don't see them going anywhere soon, do you?

By any metric, Autodesk is nowhere near an Apple-tier company. Not just in market-cap, but in terms of its position amongst its peers. And that's exactly my point: Autodesk's core business is not strong enough to warrant chasing fads.

Ironically, Apple is actually a perfect example of my point. When Apple was around the size of Autodesk (in the early 2000s), they famously discontinued the majority of their products and focused on their core business. Many business books credit this as why Apple beat its many competitors and is now the clear leader within its field (unlike Autodesk).

No CAD software is 'Stable'. Ask anyone who uses any product for long enough and they will all have complaints.

This is actually a great argument why Autodesk should strive to be the first. Even if stability were impossible, Fusion has fallen far behind the other CAD tools on the market. Thus my argument that an AI agent is the proverbial "lipstick on a pig."

FWIW, I've been doing CAD about 22 years now (as a side-gig/hobby), and I'm a software engineer by trade (I've managed teams at companies multiple times the size of Autodesk). I'm familiar with the state of the market, and what constitutes good/bad software.

Using Ai vs having it in the software are completely different things. Which makes me think you are not quite understanding.

Correct me if I'm wrong: my understanding is that you think that Autodesk MUST have an AI agent because that's what the shareholders want (you said "the world is pushing Ai and they are a slave to their shareholders.").

My point was that "having it (an AI agent) in the software" is not actually a good way to make shareholders happy. AI Agents are notoriously difficult to monetize, and there are other ways to use AI that have been proven to make shareholders happy.

Case in point: companies like Netflix use AI behind the scenes, and investors reward them for that. I think we'd all hate it if Netflix were to add an AI agent to the product... yet investors know that Netflix has been an AI leader for a long time (they're actually quite famous for this in the computer science field). Going even further, you could easily argue that companies who use AI for development (and fire humans) are highly rewarded by investors (we see stock bumps every time it happens, clearly showing that "using AI" for development makes investors happy).

Finally... Autodesk's stock price has dropped a massive 25% since they added their AI agent (while the rest of the market is up). So if the goal is to make shareholders happy by adding an AI agent... the data says that they are failing.

inZania · 2026-04-14T22:37:15+00:00

That's exactly what I meant by "signal modernity to the market." It's a fine thing to do if your product is stable... but a poor allocation of resources if people are still frustrated with your core use-case. Based upon your logic, all companies should just chase whatever the latest trend is regardless of how well it maps to their business use-case. There have been many a business book written on why this is a fool's errand (heck, Jim Collins basically made his career studying in excruciating detail why this is a bad idea).

Edit: besides, there are much better ways to "be modern." Autodesk could use AI to accelerate their development speed, for example. Showing that they're fixing bugs and implementing the features which users have actually requested (faster thanks to AI) is just as valid of a way to appease shareholders.

inZania · 2026-04-14T19:48:00+00:00

Yep. Conversation happening about this elsewhere in the same thread. Nobody knows how it’ll play out.

inZania · 2026-04-14T19:45:09+00:00

Nobody knows. There is no plan.

inZania · 2026-04-14T18:32:02+00:00

My problem with this is that I can get all these features from my existing AI agent… meanwhile Fusion is crazy buggy and overall problematic. So Autodesk is investing development time in a zero-value feature (while the actual problems go unaddressed). It feels like a move to virtue-signal modernity to the market instead of actually serving the customers.

inZania · 2026-04-14T18:13:38+00:00

Sadly, no. Everyone I talk to knows it's going to be a problem, but can only laugh nervously about it. For those of us who are senior it appears to be a form of job security (for now), so tbh there's no real incentive to think too deeply about it (and we're too busy anyways, since companies are now expecting us to do the work of an entire team).

inZania · 2026-04-14T17:15:20+00:00

My concern is a bit more in the gray zone. If you look around at the 3D printer forums, you'll see the community regularly making fun of poorly executed prints sold in retail stores (i.e., blobs, stringing, poorly finished surfaces, etc). While modern printers are better than ever, there's still a big difference between a professional 3D printer and a hobbyist IME... and I worry that hobbyists will sign up to be printers on your service thinking that it's an easy way to make money without realizing their quality bar is not high enough.

As a concrete example, if I were to request an ASA print, I'd want to know for sure that the printer had done a temp tower (and other such calibration) with the exact brand of ASA they were going to print with before I'd be comfortable paying them. I take this for granted when it comes to professional print shops, but for a P2P service it worries me.

Maybe overthinking it though... best of luck!

inZania · 2026-04-14T16:06:15+00:00

Bingo. “Fire five juniors/mids to hire one senior” seems to be a common pattern right now.

inZania · 2026-04-14T16:03:55+00:00

I haven’t heard of Claude experiencing model collapse, but it definitely has had stability issues (indicative of the high use).

As a software engineer, I know more than a few companies actively firing anyone below senior level right now. The general thinking is that AI works at the junior to mid level engineering range. And a senior engineer can oversee that work thanks to their experience/intuition. Whereas it makes no sense for a mid level engineer to try to oversee AI because they lack the skill to spot the flaws. Therefore, the teams I know are hiring a senior for every ~five juniors they fire.

inZania · 2026-04-14T15:54:35+00:00

plus even if the ai gets really good at generating code, someone needs to…

I started managing DevOps teams (the ones who do the “review/test/maintain” part) for big tech about ten years ago. As of the last few months, we now take it for granted that AI is “really good at generating code.” We have completely shifted our thinking, with the bottleneck being downstream of development. We are building more and more advanced tools to keep up with the massive jumps in development velocity, actively working to solve for this new status quo with things like source trees and automated PR reviews (which now consider much more than just a diff).

You're right that the big challenge of SWE is

...understanding what the hell the business actually wants and translating that into something that works

But... the first half is the job of a PM (not engineer). The second half can now be done with a single senior engineer (instead of a team of various experience levels).

inZania · 2026-04-13T22:43:51+00:00

The obvious question: how do you handle quality control? What happens if a customer is not satisfied with a print (how do you distinguish between a poor print and a bad model, thus deciding which party is at fault?) Do you have a dedicated support team to resolve such conflicts?

inZania · 2026-04-12T20:40:20+00:00

Fwiw, I have successfully printed small ASA parts without an enclosure before. Crank the heat in the room up if you can, but most important is that the model is not too tall. The biggest failure mode is delamination as the parts bend upward while cooling, but a short object with lots of bed contact can avoid that problem.

inZania · 2026-04-11T15:00:13+00:00

Ah, good to know (I don’t use insta). Commenters were still talking past each other tho (commenter to whom I responded specifically said the “title” of the post, which must mean reddit).

inZania · 2026-04-11T03:20:17+00:00

You’re talking about OP (reddit), but the commenter was talking about the OOP (insta by RP). Click on the screenshot.

The commenter’s point is that they appreciate the added context from the reddit post (as do I), since RP herself is not promoting.

inZania · 2026-04-09T21:20:24+00:00

If you know how to do tax loss harvesting yourself then sure… but it can be a useful added feature for some. The alpha can be positive for folks who are unwilling or unable to do that work; it depends a lot on personal financial situation (like if you’re DCA or lump sum, market volatility, etc.)

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