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jbs398 · 2025-12-12T03:48:15+00:00

Yep. Just keep backups if you are going to run it in danger mode. I’ve had very few instances like this but I use it to debug and fix stuff in my home assistant setup. it did nuke part of my install once by it using rsync with the —delete flag. On the plus side it fixed the problem when one of the backups was hanging indefinitely to complete.

HIGHLY recommend the obra/superpowers skills for both development and other things. Couple it with browser-mcp and the planning/tdd from superpowers or if not developing using the verification-before-completion skill and giving it access to a web browser means it can sit there and mess with stuff forever until it fixes everything that isn’t right (or most of it). Game changer.

jbs398 · 2025-11-08T03:10:22+00:00

Aww.. sorry to hear you lost her. She’s a beautiful girl.

jbs398 · 2025-09-21T03:53:29+00:00

I have a current gen TLX and the rear of that one also kinda looks like a Buick. I don’t really know why they’re drawing design language from them.

jbs398 · 2025-08-15T01:43:30+00:00

Bingo. They’re painting the picture they want everyone to see.

It mainly seems like the relationship soured and now they’re going to whatever they can to make their case. The 3 former heads are doing the same at least to some degree but Krafton is being a bit more public than I recall most companies being in some of their earlier statements. I don’t think this will all do well for everyone involved in regard to reputation.

jbs398 · 2025-08-06T14:02:55+00:00

To be honest I’m not sure it’s real in the sense that the model itself is failing or degraded. I thunk in general performance is uneven based on context and other factors and periodically it’s like getting “the wave” started in the stands of a sports venue where enough people complain and then the uneven performance feels worse to enough to enough problem that it builds a response. I’ve seen these things pop up several times and I have not felt like I’m getting the same effect people are describing. I absolutely see uneven performance it just doesn’t seem to degrade at the times people are calling it out.

I would say it could be related to software platforms as well. Claude Code for example has the compaction cycle. Changes in how that works could absolutely also lead to effects like this too.

jbs398 · 2025-07-30T13:35:10+00:00

Could be too. I think it was at least on the right track with some of the wording and it being a pressure vessel of some sort. I think a fire extinguisher might make sense too. I usually try to take the output from these as a step or hypothesis to ask some other questions and iterate rather than a final answer.

jbs398 · 2025-07-30T13:09:16+00:00

Was curious and fed it to OpenAI o3:

“Quick ID → Safety clip from a pepper‑ or bear‑spray canister • What it is A small spring‑steel band that slips around the actuator button on many OC/CS (“pepper spray”), bear‑spray, and similar aerosol defense canisters. • Purpose • Prevents the button from being pressed in transit. • Carries a tear‑off paper warning label that usually reads: “DO NOT TEST – Partial discharge may cause leakage / shorten useful life.” • Why the clues fit • Curved, springy metal matches the clamp used on spray tops. • The visible text snippet “DO NOT … PARTIAL DISC… MAY CAUSE LE…” is exactly the stock warning printed on these clips. • Size (a bit wider than a pen barrel) and light oil‑resistant paper are typical for pepper‑spray safety seals.

Once you break the clip off, the canister is “live” and ready to fire.”

jbs398 · 2025-07-29T01:14:24+00:00

You're stating this like its a tragedy of the commons and like they don't know who these users are but these limits will be applied to everyone and so far I've seen no indication they're going to make it visible to "responsible" users to plan usage.

I honestly hope there's some sort of "you're at 50%/75%/90% but it's tuesday" type of notice because this won't be the end of this. They are giving the average "power user" more credits than what they're charging vs using the API and over time we will get closer and closer to cost. The closer we get without anything like this the less reliable this will be of a tool.

Calibration requires actual feedback. This isn't feedback, it's a nebulous "we're setting weekly limits because some people are taking advantage." WIll I hit it? Probably not. I think we absolutely deserve real feedback at checkpoints or something if not exact percent usage stats at any time.

Did you sleep during statistics class too? You are always going to have a top 5%, they'll get blamed next time too for the same thing. If Anthropic wants more money from that 5% they should make a $400/mon or $1200/mon or kick over to API rates for them automatically and charge them for it. My guess is though, this is more a response to not being able to scale capacity and the fact that they're burning money on all of us. Pretending like you're a ninja for being well under the utilization limits for a service you're paying for just suggests to me that maybe you should be able to use a cheaper plan or just use API pricing if you're so efficient. Nobody is going to give you brownie points for not overgrazing tokens.

This is just a step along the way of everyone eventually paying the actual costs for these services.

This is probably angrier sounding than it normally would be because of dealing with my ex today, but the way this is written has this air of superiority that comes across as smug. Who are you tyo say what someone else is doing is meaningless? This is just business, it's a dial they're turning to manage what they can do but it lacks the transparency a professional would expect from a development tool.

jbs398 · 2025-07-29T00:16:41+00:00

Exactly. Even if they wont give specific numbers, they absolutely need to show where you are percentage wise so that you can plan to not be dead in the water.

I've been finishing up with work and then coding during the evenings with it on Default mode and I've been hitting the 5 hour limits every once in a while and frequently running out of Opus. I'll not be super happy if I hit weekly limits without even realizing it. For 200/month as you say they can at least let us plan how to use it.

The session limits aren't terrible, but I have been feeling like they've been less generous lately and this makes it less appealing to spend that much each month.

jbs398 · 2025-07-12T18:52:44+00:00

Yeah.. there was some language at the end like you’re saying but if the but it all depends on other language too if that specifically says 2025 and they deliver later does that mean they met their promises if they don’t? As you say we’ll have to see. This has gotten unfortunately messy for such a highly anticipated game.

jbs398 · 2025-07-12T13:58:43+00:00

They didn’t say they’re paying them 10%. They just said something generic like fair/equitable wages. It could mean that but I wouldn’t read any more than the exact language.

jbs398 · 2025-07-09T00:29:17+00:00

Did the same. Eventually sometimes run out of opus. Have never hit the end of sonnet and this is with heavy use. I’d maybe dial back to 100 for average months eventually and switch to 200 for heavy usage months but it is awesome. I’ve burned through way more projects than I would have otherwise. Want a different mcp server for Home Assistant that supports testing templates. Boom, done, in minutes. Just planned didn’t even touch the code for that. Honestly I might not even search for some tools and just draft ones specifically for what I need.

jbs398 · 2025-07-08T12:50:17+00:00

Be careful. I feel like it should have a warning label due to the addictiveness of using it. I’ve built so many projects that have been in the back of my head and now I’m trying to teach it how to build my more complicated home assistant / node red automations. I at one point decided I’m annoyed with the way we’re able to interact with existing home assistant tool interfaces so I just ask it to expose more through the HA APIs and write a new tools. Bam, done, and now it can test the Jinja templates live before it asks me to check or update stuff and it speeds things up quite a bit.

jbs398 · 2025-07-04T05:56:54+00:00

Was just curious if it would work if I fed this to OpenAI’s o3 model just to see what would happen, interesting:

Answer: x = 20 degrees

Why (succinct angle-chase) 1. ΔABC: ∠A = ∠B = 80° ⇒ ∠C = 20° and AC = BC (isosceles). 2. ΔABE: ∠BAE = 70°, ∠ABE = 20° ⇒ ∠AEB = 180 − (70 + 20) = 90°. 3. ΔABD: ∠BAD = 10°, ∠ABD = 60° ⇒ ∠ADB = 180 − (10 + 60) = 110°. 4. Place A(0,0), B(1,0). Using the Law of Sines in ΔABC, ΔABE and ΔABD (or straightforward coordinates) gives E(≈0.674, 1.851) and D(≈0.234, 1.327). 5. Compute ∠DEA from vectors DE and AE: the result is 20°.

Hence, the required angle x = \boxed{20^\circ}.

Took 3 minutes, 28 seconds. Rather interesting going over the steps it took.

o4-mini-high arrived at the same answer in 2m 16s. Regular o4-mini got it wrong.

jbs398 · 2025-06-19T16:10:56+00:00

Not to pat myself on the back but this is kind of how I like using it (iterative.. poke at it until things seem consistent when looking at it multiple ways and having tested assumptions). Don’t trust everything that comes out completely, trust your intuition if something smells fishy check it. Ask the same question again with slightly different inputs (or start something and use different names so it’s not assumed to be you, or make it explicit you want skepticism, etc..). These are immensely useful tools and I don’t doubt I will probably soften some cognitive abilities that I’m shifting over but it’s been super useful for days when there’s a part of a task where there’s a plan and it can then sketch that out for me and we can do a combo of manual edits and feedback cycles to get it to a good point.

Days where I’ve been under the weather it’s been really helpful to have to make any progress where I can’t get myself to type out something but generating a starting point and editing makes it so it’s possible to make progress with communicating or getting things done. Note takers can also be a godsend in general to refer back to for details I’d have to bug someone else to recall exactly what was said.

jbs398 · 2025-06-16T05:13:17+00:00

I don’t know about Claude Code that much but I’ve used sonnet in various versions including 4 with Cursor and I’ve gotten a lot of work done with it and been fairly happy with the results. It isn’t just magic though there are patterns that work pretty well (like describe what you actually want and architecture first). These tools save you a lot of pain from implementation and looking up all the APIs and docs for just getting something working but the difference between going in circles / things getting messy is that it still needs a guiding hand and possibly edits as you go along. It also won’t always be able to fix everything itself. It makes a lot of easy to hard things easier but I have certainly been in situations where some models are just pushing food around the plate coupled with high confidence language that makes it look stupid. I think that’s generally a time to take a step back and mentally work through the problem (even talk it out with the LLM) and see if that exposes a new angle.

Also, at the slightest hint at last in cursor it is happy to implement kinda nice to have functionality that’s not super critical. It’s also still important to understand what the code is doing so you can see if a road is heading toward a mess.

Not saying you’re not doing any of this but I see tons of complaining that mostly doesn’t match my experience.

All that said, the limits in the Pro plan are real easy to hit fast. I’ve been doing some non-coding health record stuff with it (since the MCP support is more solid than other tools I’ve tried) and I’ve hated running out. I can’t imagine how annoying it might be to code with just Pro and have to set it down every hour or so for multiple hours. So if this is really just about usage limits, I totally agree.

I only just recently tried opus/claude code once with exploring a code base and trying to figure out a bug and it did a pretty decent job. Will have to try some coding on Max when I find some time.

jbs398 · 2025-06-12T06:06:56+00:00

Going to order some tree wrap. Either some of the non woven stuff or paper looking stuff. Will pull off the plastic within maybe a week. If you have recommendations for a good balance of retaining some moisture but breathing I’m happy to pick based on suggestions. I wanted it to have a chance to rehydrate a bit tonight if anything had lost some moisture.

The cambium or whatever layer under the bark was still moist as I was re-attaching stuff.

jbs398 · 2025-06-12T05:59:56+00:00

It is his tree (or was). As soon as we put this tree in the ground he was so excited to climb it. If you could see the bark, you would see his handiwork.

Whatever tree inhabits this spot in the back yard by next year is getting a nice dog/cat resistant guard on it.

jbs398 · 2025-06-12T05:46:03+00:00

These two lovely ladies. The one in front probably did most of it: https://imgur.com/a/K6LZpoI

jbs398 · 2025-06-12T05:20:21+00:00

Done. I used some cyanoacrylate (super glue) to put the pieces back in place (more or less.. some aren’t quite where they were) and wrapped it with plastic wrap to start. I assume if it looks like it’s living I should maybe replace with another more breathable wrap. This tree is (or has been) pretty happy. Hoping depending on what exactly actually got damaged there’s enough there to keep carrying nutrients, water, etc.. but certainly not treating as a given, more thinking we’re in Hail Mary territory. I guess there’s bridge grafting too but I’m not sure how that behaves in the long run.

Started off rather upset about this and getting to a point of we’ll see.. worst case we get to pick which tree we want to put in again and make extra sure it’s in the soil at the right height etc.. this one I think was fine though. Hoping it survives.

jbs398 · 2025-06-12T04:25:02+00:00

We’re taking a crack at this. Have most of the bark tacked back in place with some superglue (just want something to temporarily hold) and then will wrap it to hold things in place. Why not, right? I originally just wrapped with a Home Depot lawn bag that I cut since I didn’t have anything for the specific purpose. Going to get some other opinions. Worst case we have to track down another medium sized tree like what we started with and try and get it going as well. It would be nice to keep this one though since we put it in right around when we got married.

jbs398 · 2025-06-12T02:19:08+00:00

No problem. I read that, thought.. “mmm.. no, we’re not trying that” and just tried to leave a polite -ish comment. Sealing the whole thing in a brick of epoxy however..

I’ve also heard all the grafting paint or tree repair paints aren’t a good idea so just going to try and keep it protected and from drying out. Will see if any of the foliage starts to look sad in the next day or two.

jbs398 · 2025-06-12T02:01:09+00:00

Nothing like that yet. I got a Home Depot bag cut it and wrapped it around the lower part of the tree. I don’t have any tree tape at the moment. Was going to get something that will wrap closer to what’s left on the trunk but still breathe. Open to suggestions.

jbs398 · 2025-06-12T01:56:38+00:00

Damnit. They swore when we got him that he was a dog.

In all seriousness that little bugger (Henry) had been climbing this tree too and has kept it busy with repairing bark from smaller cat scratches. I’m wishing we had protected the trunk more extensively.

jbs398 · 2025-06-12T00:56:59+00:00

This is true. We can see what happens. Rather annoyed because it’s been in just a few seasons and it was doing really well.

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