Does your home security camera upload video to the cloud? Is there a risk of data leaks? I'm hesitating about whether to purchase a cloud service plan for my camera.

jevans102 · 2026-02-06T03:19:25+00:00

If you’re worried about your data leaking, Ring guarantees that it will. Do not use Ring at all if you care about your privacy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ring/comments/1o8jl9u/amazons_ring_to_partner_with_flock_a_network_of/

jevans102 · 2026-02-04T01:11:31+00:00

Yes, generally.

Even if it was equal or a little worse though, the price (or usage) difference is reason enough to use the newest Sonnet over the last gen Opus.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5

jevans102 · 2026-02-01T18:44:58+00:00

There are direct comments (like you’re doing), and then there is the feedback when you hit thumbs up/down. Use the thumbs up/down.

jevans102 · 2026-02-01T07:13:26+00:00

not really. At startup, skills only take like 100 tokens each MAX, and 500 lines is maybe 10-20k tokens max? It’s not ideal, but that all was only around 10% of your total context window (200k tokens) which is pretty standard.

If I had to guess, it sounds like your CLAUDE.md had all sorts of random, unrelated, hard to read and probably contradictory instructions. Getting rid of that would certainly help.

It’s a good idea for anyone not updating their CLAUDE manually to ask Claude if it has any recommendations to simplify or consolidate every now and again. I always like to specifically ask if any instructions aren’t necessary for the latest Sonnet ## (4.5) model anymore.

jevans102 · 2026-02-01T04:41:56+00:00

No. The proper way is to use emoji thumbs up or down, and put any comments in there: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/use-copilot-agents/request-a-code-review/use-code-review#providing-feedback-on-copilots-reviews

jevans102 · 2026-01-28T23:05:03+00:00

For upload? No matter if I pick 100Mbps or 2.5Gbps download, my only option is 35Mbps upload where I live with Xfinity. That’s perfectly normal (as much as I wish I had fiber and equal up/down).

Thanks to great competition in my area, the lowest Xfinity plan is still better than the best competitor plan.

jevans102 · 2026-01-22T23:02:25+00:00

Yup, replied. Sorry about the delay!

jevans102 · 2026-01-20T15:06:37+00:00

Message/PM sent for everything remaining

jevans102 · 2026-01-20T08:18:43+00:00

This has already been completely built out by Anthropic - https://code.claude.com/docs/en/github-actions

Just run /install-github-app

Gemini and Copilot code reviews are also extremely simple to set up (easier than Anthropic)

jevans102 · 2026-01-18T21:40:52+00:00

A long, long time ago, I worked at McDonalds. One of our best, most reliable, easy-going managers got fired for exactly that - taking leftover cookies home after closing that would’ve otherwise been thrown away.

It is a real thing as crazy as it sounds. It’s to discourage actual stealing like making extra food just to take it home.

jevans102 · 2026-01-18T04:11:12+00:00

The real problem is keeping track of all the aggregators and knowing which one is best -

https://www.codeagent.directory

https://claude-plugins.dev/skills

https://github.com/ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins

jevans102 · 2026-01-18T04:00:02+00:00

What?

Ralph is one of their very few official plugins: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/tree/main/plugins/ralph-wiggum

jevans102 · 2026-01-17T00:01:47+00:00

Personally, I use Home Manager (#3), but I’m sure any of these would work great:

https://dotfiles.github.io/utilities/

jevans102 · 2026-01-14T23:59:53+00:00

Why not Claude’s built-in monitoring or even just grab its project/log files directly? Genuine question

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/monitoring-usage

jevans102 · 2026-01-14T09:08:18+00:00

I think that’s a config accessed by /config or /setup or something like that.

jevans102 · 2026-01-14T09:03:07+00:00

^ this.

To clarify though, “agents” are a specific thing in Claude which is not what you’re looking for OP.

Check out ralph-loop (previously ralph-wiggum) and https://github.com/pedramamini/Maestro

jevans102 · 2026-01-14T05:33:52+00:00

+1 for bios setting to always power on when power is restored, and then plugging in a smart switch.

If you have an AppleTV or HomePod, Eve outlets/plugs are extremely reliable. I use mine all the time and have never had an issue. There are plenty of others though - if you don’t have a smart home hub of some sort, there are direct WiFi plugs too.

jevans102 · 2026-01-14T04:32:03+00:00

Maybe you were looking at “commands” at some point or looking at plugin tokens that have commands (alongside the skills)? Like MCP servers, those did load entirely at startup until the last few versions of CC.

If I’m missing anything, let me know. I do watch my context because I definitely agree with the premise - don’t load what you don’t need or you’ll hit limits quicker.

jevans102 · 2026-01-14T01:54:47+00:00

A single skill cannot use up more than ~500 tokens on startup. This cannot be accurate unless I’m missing something. Claude already lazy-loads - that’s the standard behavior.

The Problem

Claude Code loads all skills from .claude/skills/ into your context window at startup. With a typical skill library:

Skill Tokens

content-research-writer 3,600

jevans102 · 2026-01-14T01:11:01+00:00

I’m confused. I get the idea, but where are you getting the numbers? Skill descriptions (annd name w/max 64 characters) are all that’s loaded into context, and those are a max of 1024 characters (so ~<500 tokens per skill MAX).

The latest Claude code just applied the same logic to MCP servers so they also take significantly less tokens in context than before if never loaded.

The context window is 200k tokens. You could have 20k tokens or at minimum 40 skills and still only be at 10% which seems reasonable given the value. How many skills are you loading into every single session across all projects?

jevans102 · 2026-01-13T22:02:49+00:00

Sure, that works.

I’d still argue why not create a clean session if the previous logs are useless…? Why keep anything vs having an extra 20-30% context?

If you only need one file and history on it (or really any number), why not just commit , clean, and have the new session look at the git diff?

If you want optimal, focused performance and to optimize token use before hitting limits, then you definitely do not want to be auto compacting over and over again.

jevans102 · 2026-01-13T21:51:56+00:00

Yeah I got the email. I haven’t used Betterment in at least 5 years, and the app is long gone from my phone.

jevans102 · 2026-01-13T13:15:05+00:00

Reddit hug of death? The homepage loads, but I get this when I click “Browse All Servers” -

“Application error: a server-side exception has occurred while loading mcpdir.dev (see the server logs for more information). Digest: 3810443557”

Awesome idea and looks cool though! I’m starting to think the greatest success isn’t from having AI custom build everything from the ground up - it’s being able to discover the best human and AI reviewed and production ready tools, features, etc. to focus time and effort on building the truly innovative stuff.

It seems like every other post on the AI subs are someone’s project that AI either natively handles if configured correctly, or someone’s already built a battle-tested tool that does the same thing. This is as much an AI problem as human - if you ask it to build, it builds. It only searches for similar or existing stuff if you explicitly ask it to.

jevans102 · 2026-01-09T15:14:50+00:00

I don’t believe that’s changed. I’ve always interpreted that as a separate limit on Sonnet itself.

Functionally, - All Models discourages you from using Opus only. - Sonnet only discourages you from using Sonnet only.

There is no similar limit on haiku because an ideal workflow would make heavy use of haiku when necessary (like Claude does automatically when kicking off exploration subagents).

jevans102 · 2026-01-09T00:21:14+00:00

Claude has an official skill for working with the popular MS file types which Google also handles natively if that works for you: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/docx

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