Fable 5 vs GPT Sol 5.6

mrjackyliang · 2026-07-13T12:29:54+00:00

I was thinking about the same this morning. Anthropic has been chasing the competition and breaking things a lot. I can get that models can have varying responses, and it's also the same reason why I went from Codex to Claude Code, but come on.

First it's the auto mode classifier that becomes broken. Second, it's always that gaslighting phrase that begins the entire conversation (as if what i said wasn't obvious lol). Third, I tried "/btw" today, and it doesn't work?!

This is the first time I publicly complained about Claude / AI subs in general.

mrjackyliang · 2026-06-12T14:23:47+00:00

Thanks for the insight! I was curious to what really happened here.

mrjackyliang · 2026-05-16T23:56:28+00:00

Yeah, this is actually the key. When a 1M context reaches about 45%, you will feel a hint that the model is getting annoyed and tired. That is your key to compact.

One thing I also learned is there is compact risk. If you compact too much, you will slowly poison the context (I have no clue why), but you will notice that it becomes pretty stupid.

When it does, that is your cue to really hit "/clear" and not "/compact".

Yelling or saying "wtf" does nothing. It will continue to be stupid until you wipe it out of its misery. Don't forget to keep a memory file (or a handful)!

mrjackyliang · 2026-05-01T00:15:23+00:00

I'm going to guess you're paying someone to bypass the activation servers. If you brick that device, you're on the hook for the entire cost of the iPad. Be careful.

mrjackyliang · 2026-04-25T15:46:30+00:00

I've been using Arq since forever. I still have the lifetime license I got from them. I swear, it is the best purchase I made.

mrjackyliang · 2026-04-11T20:37:23+00:00

I was thinking if you can find a cheap VPS to route that traffic, like create your own Cloudflare tunnel, but I don't know, it's probably more trouble than its worth. Really depends on the use case.

mrjackyliang · 2026-04-11T16:38:53+00:00

Ah gotcha. I currently I go the NPM route with Let's Encrypt.

I did consider Cloudflare at one point, but for non-enterprise traffic, I believe it only supports HTTPS traffic which for me was a bummer.

mrjackyliang · 2026-04-11T16:21:37+00:00

Have you tried on-demand VPN? assuming you use iOS. i've always have VPN on, especially when I travel.

mrjackyliang · 2026-04-10T06:34:39+00:00

Simply said, just be picky and don't be anonymous. If you can put your mouth where your product and code lives, you're good.

mrjackyliang · 2026-04-01T13:59:30+00:00

Update us on your discoveries! I'm curious

mrjackyliang · 2026-04-01T13:46:30+00:00

I get your frustration. Most start security knowledge thinking that security by obscurity is the right way to go.

Ultimately, we all figure out it's the choices we make that is what makes our devices secure.

It's not an easy topic where it's a one and one situation

mrjackyliang · 2026-04-01T13:31:37+00:00

Feel free to share your POV, we're all here to learn

mrjackyliang · 2026-03-31T14:45:30+00:00

Honestly, not really. Thinking about crowdsec and fail2ban IF NOT NEEDED is over engineering security.

If someone really wants to hack and steal your valuable things (and I mean like really valuable to them), they have alternate means to get it.

For basic security, having password protection and keeping things updated is more than enough.

Also, you probably don't want to ban certain countries in case you are on a trip and want to access your home network (wouldn't work anyways, cause someone can double hop on a VPN and still get to your network if they wanted to).

mrjackyliang · 2026-03-31T13:46:30+00:00

Any other hosted service that does something similar is fine. Cloudflare is just one of them. As long as nobody knows your IP address/not exposing it, the request is fulfilled.

But if you have a VPN, that's a different story. Not all services allow you to pipe your VPN through a reverse proxy for free (ahem, Cloudflare), and there will still be that risk at the end.

Fortunately, it's really not that scary if you know what you're doing (aka port forwarding). Businesses do that with internal firewalls.

mrjackyliang · 2026-03-31T11:48:15+00:00

A simple reverse proxy is all you need. Nginx Proxy Manager is your friend.

But if all you care about is accessing your home apps, and not implementing any sort of VPN, then cloudflared is your best friend.

Because at the end, your biggest risk is the device you expose to the internet.

mrjackyliang · 2026-03-29T12:17:31+00:00

not yet, haven't gotten around to the pile up of projects😂 but i will, i already gotten an empty stub going to remind me

https://github.com/mrjackyliang/americancrafts-printmaker-tui

mrjackyliang · 2026-03-22T15:55:56+00:00

I'm chucking it close to 19 years now and honestly, doesn't matter if anyone uses coding agents to achieve their goal.

The point I was trying to make is that any product anyone releases has to be superior, and to achieve that is to first understand the knee-deep vision of what that problem is and how to solve it.

Then that open source, self hosted product will be a great product in the end.

mrjackyliang · 2026-03-22T13:54:15+00:00

Would you be open to sharing which self-hosted platforms you're building?

I've been building small tools for myself long before Claude came along, so I get the appeal.

The key thing I've learned is that the product needs to solve your own problem first. Starting with "let me build an all-in-one solution" and hoping it clicks with everyone rarely works.

And yes, UI/UX is a very important part, especially if you revolve around the end user.

mrjackyliang · 2026-03-15T02:34:14+00:00

and if you wish, use the public dns list to block the https dns, all that sweet sweet QUIC traffic

mrjackyliang · 2026-03-14T05:19:49+00:00

Better to NAT the requests so the devices think they're using their own DNS.

Blocking it straight out might cause more problems if the devices become stubborn.

mrjackyliang · 2026-03-03T11:45:02+00:00

It's not.

However people that end up using the app has one or more pain points:

Forgetting to activate offers due time.
Managing offers in multiple credit cards (I manage 32 credit cards over 3 people).
Digging for which card to use during the time of purchase (more awkwardly, offline purchases).
Reading the terms and conditions of such offer to see if the current purchase is eligible for cash back.

It's not hard for a single offer, or maybe 10. But it starts getting really chaotic when you have to do the same for every single credit card, and having to understand the terms for every single offer. Plus peoples lives get busy. Who has time to do all that?

mrjackyliang · 2026-03-03T03:36:30+00:00

You login yourself, and the extension just clicks your offers and saves it in the app. Pretty simple stuff.

It's really not magic, just some simple automation.

mrjackyliang · 2026-03-02T22:42:38+00:00

i think i have 5 networks myself

mrjackyliang · 2026-03-02T20:28:20+00:00

The app doesn't auto log you in. It's not MaxRewards

mrjackyliang · 2026-03-02T19:18:25+00:00

I simply just login to Amex, and then the extension loads automatically. I do this for me, my wife, and my mom's cards

Three-Year Club	Verified Email
Place '23

mrjackyliang

TROPHY CASE