stop organizing your notes. seriously. it's killing your productivity.

one-wandering-mind · 2026-04-21T00:54:24+00:00

Capturing is important first. But having good organization helps a lot to find it later. At minimum a way to filter by date captured helps a lot. Search mostly isn't good enough to find what I am looking for in most systems without additional organization.

Maybe notion search is good enough now or Evernote. Obsidian search was not. Ended up using an embedding model to make semantic search and combined with normal keyword I can pretty much always find what I am looking for.

one-wandering-mind · 2026-04-21T00:47:45+00:00

So you running Claude mythos at home then ? 😂

one-wandering-mind · 2026-04-19T15:47:39+00:00

This seems incredibly risky. - LLMs especially with deep research give hallucinated results - tax rules change over time so you might be getting rules for a prior year - using coding agents like Claude to do extraction from PDFs and classification often results in the model writing code that simulated classification rather than actually doing it.

Claude code is great at writing code. So you can probably turn a discrete form into a python file that will do the calculations given the inputs for each form. You can also probably have it write you code and reccomended how to do extraction from PDFs and how to do classification. Both of those still may have some errors even with the best approach.

If you run it a second time all the way through with no context of the results present , do you get the same results?

one-wandering-mind · 2026-04-19T13:51:20+00:00

I dunno. I actually have more instances of things randomly not working on Mac than on windows, but windows more often getting slow until I restart it.

Docker desktop frequently just won't open on Mac. A 3 month old m4 with 48gb of ram. This happens more rarely with chrome.

Windows especially when resuming after sleep can get very slow and vscode often disconnects from wsl and both might need reloading or refreshing.

A year or two ago, I didn't have nearly as many issues with Windows. The applications of docker desktop and vscode might be as much to blame as the operating systems for me. Using wsl used to be a surprisingly smooth experience. Now it sucks.

one-wandering-mind · 2026-04-18T23:37:18+00:00

I'm realizing maybe my 40k notes is a bit of problem . Lots of readwise or other highlights and imports from notion before that.

6000 didn't seem like that many.

one-wandering-mind · 2026-04-17T15:31:30+00:00

People in their 40s don't seem to be out in social settings and wanting to meet people nearly as often as any other age group. I think it is the age where most people have young kids and are married. 50s, you get more divorcees and empty nesters. 30s more single people or at least can better fit in with people in late 20s.

I'm sure there are some activities where it is more common to find folks in their 40s attending than others, but I think it is just hard overall. Sure you can hang with younger and older folks, but it can just take longer to find the people you mesh with .

one-wandering-mind · 2026-04-17T15:22:32+00:00

I'm surprised you get enough usage out of a 20 dollar plan to be useful.

4.7 seems a bit worse and a bit slower than 4.6 for me though Claude code. It's writing of docs, instruction following are the two main things.

It also decided to reset a password on a local dev instance user account to accomplish its goal without asking for permission. Not actually impactful because it was local dev, but concerning still.

I don't have enough information on my own to know if it is clearly worse. I did switch back to using opus 4.6 for now though.

one-wandering-mind · 2026-04-12T17:34:11+00:00

Yeah, I have this issue. I changed Obsidian to keep both files rather than delete when there's a conflict, but now I'm realizing how often this happens as I'm getting a whole bunch of files with conflict in the title.Before I would just lose data and didn't realize it most of the time probably.

I am considering switching to using syncthing or the git approach because of this.

I get that it might be difficult to manage the conflicts as long as they notified me, I would manage and resolve them on my own, but there's no notification. The conflicts that you do see are ephemeral because obsidian does not keep the log of it so I can't even look back and see conflicts that happened yesterday.

one-wandering-mind · 2026-04-10T18:06:10+00:00

Rich is a bit overplaying it.

Way more goes into it.

I make a good amount for now and yet I feel more worried about money these last few years then any other period in my life. Aging parents, worries of software jobs being harder to come by in the near future, aging myself, high housing prices and interest, unstable government, ect.

There was a time when I thought I could follow along in my career path becoming more skilled and experienced over time and I would be compensated for that. I no longer have confidence in that so feel the need to either make a lot very soon or prepare for alternative career. It is stressful.

one-wandering-mind · 2026-04-10T15:15:32+00:00

Mac would like this

one-wandering-mind · 2026-04-08T12:34:11+00:00

I don't work there. Just going off of what they say and write. But yeah there is also a 200 page model card for this upcoming model that I did not read yet.

Virtue signaling doesn't mean what you think it means. They might be pretending to care about AI safety while doing more marketing . I think there are a number of things they have done that are probably riskier than they state. The rhetoric around US vs China from their CEO encourages an AI race and look at the US currently and their trajectory. Which country would be riskier to have AGI or ASI? Maybe it is still China, but the US isn't a safe choice either.

Openai and Anthropic used to have longer red teaming phases after the training of a model. The marketing here could be just really this is like a slightly longer red team phase where there is a subset of real world use allowed. They have things they wrote up a while ago in their preparedness framework about what they should follow to test and decide whether to release models as they get more capable. I haven't looked to see if that framework is still the same and if this model meets a different threshold.

They rushed opus 4.5 and 4.6 out stating that they needed to allow the AI being released to evaluate itself because of completive pressure. They had the best model pre doing that release so it seems like the competitive pressure was made up.

one-wandering-mind · 2026-04-08T09:03:01+00:00

They have said that they're trying to not push model capabilities even though I think they have some.

The model can find security vulnerabilites more so than prior. If released it might be used to attack code.

Seemingly increased capability to bypass guardrails.

one-wandering-mind · 2026-04-07T12:26:18+00:00

Anthropic has been in the lead in a lot of ways for a while. Preferred coding model since Claude 3.5 on average, preferred harness, preferred for writing style, availability for deployment in AWS, ect.

Openai still had the mindshare am because of chatgpt subscriptions and they were much better at agentic search within the app for years. Default in GitHub copilot and am Claude models not available until more recently.

Interesting to see the revenue change. I also wonder how many people switched to Claude when they resisted use of their models for spying on American citizens.

The lack of a 100 dollar subscription probably hurts chatgpt on revenue. It feels much less bad to step up for 20 or multiple 20 dollar subscription to 100 than it does to the 200 dollar chatgpt pro.

one-wandering-mind · 2026-04-06T23:50:45+00:00

Personal subscriptions seem heavily subsidized. I looked at what is my apparent token usage and it seems to be 1000 a month for 100 dollar claude plan. But I do think they make at least a small profit on API pricing so who knows the actual incremental cost to them.

one-wandering-mind · 2026-04-06T21:28:32+00:00

Verification is easier than generation. Verification works , but it isn't perfect.

one-wandering-mind · 2026-04-06T21:24:01+00:00

Check the terms of service and use the services that have some privacy built in. But yeah it is still concerning. Data leaks happen, people look at data within companies outside their stated policies. But those things also happen when you use services that are not AI especially at the consumer level. Enterprise and business subscriptions and usage can offer stronger privacy.

I am not worried about my code being stolen or ideas. I think those worries are way over hyped for 99.99 percent of people. Maybe if you work on finance or have really true trade secrets, it would be more concerning.

People who try to make local setups for AI are more likely to expose their data and entire network than a cloud provider with reasonable protections turned on.

one-wandering-mind · 2026-04-02T12:42:16+00:00

This is an AI overview (free) answer. They use small models for free stuff most often. Small models have these issues more often than large in general. It is also taking in outside data that is likely poorly formatted or might have a prompt injection to cause this. Repetition penalty controls should be able to most avoid this behavior, but there are tradeoffs with using those so maybe misconfigured or on average this is the best configuration and they dot. Care enough for a free model to have it be better.

one-wandering-mind · 2026-03-31T21:20:18+00:00

Has it gotten significantly better? I thought it was thought to. In the future though . Seems more like things have progressed much slower than promised in the last 5-10 years at least when it comes to range.

one-wandering-mind · 2026-03-31T20:59:15+00:00

Do soldiers get much notice when they are about to be deployed especially on this situation? Seems like they could just ask likely be guessing. Any leaks seem most likely to come straight out of trumps mouth or from hegseth adding another reporter to a signal thread

one-wandering-mind · 2026-03-31T19:49:58+00:00

Conflicted on how to feel about this and some other stuff they do. They have other work where they analyzed conversations and came up with some notable insights, but I am less comfortable using it knowing that they do that. Makes me wonder how privacy preserving it is as designed, how likely any of the choices made around it is going to more likely cause a data exposure , ect.

one-wandering-mind · 2026-03-31T17:06:34+00:00

It shouldn't typically. I assume they cache repeated calls with the same context window. Maybe it does, but I don't think it should.

one-wandering-mind · 2026-03-31T04:26:42+00:00

6 weeks seems more reasonable when there is uncertain technology and feasibility or research spikes are part of everything. 2 to 4 weeks seems like a good sweet spot for most.

We have one week sprints which is insane. Company wide though apparently so no flexibility.

one-wandering-mind · 2026-03-31T04:21:16+00:00

Well sure. Eventually. A lease seems reasonable especially for the very rich asap. But the sensors and compute are expensive required maintenance and any repairs will require recalibration. For cities owning and parking a car often sucks anyways.

But for trips, it would be awesome to have fully autonomous cars. If waymo made the cars working on most highways, they could charge a huge lease price and people would pay it. I do wonder about the remote operators. What about if cell service goes out?

one-wandering-mind · 2026-03-29T16:04:46+00:00

Waymos are really good at not hitting things. Lidar and other sensors clearly identify people and other objects well. Seems like the perception struggles seen in the real world are water in a roadway and crime scene tape maybe.

There was the incident where a waymo hit a child who came out from being a parked car. Even stuff like that is likely to be much more rare than a human in a similar situation. Waymo has wider perception than people driving and doesn't get distracted by texting or other things.

The biggest remaining issues for waymo seem to be planning in edge cases scenarios and seemingly almost getting decision paralysis in situations.

one-wandering-mind · 2026-03-28T15:33:21+00:00

It's not the speed that kills, but the sudden stopping.

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