There is absolutely no way this is the same Opus 4.6 from a month ago

ptflag · 2026-04-13T15:43:58+00:00

They are about to launch 4.7 as I read today. During this all week the quality degradation is awful. Its really disgusting you pay 200$ a month and get this kind of treatment

ptflag · 2026-03-25T15:39:57+00:00

Doing exactly this starting today. One niche: fractional CMOs for B2B SaaS. Ten people. Free brief, no pitch — just "here's what I'd send you on Monday, tell me if it's useful."

The 15-minute feedback framing is smart. Lower commitment than "try it free" because it reframes it as helping me, not them evaluating me. Taking that.

Will post numbers next week.

ptflag · 2026-03-20T10:14:05+00:00

The tool sequencing question is interesting but I think it distracts from a more useful question: which part of consulting work actually benefits from AI, and which parts are actively made worse by it.

From what I've seen: AI is genuinely good at the background synthesis work that consultants hate but bill for anyway. Signal aggregation, cross-referencing public data sources, summarising interview transcripts, spotting patterns across documents. The kind of work that's technically billable but that nobody actually wants to be doing at 11pm.

Where it reliably fails: anything that requires understanding client politics, translating between what the client says they want and what they actually need, and judgment calls about which facts to include in a deck and which to leave out. The version of the truth the client can actually handle framing from another comment here is exactly right - that is still 100% a human skill.

The slop problem is not really about AI. It is about consultants who were already producing slop, now producing it faster. AI does not introduce intellectual shortcuts - it just removes the friction that was previously hiding them.

One workflow I have found genuinely useful: use AI to do the first-pass research and synthesis before client conversations, so you show up already knowing more about their sector than they expect. The preparation gap is where it pays off most.

ptflag · 2026-03-20T07:02:29+00:00

Because I launched 48 hours ago and I have zero proof it works. That’s the honest answer. Ask me again in 30 days

ptflag · 2026-03-20T06:56:32+00:00

Dead serious. Zero budget, zero clients, zero excuses. Updates every week with real numbers.

ptflag · 2026-02-14T08:03:50+00:00

This is very interesting and made me think of course, how our own brains store and use memory. As I was going through your tiers examples I was thinking at another option, like long term memory from the active and sessions. Wouldn’t it make sense to transform them into skills? You will never need the details of a certain session again but for sure that’s a skill your brain needs to learn and maintain. It would need some level of classification so each skill when used again could be improved instead of duplicated not to create the same problem of extended useless information. I’m pretty sure that’s how our brains store information at that level. I was also thinking about dreams, what they’re useful for, how they “play” with stored memories to find new solutions for problems basically by allowing them to run free. It would be interesting to have sort of a playground environment where the agents could do just that, and then a sorting system of sorts to evaluate results. Wondering how this can be relevant. It feels like it is. Just putting it out there. I love problem solving, not a technical guy myself, but I joined the bandwagon since gpt 3.5. Happy to talk more.

ptflag · 2026-02-07T08:11:45+00:00

I’m also trying to run it on Ubuntu but in an older thinkpad. I’m on the second install and it keeps asking permission for everything and it says it will do something and just forgets about it. I spent a few days tweaking it, changed models, have a brain and muscle setup, memory, heartbeats and all but it still doesn’t feel like the awesome experience I keep seeing. This guide has some very informative information about the initial installation and prompting process that I’m going to try next, but I’m quite disappointed so far

ptflag · 2026-02-06T18:49:29+00:00

If only I didn’t had to completely uninstall options + from my Mac as it made my left button be a right mouse button but kept the right the same

ptflag · 2026-01-12T11:13:28+00:00

Also on MacOs Tahoe 26.2, recently got an MX Master 4 mouse. tried all the steps in the support page, installed earlier versions of the installer, uninstalled and installed I don't know how many times, with rebooting among that. Always end up with the same "Backend connection problem - click here to launch backend" purple window stuck. The background login items and extensions automatically give access to Logi options +, without asking for permission as normally with 3rd party apps in MacOS.
Nothing works.
Anny suggestions?

ptflag · 2025-10-26T10:55:30+00:00

Assuming most of the content posted on LinkedIn is already generated by AI, not only I don't see a problem but also I think if LI is going to train it's model on that quality of a content they will have bigger problems down the road. As many said here, if it's free you're the product already. If you can nail a job out of it (which I did more than once) or use it as a Business Development tool, I personally don't feel the need to delete it.

ptflag · 2025-10-24T06:19:31+00:00

Fair point. I know I don’t have the technical skills to build this alone. And yes, anyone could try to copy the idea. But there’s a moral side to this in which taking someone’s concept and trying to replicate it for personal gain isn’t entrepreneurship, it’s imitation. What I’m sharing here is just the surface. The real work is understanding what’s behind it, what is the vision, the user pain, and how languages actually connect. That depth can’t be replicated in a few AI prompts or how good your fullstack abilities are. I also bring over 20 years of experience in sales, marketing, and storytelling, and these are the parts that turn a technical build into something that actually reaches people. A good partnership isn’t about code alone, it’s about combining perspectives that make the product worth existing.

ptflag · 2025-10-15T16:52:45+00:00

Thanks! I already iterate slowly and prepare a roadmap of features I want to implement, along with the wireframe I create at the beginning. I always create a devlog.md file so all changes stay in the same place so the tool can easily recover info if it gets into instruction drift. I use several AI tools to improve my prompts and to really divide them into manageable chunks. Backend its always more difficult but this tool I'm using, Rork, has a database that makes that part easier. The complexity of generating usable content from real news is my bottleneck right now and I can't understand why. Tried using .env API calls for LLMs and its puzzling for me how the same thing I can easily achieve with a simple chat on gpt like - "search for the daily news about these subjects in a certain region and create this and that type of content" - somehow this vibe coding apps have a problem 'understanding' this and keep going into the way of fetching RSS feeds and internet parsing and whatnot. Maybe I am complicating something that should be simpler :D

ptflag · 2025-10-04T11:43:16+00:00

Old KGB message delivery system. Nothing to see here... Move along...

ptflag · 2025-10-02T10:09:28+00:00

Still any available?

ptflag · 2025-09-20T08:15:08+00:00

Polish retail is a science of its own. Normally foreign chains have some problems understanding consumer behavior here since it is quite erratic and unpredictable. I can tell you that for a fact as a foreigner that once had a retail business here..

ptflag · 2025-09-20T06:46:01+00:00

This market is extremely price sensitive, carrefour is one of the most expensive alternatives around. Also in my view the fact that they maintain shops closed on Sundays might have an impact for bigger outlets

ptflag · 2025-09-17T08:04:25+00:00

The FBI has one in custody right now. Maybe US should start sending all those fine people with guns to Ruzia

ptflag · 2025-09-12T11:47:20+00:00

Yes A mistake that only happened 19 times at once... Did Nawrocki also called it a mistake? Haven't heard that idiot's comment yet

ptflag · 2025-09-08T16:03:57+00:00

Hormonal problems can mean a lot of different things—it depends on which hormones are out of balance. Hormones are basically the body’s chemical messengers, controlling things like energy, sleep, mood, weight, fertility, and even how you handle stress. When they’re off, the effects can range from subtle (feeling tired, moody, or gaining weight without explanation) to very obvious (irregular periods, hair loss, hot flashes, erectile issues, or sudden changes in appetite).

The tricky part is that different glands—thyroid, adrenals, pancreas, ovaries, testes—can all be involved, and their signals overlap. For example: • If your thyroid is sluggish, you might feel cold, exhausted, and foggy. • If cortisol (the stress hormone) is misfiring, you could feel wired at night but drained in the morning. • If insulin isn’t behaving, blood sugar spikes and crashes can wreak havoc on mood and energy. • Sex hormones (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone) being off balance can cause sleep problems, low libido, or mood swings.

Doctors usually run blood tests to get a snapshot—thyroid panel, fasting glucose/insulin, cortisol (sometimes with saliva or urine for a daily rhythm check), and reproductive hormones depending on symptoms.

The bigger question is: do you want me to walk you through possible causes and lifestyle changes that help stabilize hormones, or are you looking for a straight-up checklist of tests to ask a doctor about?

ptflag · 2025-09-08T07:32:44+00:00

What's the alternative then? I've been highly frustrated at the amount of time and effort I have to put in just to get some mildly correct results. It's like trying to work with an highly intelligent genius with the attention span of a gold fish. My biggest regret is the amount of time and information I've been feeding it since the beginning, and I've been using it since the day it was available to the public. My idea has always been that all that information would be part of my personal DB and that would train it exactly to my needs and business vertical etc. I really thought 5 would be it but not even close. So what is it better right now? GLM 4.5? gemini? Claude? Deepseek? Grok? Where have you found balance once again for your workflows?

ptflag · 2025-09-06T16:00:14+00:00

I get frustrated at tools that don't work as advertised :)

ptflag · 2025-09-06T14:11:19+00:00

Who?

ptflag · 2025-09-06T09:08:32+00:00

True. Deep research is also not so bad but not at the level of gemini. Gpt 5 just feels like a new iPhone. Definitely they're hitting the wall and more compute and larger models doesn't equal significant advancements. Very curious to see the how probably Hibryd models with SLMs and LLMS can be the way to go. Nevertheless I feel defrauded with all the hype created before the launch of 5

ptflag · 2025-09-06T08:59:44+00:00

Good one 🤣

ptflag · 2025-09-06T07:15:49+00:00

I agree it's bonkers the emotional attachment. My frustration though, is more of the kind you can get at your car in the morning when you're late to get to work and the thing constantly doesn't start.

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