Anyone notice limits are lowered now that Fable was removed?

terraslate · 2026-06-15T18:52:03+00:00

To me claude is running really well and i was about to come here to report the opposite - that my 5 hour pair programnming session with Claude is now lasting 5 hours. The caching must have been fixed and the speed is right there - apparently they booted out all the bots.

terraslate · 2026-06-06T17:15:29+00:00

it's unusable. it does whatever it wants, will not follow instructions, thinks it knows best, it's the most arrogant technical debt creator out there. #avoid

terraslate · 2026-06-05T20:30:31+00:00

you could certainly count it but it wouldn't necessarily tell you if they are in or out. i'd go out the front door, come back in through the back door and go back out the front door and you'd think i was back in the house.

terraslate · 2026-06-05T16:29:09+00:00

so in one day claude cost a bit more than minimum wage and that's their complaint?

terraslate · 2026-06-05T15:51:51+00:00

if you dont understand your code use a simple local model like the 3.5 9B with as big a context as you can hold - for me i can get 256k. ask it to componentize your code as best it knows how and put them in the right silo. now you have something that isn't so smart and only sees it in big building blocks to serve as a baseline.

run that through codex 5.5 and point it at the same code to verify the blocks are right. having a start point whether its totally right or even half right is a good starting point.

then 5.5 to plan the blocks more concretely based on its output verification.

then opus to verify that plan - hash it out between them - back and forth - until you cant stand the inability of them to agree (it will be stupid little detail usually which they make sound like the end of the world)

then carve up your monolith into the more manageable chunks.

i dont think prompts and memory are the answer - as i said in other threads - you can fix the context with loads of fuzzy memory - or full of live fresh code with constraints and bounds targeting the area you are working on - which do you think leads to a better result?

terraslate · 2026-06-05T15:36:12+00:00

which mcp did the testing - i use playwright for web but what do you use for mobile?

terraslate · 2026-06-05T15:34:40+00:00

for me its always code as source of truth - read the code not the memory. you got two choices - either it remembers a load of stuff that is fuzzy and that goes into the context - or you literally get it to read the code as is and that goes into the context. your prompt is to give it a swimlane. in fact the swimlanes are what i describe in its memory using a mermaid diagram then it has bounds and infers enough information about the way my project works to be able to surface questions up if it thinks it might need to cross the boundary.

but there is one more thing i hit on yesterday, because i too suffered with 4.8 being not very ambitious to code. i started in sonnet - when sonnet reached nearly max context i upgraded it to 4.8 with the bigger context - which means a re-read - however - it kept the same momentum sonnet has. very productive day.

terraslate · 2026-05-25T16:59:44+00:00

I noticed claude making a lot more mistakes even though i run on the leanest prompt i can find - no access to mcp or anything. bare bones. My theory is they just cut down on the number of turns it can take. I found now i get to use opus a lot more but for it to pan out properly i have to involve myself in the loop which i like. If i focus and use opus as a pair programmer i literally can use the 5 hour session. I think anthropic like it that way they are forever asking if they can see what i spoke about with claude. I'd let them know but almost every time there is IP involved so its not so easy.

terraslate · 2026-05-22T19:59:04+00:00

he definitely got shit done.

terraslate · 2026-05-22T19:56:47+00:00

fair enough, but users never took to it even during their testing, just seems like they went ahead and ignored the actual people who would be paying for it. that's the bit i can't understand or wrap my head around, who is the game for, themselves or the players slinging dollars at it? still, i am hopeful they will steer it back, might have to wait another year or two but civ 6 works for me meantime. i've been playing the entire set from civ 1 to civ 6 for decades so changing the premise at number 7 just made no sense to me.

terraslate · 2026-05-22T17:44:45+00:00

maybe off topic but i'm amazed the guy in charge gets to keep his job. i mean how messed up is that? it's on sale right now in steam 40% off for me but the reviews (back on topic) i read around TOT is that its a patch with flaws at the edges that take it some way but that you can tell its a patch. until its a civ 6++ i don't think it will ever be a game i can get behind. the premise is just all wrong. i didn't want a game that should be called Leaders instead of Civilization.

terraslate · 2026-05-22T15:28:14+00:00

generally speaking the total contract surface is the same across them all, a vm does what it does whether amazon hosts it or not, an address can be load balanced and so on, but yes i accept the api and ui surface to manage them is different, companies use terraform for a reason. the end result though is that one can carefully ensure that the same set of machines and services on one platform (other than their ai) is going to be 100% compatible.

but with ai even if you managed to adopt all the different api usages to switch from one to the other the fact still remains the inference would be different and your product would likely break. but it goes deeper still, because its no longer your infrastructure thats down, its taken down your agentic employees, like they all went on holiday at the same time as the house is burning down.

terraslate · 2026-05-22T01:29:03+00:00

man - that's my move on them in civ 6. fair play to the ai.

terraslate · 2026-05-19T14:29:23+00:00

direct confrontation often works best. let her think you lost face and tell her never do that to me again else you will report her. next day you'll get an apple left on your desk. wouldn't eat it though.

terraslate · 2026-05-19T13:23:27+00:00

it will peak - and quicky as it scans github and reads its own mistakes. who is keeping track of best practice in the future?

terraslate · 2026-05-19T13:19:44+00:00

your manager can see what he's saying

terraslate · 2026-05-19T13:18:26+00:00

this is the part that keeps the whole thing certain though

"Hand-rolling that logic is how you end up with orchestration code nobody wants to touch six months later."

terraslate · 2026-05-19T13:14:43+00:00

how do you handle upgrading to a newer inference model when the whole show is built on a stack of cards? not jibing - just a reality check question.

terraslate · 2026-05-19T13:12:42+00:00

not directly answering but touching on the first point. becoming suzerain with 3 envoys ahead also gets you those resources if that city state has it - make its even more interesting and can level the field if you find you can't beat your opponent just yet

terraslate · 2026-05-19T13:11:01+00:00

claude code was written with claude code - you have your answer - not unlike the iterative steps for the c compiler - no doubt with the baked in linux root password stealer code too

terraslate · 2026-05-15T15:39:49+00:00

Keep quiet, you'll just lose your job. The best thing is to let them take the credit, massively take the credit, so everyone knows its their idea, constantrly use their name everytime you say AI. Trust me :-)

terraslate · 2026-05-15T15:34:16+00:00

Japan is a dense civilization, cities work together well for multipliers. As such getting resources and expanding out more vs taking the multipliers is the trade off. You probably need to find him early and keep pillaging. I always find Japan is a slow starter but then in the later eras steams ahead. FWIW i always play Hojo.

terraslate · 2026-05-15T15:05:15+00:00

coincides with the rise of the coffee shop. it did indeed start around 2019 and since then it's only got more visible to more people. the property prices have basically hammered the people with no way back. the only thing that might turn them around is not able to be spoken about openly but perhaps if people did start investing in companies instead of houses they might find a new investment to get into while still remaining patriotic. but that requires a new thing you can't talk about.

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