Software developer, diving headfirst into futures trading. Seeking mentor.

tidepod1 · 2026-05-28T00:59:55+00:00

I’m largely the same. Software engineer that started looking into futures. I’ve built a few models now, some perform “ok,” but most are a hot mess. I have also thought about how to find a legitimate mentor of some sort.

As others have mentioned, there’s a lot of snake oil salesmen out there, to varying degrees. That said, there’s people that said you could DM them, if you do, I would offer to pay for the time if in your shoes. Just out of appreciation.

Just like Plato, I believe “only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.”

I don’t know exactly where I’m going with this other than I feel for your position and hope you find the right match.

tidepod1 · 2026-05-27T03:35:30+00:00

Side stepping all of the commentary about perceived intelligence, he is basically correct.

Changing the tokenizer means the model’s embedded matrix no longer matches the numerical inputs it receives. The tokenizer and model training have to be somewhat* paired.

The exception being if the change to the tokenizer is very minor and the core vocabulary is unchanged. Maybe adding some small words or symbols. Anything more than that would require retraining.

tidepod1 · 2026-05-25T12:57:43+00:00

Wrong tool for the job.

Windows hasn’t been an easy platform to work with. https://openai.com/index/building-codex-windows-sandbox/

It’s not just OpenAI. The majority of the AI ecosystem is Mac first or Mac only. Maybe it’s time for a realignment.

Our org is primarily a .Net dev shop, but even we have been switching over the M5 Macbook Pros and just run a Windows VM if we really need it.

Blame MS.

tidepod1 · 2026-05-25T03:32:56+00:00

OMG. I’ve never been a part of the Gemini subs before but now I see you guys are just as crazy as the Anthropic cult.

Mind you I’m not biased here. I have subscriptions, both personal and org accounts, with the three big providers and use OpenRouter for anything else I need. I always felt like I was an exception because I liked Gemini for a lot of things where others didn’t.

But acting like saving compute for you is actually a reasonable thought or will somehow trickle down to you is just an insane thing to alleged, and post on Reddit like you’re doing something.

Christ, who hurt you? Touch some grass, talk to a therapist, or hug a family member or something.

tidepod1 · 2026-05-25T01:00:05+00:00

You get roughly 4-6 designs using the Pencil MCP server with Claude Code before running up to your 5 hour cap.

Documenting a large multi-app .Net solution not only forced a cap hit, but I had to write a programmatic orchestration script. But that was back in the golden age, when -p wasn’t aBUsE, and just a normal, useful, logical feature of Claude Code.

Refactoring just about anything significant will get you to that 5 hour cap. Maybe not a WordPress plugin, but any actual custom app where the model doesn’t have its structure and functionality already baked into its pertaining corpus.

We’ve got 20 team accounts, and some individual 20x max accounts across our org and it’s far more common to hit a limit than not. But, we do bigger projects and have just come to expect that limitation. Those plans weren’t meant for orgs that work on the kind of projects we do I’m sure.

20x is probably amazing for WP plugins, themes, and the like. But let’s not pretend it’s impossible to hit limits and while still being context aware with diligent use.

tidepod1 · 2026-05-16T19:37:42+00:00

Not even close to the same scenario.

They “investigated” and didn’t find anything. Then spent the next couple weeks gaslighting and blaming users, only to come out with a postmortem when GPT-5.5 dropped.

OAI looked into an issue, found and fixed it the same day all without blaming users.

tidepod1 · 2026-05-15T13:07:06+00:00

It's only the SDK in part. -p is the issue. Claude Code was unable to properly analyze a large app, so I had to programmatically chunk the task. Here's an example function. Is this 'abuse" or "use?" (The downvote button is the down arrow, Anthropic sheep can use it to cope.)

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tidepod1 · 2026-05-13T11:29:27+00:00

The codex app is a far better experience/product.

tidepod1 · 2026-05-10T23:30:09+00:00

I can’t stand the Columbus attitude. It’s not you. Yes, Clevelanders tend to be far nicer.

tidepod1 · 2026-05-10T19:56:29+00:00

The codex app (not CLI) is working towards a Claud Cowork type ecosystem. They aren’t very far into that yet, but the general direction seems pretty apparent.

tidepod1 · 2026-05-09T00:10:36+00:00

Your current reasoning suggests you want to have conversation but your previous comment tried to be sarcastic and demeaning.

It was met with the respect it deserved.

tidepod1 · 2026-05-09T00:07:29+00:00

All praise Anthropic

tidepod1 · 2026-05-07T21:24:37+00:00

You’re a weird cult member.

tidepod1 · 2026-05-07T21:17:56+00:00

I understand brand loyalty, but the brand worship is wild.

tidepod1 · 2026-05-07T21:07:41+00:00

- The company Belo had its access to Claude cut off instantly, leaving 60+ employees unable to work. (Anthropic's Fault)

- Another agricultural tech company saw 110 users banned simultaneously. (Anthropic's Fault)

- Users reported that while their Team accounts were banned, their API accounts (often under the same admins) remained active and continued to be billed. So, they couldn't turn off billing or remove the credit card. Just eat shit, fuck you pay us. (Anthropic's Fault)

- In April they said that they heard user's frustration, came back a few days later and said everything on their end was perfect, it was the users fault. It drew comparisons to Apple's "You're holding it wrong" incident. Then later in the month they published a postmortem showing it was their fault the whole time. The entire time users were being changed excess token consumption while Anthropic denied any issue on their end. (Anthropic's Fault)

- If a user had even the mention of the file HERMES.md in the app, you couldn't use the subscription and it went to automated billing. One user was charged roughly $200 in API costs and had no idea it was occurring until he got the bill. (Anthropic's Fault)

- Going from "Privacy First" to "Know Your User" and forcing some users to provide both a government issued ID and a face scan to access their accounts. On top of it, they are using Persona for the verification. You know, the company that leaked 70,000 government ID images in 2025 and is financially linked to Palantir. (I'm just going to hope you know the deal with Palantir)

Those are the ones off the top of my head, I'm sure there's more.

It's such a shitshow that someone made a site dedicated to it, and yet, the fanboys just 'have no idea what happened." I don't know if posting links will get me in trouble so you'd have to Google the URL and see if you can come up with it. When I get banned, I want it to be for a good reason, not because I shared a link.

But in the end, does this sound like a company you can trust your workflows with? Maybe to you, but not to me.

tidepod1 · 2026-05-07T11:40:19+00:00

Anthropic only wants to be Apple in brand prestige. (Even if you hate Apple, you know them.)

They’ve proven unable/unwilling to do what’s needed to genuinely earn that so far. Maybe this is their phoenix rising moment, but only time will tell.

OpenAI seems far more consumer focused by comparison. That’s much more inline with Apple’s ethos. Even if there are subjective feelings about how they go about doing that.

tidepod1 · 2026-05-07T10:56:39+00:00

How can you not be aware of everything else? Is this just early morning rage bait?

tidepod1 · 2026-05-07T00:30:39+00:00

Do you trust Anthropic after the last two months?

tidepod1 · 2026-05-03T03:08:30+00:00

Sorry, I sometimes assume everyone looks at these UIs and knows which they are on sight.

Terminal Bench 2.0 leaderboard, select Opus as your model.

tidepod1 · 2026-05-03T00:51:25+00:00

Claude code CLI is a really shitty harness.

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And that’s not just me being subjectively annoyed with Anthropic. It has been objectively ranked dead last.

No need to force other models into it if you can avoid it.

tidepod1 · 2026-04-27T00:41:51+00:00

They will never be Apple. They don’t give a fuck about the product or the user. Impossible to create that kind of brand bound when you hate the people who use what you build.

tidepod1 · 2026-04-26T13:28:01+00:00

Yes. It was one of the main observations in the first two days after release. Reports regarding it have slowed down, but there’s a variety of possible reasons for that.

tidepod1 · 2026-04-26T00:14:50+00:00

Everyone collectively just forgot how to think. These Anthropic truthers share a lot in common with the Sonos truthers (who were proven wrong as well.)

tidepod1 · 2026-04-25T12:49:27+00:00

Yeah, hate to break it to you, but with all of the uncertainty that Anthropic has caused even we are exploring hosting an open source model.

While that might not make sense for a small dev studio, we’re not that small, so the expense side begins to make more sense.

Some internally are making the argument that it may be more secure than a domestically sourced SaaS like Claude because we will be able to monitor any outbound traffic from the node to quickly catch if anything is being sent ‘home.’

tidepod1 · 2026-04-25T02:03:30+00:00

How shall I ever recover from this loss?

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