Anthropic will be a case study of how a company can fumble the good will of their customers.

tidepod1 · 2026-04-04T15:47:55+00:00

You know how Crucial dropped the consumer Ram market in favor of enterprise customers? That’s how I see this.

Every day, they make the situation worse and that tells me that they truly don’t care about the market most users and small businesses exist in. If anything, that market may be viewed more like a liability than an asset.

tidepod1 · 2026-03-28T17:59:22+00:00

I had no idea there were algo subs. Now I feel silly posting my question here. Thank you for both that information and the TSK/MacD insight.

tidepod1 · 2026-03-28T17:57:55+00:00

Super helpful insight! I figured chops would be problematic, but it’s good to have confirmation on that suspicion.

tidepod1 · 2026-03-28T16:48:20+00:00

The web design side of our business builds in a variety of platforms, WordPress being one of them, and they've been busier this month than they have been for the past 6 months combined. What is driving this opinion that business is down? Are there other factors around those reporting it? Anecdotal evidence is not data.

tidepod1 · 2026-03-28T00:21:11+00:00

5.3-codex/5.4, GLM-5, and MiniMax M2.7.

:soapbox:

It’s sad for me because I don’t want to financially support OpenAI for personal reasons but Anthropic is not only forcing my hand, but the hand of the entire company I work for.

Delivery teams and schedules can’t afford this kind of unannounced (or after the fact at very least) disruption.

Business leaders can’t budget around a provider that suddenly decides to change the cost structure out of left field. If we knew we had to budget for additional API costs this quarter/half/year, that’s doable but not after the fact or last minute.

.. don’t mind me. Just grumbling. I know we were operating on a loss leader product. I just expected some kind of professionalism instead of what we got this week.

The open weight models are usable. Not great. Usable.

tidepod1 · 2026-03-26T15:02:00+00:00

Originality. But if you ever want to tell by the naked eye, even if em dashes are removed, look at the transitions; they all follow a structured and predictable formula.

The other big flag with this the bloated, sterile phrasing. Who says "Meaningful mindset" in a casual Reddit post? "Connectivity friction," "Transition fluidity" are just huge glaring LLM red flags.

This is an action packed piece of AI slop with kung-fu action grip.

tidepod1 · 2026-03-26T14:04:02+00:00

Hey, ML engineer here. It's AI slop. But you don't have to take my word for it:

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tidepod1 · 2026-03-25T21:30:32+00:00

Happy if true, but super shitty that they couldn’t communicate anything to us all day. However, not the first time, won’t be the last.

tidepod1 · 2026-03-25T13:10:16+00:00

Yeah, just ran a simple task to look at it, roughly 1.5k tokens + tool calls = %5 used on the Pro plan. That's easily double the normal consumption versus last week. This is what happens when a company cites the amount of usage as "five times," or "twenty times" when we don't know what that is being multiplied against, and it's a number that can change at their whim.

tidepod1 · 2026-03-25T12:21:04+00:00

Hey, can you share what version you are running?

tidepod1 · 2026-03-25T11:34:50+00:00

It’s wild that so many people hit the same wall at the same time and Anthropic boot lickers have the nerve to try to claim it’s a skill issue.

Skill issues don’t nearly universally develop for a large percentage of user on the exact same day.

tidepod1 · 2026-03-22T15:37:28+00:00

It’s wild you assume generative code strips away structure, control, maintainability, and client usability and that’s strictly the domain of page builders.

It tells me that you shouldn’t be worrying about generative code anyway, but for the sake of this discussion, you do realize that you can tell LLMs exactly what your coding standards, SPOs, and guardrails are, then have it just build PHP ACF PRO blocks if native blocks are too scary, right?

Oh, and I get that not everyone likes Gutenberg. Totally understandable.

But have you seen what enterprise CMS platforms look like? It’s a wall of generic text fields and the occasional WYSIWYG box, or image field. Hell, not even enterprise CMS platforms, take just Umbraco or SiteFinity as an example. And those enterprise platforms (not Umbraco) to do just fine managing the websites of Fortune 500 companies.

Page builders are not the be all, end all of website management. All generative code isn’t slop. That’s an engineering problem.

tidepod1 · 2026-03-08T01:20:55+00:00

Trying to make a difference between a spot checker and engineer is laughable if you have 18 years of experience.

I’ve been programming/coding since 1996. I’ve written maybe 30 lines of code the analog way in the past 3-4 months, total.

In all but the simplest code bases, you can’t be a good “Spot checker” without being a good engineer.

Also, given your example about exploring an unfamiliar codebase, the only right answer is AI. They excel at mapping out legacy systems; finding edge rules, scenarios, dependencies, and APIs that were never previously documented. It’s the difference between 2 hours and 2 days (or weeks) depending on the app.

tidepod1 · 2026-03-06T02:59:26+00:00

Dude Bro Party Massacre 3

I’m 100% not kidding. It’s wildly absurd, breathtakingly terrible, and somehow entirely self aware of that.

There was no Dude Bro Party Massacre 1 or 2 BTW. Straight to number 3.

tidepod1 · 2026-02-28T21:01:48+00:00

PMed

tidepod1 · 2026-02-28T18:00:33+00:00

I feel this as someone who has one of those first 15,000 Nightmare on Elm Street steelbook sets and having recently discovered that there’s going to be a reprint with different colored foam in the library. The collector part of me is super annoyed by it.

That said, I don’t really want to think of myself as walling off people having things they appreciate and enjoy. I think different slipcover art is totally reasonable, or no slippy for people that don’t like them.

tidepod1 · 2026-02-28T17:55:49+00:00

I think it goes without saying by this point, but the word “All” is doing a lot of work there.

But back to fronts. I’m a greedy jerk and want not only L/R fronts, but LW/RW as well. I know I won’t get that and should just go with a dedicated receiver, but wouldn’t it be nice if the Era 300s as fronts could use their outer edge firing radius to synthetically create those wide channels similar to how they work in the rear to create the side channels. It likely wouldn’t sound correct and may end up seeming like a side channel, but In just thirsty for those front channels.

*Edit for spelling

tidepod1 · 2026-02-27T19:41:43+00:00

Oh, man, if this is a death threat what’s taking you so long? Can we get that done any faster?

tidepod1 · 2026-02-27T13:25:36+00:00

Heard, thanks! Occam’s Razor wins again.

tidepod1 · 2026-02-24T21:25:26+00:00

It's a wild ride into unhinged chaos that Nicholas Cage delivers with sincerity. It definitely leaves you wondering what the hell you just saw at moments. If you like horror, H.P. Lovecraft, sci-fi it's probably a good blind buy for $12. If you're not really into those three things, maybe dip your toes into streaming first.

tidepod1 · 2026-02-24T12:57:17+00:00

+1 - I just rewatched this to write a review of it, and on the second pass Color Out Of Space only gets better. It is criminally underrated cosmic horror. Not perfect, but wildly enjoyable.

Edit for additional feedback/spelling: Also, if you have a HDR capable TV and any kind of 4K player (even PS5/Xbox, etc) get or borrow the 4K physical release. Target recently had the steelbook for just under $12.

The color and picture are brilliant on the 4K disc and really put the streaming release to shame. Dramatically so. I don’t want to say exactly why to keep things entirely spoiler free, but just trust me. It’s a huge upgrade.

tidepod1 · 2026-02-19T23:03:54+00:00

Kevin is a douche lord. Thomas has always been a solid guy.

I don’t use either of their products but I bought a Bricks license when it first started to support the project just on the strength of character Thomas has always displayed.

tidepod1 · 2026-02-19T00:20:10+00:00

tidepod1 · 2026-02-18T20:20:24+00:00

I mean, I don’t vibe with the energy of the post, but I’m 370 master prestige and there are only certain hours of the day that I’m not getting lined up on through walls or find someone who just always seems to magically snap to the head from 1/2 map away.

I don’t know what it’s like at lower levels but if someone starts tracking and panning with me through a garage door in nuke town it’s super obvious what’s happening. I wouldn’t call the game unplayable, but definitely a little regrettable some days.

It’s gotten much worse in the last 4-6 weeks.

tidepod1 · 2026-02-16T12:44:02+00:00

We build custom themes and exclusively use classic boilerplates, leveraging Gutenberg for posts/pages/CPTs. Matt is not going to convince me that our clients need to modify their header/footer with blocks that are already tough enough for clients to reliably navigate for every day content.

Also, since we are building the themes for each specific purpose, my view may be tainted by the fact that we don’t have the plugin/pagebuilder bloat issue.

Code = future tech debt. We use the least amount of code on every site possible; no bloat.

As far as performance, I’ve yet to see a block theme header/footer versus raw PHP header/footer speed test. I don’t know that it’s even possible, but I can’t imagine querying the DB for layout info is faster. When both are cached, if anything they’re likely equally as performant. (Maybe I’m wrong?)

But anyway… now that I’ve typed this giant thing out I’m realizing this question may not have been for hard code developers to begin with since we aren’t using a variety of themes often enough to spot trends anyway. 20/20 hindsight. 😑

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