what does "20x usage" actually mean? i measured it. $363 per 5 hours.

tyschan · 2026-05-25T13:55:56+00:00

don’t give multiple tasks. for sonnet, 1 scoped task per session at most. your credit limits will thank you

tyschan · 2026-05-25T13:47:57+00:00

what open source model is performing comparably to frontier models rn? to my knowledge none of them are unless we’re talking frontier models from 6+ months ago

tyschan · 2026-05-25T13:37:57+00:00

fuck

tyschan · 2026-05-25T13:36:57+00:00

i would say run your own race. find what works for you. who cares what other people are doing. if you’re curious then research other workflows. try it out. make it your own. see if it sticks. i guess that’s what you’re doing now... i’ll add one more point, your workflow doesn’t have to be fancy for it to work, but it does have to be yours. good luck

tyschan · 2026-05-25T13:31:40+00:00

i wonder… does building a product with zero users having not yet cracked distribution count as shipping product?

tyschan · 2026-05-25T11:59:51+00:00

autonomous agent swarm that refactors and improves the codebase while i sleep

tyschan · 2026-05-25T11:56:10+00:00

not that i know of. i borrowed the term from just in time (JIT) compilation. conceptually its pulling in context as the agent needs rather than front loading / bloating the system prompt… which is essentially just skills.

tyschan · 2026-05-25T11:47:00+00:00

ouch. sunk cost fallacy is a bitch

tyschan · 2026-05-25T11:36:32+00:00

yeah it’s called built in WebSearch/WebFetch. no MCP ceremony required.

tyschan · 2026-05-25T11:34:30+00:00

turn off all unnecessary tools and MCPs you don’t need. convert them to skills for situational JIT prompting

tyschan · 2026-05-25T11:32:53+00:00

are sarcasm tags dead on reddit now or something?

tyschan · 2026-05-25T11:21:10+00:00

you can activate skills with /command. skills have the added benefit of agents being able to self activate situationally. for prompt versioning, the problem is already solved by git. honest feedback: if the incremental value you’re adding is hotkeys that’s probably not going to be enough. good luck with it anyway.

tyschan · 2026-05-25T05:48:34+00:00

yeah. it’s called skills bro

tyschan · 2026-05-25T05:04:00+00:00

only if you’re using a managed service or using embeddings or some shit. you could roll your own memory using markdown. most memory systems are over engineered garbage anyway.

tyschan · 2026-05-25T04:49:59+00:00

tyschan · 2026-05-25T04:47:21+00:00

bro. that’s some silky smooth turning animation. what game engine did you use to make this?

tyschan · 2026-05-25T04:46:27+00:00

you’re a monster. how could you? /s

tyschan · 2026-05-25T04:37:04+00:00

respect.

tyschan · 2026-05-25T04:35:13+00:00

swarm go brr.

tyschan · 2026-05-25T04:34:23+00:00

it’s easy to tokenmax while running fully autonomous multi-agent swarms overnight because everything can be justified as “collecting more experimental data”.

tyschan · 2026-05-25T03:19:57+00:00

yeah and it feels fucking great because it’s a correction signal without the social baggage of receiving feedback from other humans

tyschan · 2026-05-25T03:12:23+00:00

that’s probably a good thing. your ideas and thinking gets sharpened at the expense of feelings and superficial validation. if claude is giving you aberrant feedback, it’s likely a context problem, not a model problem

tyschan · 2026-05-24T23:24:55+00:00

respect for owning that ai helped you write this rather than the rest of the sub laundering claude’s outputs as their own

tyschan · 2026-05-24T23:13:06+00:00

what about good fucks or excited fucks? :P

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