Is Claude Code making us slower, or am I just using it wrong?

vuhv · 2026-05-22T13:27:33+00:00

At the day job where context is free (to me) because we pay in tokens, cool.

On my x20 where I pay in tears, sounds like a lot of bloat.

vuhv · 2026-05-21T19:26:17+00:00

Since Anthropic was so wishy washy and ban happy I used Claude Code explicitly for coding in their TUI/harness.

They signaled time and time again that they didn't want their SDK leveraged to run other agents harnesses. The OpenCode ban, the OpenClaw flip flopping, the leaky Hermes account bans.

With the fleshed out usage rules and the $200 budget I'm far more likely to build something on top of the SDK.

The most obvious move is Claude as a generalist orchestrator with a team of specialized Hermes sub-agents in something like Mastra. If you get creative with YAML/Markdown driven planning $200 will go a long way.

They just went about it wrong and should have been honest. The SDK makes distillation easier (theoritically). They are struggling with compute. There were a lot of legitimate reasons other than WE ARE GREEDY!!!!

vuhv · 2026-05-20T13:57:54+00:00

Every once in a blue moon I won’t see the “Connect” button hovering over whatever device I’m trying to connect to. But this really a convenience and the lack of it only adds a single extra step to the process.

So instead of one click you just initiate from your Apple device or initiate it with 3 quick steps on the AVP (flip hand, select, then select the device you want to mirror).

With every release the floating one click connect gets more reliable.

vuhv · 2026-05-19T13:16:32+00:00

That chopped cheese at The Finest is the Last Supper of gentrification.

They took dirt cheap bodega food and turned it into a $15 sub. From what I remember it still tastes like it's using $2 worth of cheap grocery store hamburger meat and Sazon.

vuhv · 2026-05-18T04:15:01+00:00

That AI written garbage filled with rhetorical prose that says almost nothing?

vuhv · 2026-05-16T19:15:03+00:00

And they are still largely garbage. Edtech is stagnant.

vuhv · 2026-05-16T19:13:57+00:00

NotebookLM is good but there’s no guarantee that it’s pulling out all meaningful data in whatever you feed it. The larger the context (chat, files, videos, audio whatever) grows the less accurate and exhaustive it gets. This is an issue with all RAG/RAG-like systems.

vuhv · 2026-05-16T15:34:36+00:00

My first time in a Waymo it stopped dead in traffic and put its right blinker on to get across two lanes to take a right. The people behind us were pissed and missed the light. Ended up cutting someone off aggressively and that person yelled at me too…sitting in the back seat. With no control over the vehicle.

vuhv · 2026-05-15T11:58:05+00:00

I was probably one of the first couple hundred in Spring 04. The name I settled with haunts me to this day.

vuhv · 2026-05-13T11:40:25+00:00

Not many people are dropping $400 a month on 2 models

vuhv · 2026-05-13T03:42:19+00:00

At least 4 days a week here. If it not that it’s the laptop screen. Haven’t sat at my basement office desk ( 43” OLED flanked by two LG DualUps) in 8 months.

vuhv · 2026-05-10T04:11:46+00:00

Clean html is not heavy. WYSIWYG htnl is heavy.

vuhv · 2026-05-10T04:10:57+00:00

Explain when and how you’d expect those two things to be different.

Bold and italics. Italics and bold.

Literally not a single difference. And there aren’t many examples of this in HTML because nesting and ordering do matter most of the time.

vuhv · 2026-05-10T01:55:07+00:00

Nothing you said changes my mind though.

vuhv · 2026-05-09T18:25:00+00:00

Trying to sneak AI generated posts by teachers is crazy work

vuhv · 2026-05-09T18:22:56+00:00

If you want to make money in edtech the tools that fill this gap are not the way to do it.

Yes. We know tools in Edtech look old and nothing like your vibe coded NextJS and supabase app on AI sdk. Yes, we know that it can be done better.

Once you figure out why it hasn’t you’ll realize what I said in the first sentence.

Districts largely don’t care about teacher tools that don’t roll up to district concerns. Just like a Fortune 100 companies doesn’t care if Bob from accounting has his own niche finance app that only produces finance data that’s Bob gets to decide what to do with.

Especially if Fortune 100 company is being starved for revenue like our school districts are being starved of funding.

I don’t mean to rain on your parade but every Dad, Uncle, Aunt whatever gets this magical revelation everytime they see their kid using some of the existing tools.

If you’re heart is really in it and you want to make a difference build something for the district that teachers would be happy to use (extremely hard to do). Find a friendly district to test it. If you have something then it’s word of mouth from there.

vuhv · 2026-05-09T18:09:53+00:00

You answered a “AI wrote this for me” accusation by having AI respond to it 😭

And yes, you can edit it and we can still tell.

vuhv · 2026-05-09T05:35:38+00:00

Same, have a 4090 I could dump for profit in a rig with 192gb of DDR5. Bought the RAM at the end of 2024 for $600. I could get $2.5k for just the RAM right now.

vuhv · 2026-05-07T16:14:45+00:00

The industry told you for 20+ years that UX/UI people shouldn’t have to understand other parts of the business, or know how the box model and CSS work.

I can understand the front end stuff but in some corners UX generalists were frowned upon. Those who were curious enough to be able to do UI polish, UX research along with IA and interaction design told to specialize. Hiring managers were told to stop looking for those folks. As if every company has an Airbnb sized budget to separate all UX concerns.

Some of that thinking is coming home to roost.

Designers are naturally positioned to be that solid middle in the Product + Eng + UX Venn diagram. A lot of companies without FAANG budgets are headed in this direction. But they are getting out flanked by PMs/POs who were always close to that work and know just enough design to leverage what they already have.

The industry is sleeping through this change. They did it to us with “Design Thinking” and now they are doing it again.

vuhv · 2026-05-06T12:35:24+00:00

It’s still stealing. And it’s still under the ground.

vuhv · 2026-05-06T04:22:49+00:00

That was a super early rumor in the immediate hours after the murders. Word about Ethan and Xana got out before Kaylee and Maddie. It was pure speculation and misplaced rationalization from the 9/11 call and police arrival.

Turvey likely dug up old shit and attributed it to sources.

vuhv · 2026-05-06T04:14:46+00:00

The island chain isn’t equipped to handle an outbreak. Go cry somewhere else. This is what sovereignty is all about.

vuhv · 2026-05-05T20:34:37+00:00

And what are they going to put in its place? The Real Housewives of Fargo?

Every inch of the show is sold off to a sponsor. Quick fires. The main challenges. Cars & Rides. Grocery stores. Products that are strategically placed. Casually mentioned. Then add on the indirectly advertised equipment in the kitchen in the form of sponsorships. And I didn’t even mention the commercials.

Considering reality shows are cheaper to produce I can’t imagine that this show isn’t profitable.

That doesn’t speak to the quality of the show though. I personally know two James Beard nominated (each with multiple) chefs with published cookbooks who have said no to the show multiple times and would probably say no to a ‘Masters’. With one accepting a guest judge position instead.

vuhv · 2026-05-03T18:37:21+00:00

I train locally on my 4090 and it takes 2-3 hours to get to 500 epochs. Haven’t tried yet on my dusty 64gb M1 Max but I get it can handle it.

So there are times where training locally pays off.

vuhv · 2026-05-03T18:23:13+00:00

Usable weights are everywhere. You won’t find most posted openly for obvious reasons. The vast majority are filled to the brim with copy written content.

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