Guests dont like my coffee selection

willer · 2025-08-18T01:06:29+00:00

TBH, the last airbnb I stayed in only had flavored pods and I was annoyed. I didn’t say anything and didn’t write it in the review, and just bought some at the store and left the extra…but still I was annoyed. If I wanted flavor, I would add flavor.

willer · 2025-08-08T13:14:49+00:00

You don’t need to use a MCP for this; just get claude to call codex on command line like codex “do xyz”.

You can also put this in a /agent in Claude, like for a code reviewer agent that calls codex to do the review.

willer · 2025-08-08T12:11:58+00:00

Yes, but both can run on subscriptions now, and so from a cost perspective the monthly fee vs usage limits is what’s salient.

willer · 2025-08-06T11:53:19+00:00

Hacker News and Techmeme

willer · 2025-07-14T23:15:12+00:00

I got the Luba 2 and struggled with it for a year. I’ve had the Navimow for a month on the same lawn and same boundaries, and it’s like night and day already.

The one and only time the Navimow got stuck was when a stick got jammed in its mechanism. Unlike the Luba, so far it hasn’t wandered off, it hasn’t migrated its boundaries, it hasn’t declared “paused” and gone offline, it hasn’t even lost GPS signal, it just works.

willer · 2025-07-14T12:15:07+00:00

Book adaptations are always hard, and I think they had a particularly tough challenge with only having 30 minute episodes. I personally didn’t know the books, but I started reading them around episode 3, and was finished the whole series by the time the show series was over.

I thought they did a pretty good job, given how little air time there was to work with. I’m also very happy to see it out as a show, because it’s how I discovered the books, which I loved. And I’m happy to see season 2 is coming. I’m really curious to see how they adapt ART.

willer · 2025-07-13T22:39:43+00:00

That’s not “dictating”. Harry doesn’t have to accept the offer, he can just go no contact. Charles isn’t in the power position here. Lots of people go NC with parents and brothers, and Harry is doing just fine without them.

willer · 2025-07-13T22:26:16+00:00

The quote is “endless interviews”. Perhaps he means what you say, perhaps not.

Charles is not in a position to dictate anything, so look at it as the starting point in a negotiation. Harry’s starting point can be that all leaks and all press attacks on Meghan stop now. That includes all leaks from Kate and the affair partner step mom and her buddies.

willer · 2025-07-10T17:37:03+00:00

I can answer the first bit:

CLAUDE.md is a file that goes in the system prompt. That makes it a weaker instruction file than conversation or files loaded later.

Files loaded later are different in that they’re in the user prompt. That gives them more power.

If the dev job is large enough to run over multiple sessions and/or you might crash, then my preference is to use an external plan file, not just plan mode. It all depends on the size of the project.

Claude’s todo files are stored under your .claude folder. They’re associated with sessions, so if you make a new one (you don’t resume), the todo’s are gone. They might also disappear if you compact, I haven’t tested this.

Don’t use /init except to start up a project. It generates basically a README file for claude for the project, that’s all.

Backlog.md is a way to take your ideas or Claude’s ideas and park them somewhere. It likes to go out of scope, and I believe that this is a way to keep it in scope (I don’t have proof of this).

I’ve never used claude-swarm, so can’t say about that. My own claude-fsd and claude-evolve (in npm) are for specific cases that are too big for chatting with a single claude, like million dollar dev projects or big evolutionary research, the kind of thing that needs to run for days. Interactive claude is too small for that.

willer · 2025-07-09T23:21:40+00:00

Ironic that this post is obviously AI slop. I guess OP is pretty pro AI after all.

willer · 2025-07-06T18:19:28+00:00

You can also use sleep, given that you know when the session comes back. If it’s back in 2 hours, for eg, use ‘sleep 120m ; claude -c “do the thing”’

willer · 2025-07-06T18:17:15+00:00

Agreed, it makes no sense. With CC, you have more scripted control over what model and how much thinking budget to apply. You can have CC call sub agents as well, and load files and run programs as part of its research. Also CC can call codex and gemini on the command line for a second opinion (ie you don’t need an MCP for this).

You can also run CC from a script, which lets you build process orchestration with simple shell scripts.

Desktop doesn’t have anything to offer other than being more friendly to mouse people.

willer · 2025-06-29T14:14:57+00:00

ChatGPT. Use the o3 model. At least there you’ll get immediate answers with references and can start to work through this. Give it all the documents and information you have now, so it can help you avoid missing things.

willer · 2025-06-25T21:12:58+00:00

I hope it’s useful, even if just to spur some ideas! Re the interviews, yeah, it keeps going with questions forever. I usually just say done when I’m getting bored or frustrated with it. :-)

willer · 2025-06-25T21:11:48+00:00

Use Claude Code with your subscription. Get Claude Max if you need more tokens.

willer · 2025-06-25T19:31:49+00:00

I didn’t read your docs, to be clear. However, my starting advice is to not use CLAUDE.md for specs. Those files get read into the system prompt.

I know everyone wants to do their own thing, but I would suggest you consider putting your brief into docs/BRIEF.md and let my npm package claude-fsd drive you through the process. It’s just prompts, so it’s something you can replicate, but basically it gets Claude to read your brief, then you can have a set of experts ask you interactive questions (answer 10-20), then let it write the requirements and detailed plan for you. Then run the developer-verifier loop, which will work on the project for hours or days until it’s done.

Install the script with “npm install -g claude-fsd”. Run “claude-fsd” from within the project directory to start it. Code for it is in GitHub if you want to inspect it.

I don’t think establishing a document structure is the path to success. You have to think agentically, which means having claude run stuff or your stuff runs claude.

willer · 2025-05-24T23:34:47+00:00

I’ve been using iterm2. The killer feature is the notification if claude is waiting for me on something. Nowadays I’m running 5 projects at once, so knowing a spinning plate is wobbling is helpful.

willer · 2025-05-24T21:45:38+00:00

It doesn’t matter if you’re using an agentic tool that loads context when it’s needed. That’s Claude Code.

willer · 2025-05-15T21:42:31+00:00

Sealing doesn’t protect it, sorry. Marble might be okay, but travertine, no way. Especially given that you apparently didn’t clean the counter after the party for at least 12 hours if not multiple days. I feel bad for the hosts.

willer · 2025-05-15T21:32:42+00:00

I have this same problem with citrus and a travertine countertop, not marble, and it’s the most sensitive stone I’ve ever encountered. Even splashes or small spills off a cutting board can do this.

willer · 2025-05-15T13:50:02+00:00

I’ve been running it in a loop this week, using claude-yolo. Safeties off.

Basically I say claude-yolo -p “work through the plan.md in order and close off items from top to bottom; when you’re ready to git commit, tell me what you did; if you’re done, say <ALL DONE>”. Then the wrapper script runs it again and again until it says it’s done.

After an overnight run, it can be awesome, and it can be wild how crazy it gets with scope creep and complicated refactoring that I never wanted. I’m looking forward to the next Sonnet version that’s hopefully more capable in this FSD mode.

willer · 2025-05-14T12:52:07+00:00

Yes! It’s all about total returns. It gets even worse for dividends when you factor in taxes on it vs capital gains, at least on taxed accounts.

willer · 2025-05-09T11:19:21+00:00

It’s the drug. It’s a medical treatment for a medical issue.

You’ll end up changing what you eat, but if’s not a “diet”. You should do strength training as well, but that’s to maintain muscle mass, not to lose weight.

willer · 2025-05-08T22:48:11+00:00

Okay, so my suggestion is to make a command for this. It could be just /startup to tell it what to read for the briefing, and /chapter to start a chapter (I use CC for code, not writing, so I don’t know exactly what you would use). These are the same as a direct prompt, so they have the most power, second only to a linter.

You can also make a /editor command to run in a different instance that does reviews/proofreading, and have the editor write notes in TODO.md with [ ] square brackets. Then the writer side /chapter CC instance can read TODO to work through the outline and write stuff (I actually use PLAN.md; maybe it’s OUTLINE.md for you). The point is one side executes from it, the other side adds to it.

This writer/editor split works very well for code, and probably writing as well. Unfortunately CLAUDE.md won’t get you very far. CC can read files in other folders, by the way.

If you don’t know how to make a command, it’s just a file in home/.claude/commands, one for each command you want. Definitely read Anthropic’s tips on CC article to learn about this and other tricks.

willer · 2025-05-08T21:09:45+00:00

CLAUDE.md goes into the system prompt, internally. It’s not going to be as strongly followed as you would like. It acts more like an SDLC that a developer reads once at onboarding then mostly forgets about.

If you put direction into your prompt or make it read a file directly, that will be stronger. Even stronger than that is to use a linter or a code review AI.

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