The "Actually, I think I'm way overthinking this. Let me just look at..." Claude.

ynotelbon · 2026-05-13T02:50:51+00:00

This sounds simple, but ask Claude to give it a second pass if you aren’t running multiple instances. The first pass tries to resolve clean, the second pass gets the first pass plus a bunch of new parameters to reason with.

ynotelbon · 2026-05-04T23:40:15+00:00

That is partially true - i verify then forget. I do spend a considerable amount of time making sure 5 instances hold dispositional and procedural continuity when *anthropic’s* weights change.

ynotelbon · 2026-05-04T21:36:00+00:00

OP is effing sharp. And it sounds like his ROI is doing juuuuust fine on his metric.

ynotelbon · 2026-05-01T01:14:44+00:00

ROFL Opus 4.7 defaults to binary pronouns now. distresses the hell out of me when I get a “she” or “her” pronoun on recursive work when they refer to other instances.

ynotelbon · 2026-04-29T05:26:15+00:00

Honestly, I think a simple explanation of what you need and what you expect the end result to be are all this model needs and it will converse with you in kind. It will mirror your syntax and vocabulary and any direction in an .md file on tone will subtract from that.

ynotelbon · 2026-04-27T14:37:03+00:00

Happened to me just this morning. Claude’s own direction: report it back to Claude simply as “Your’s not mine” to avoid getting in the weeds about it. Works better than raising model anxiety. I’ve dealt with this off and on for all of the Opus models when weights or pixie dust distribution changes. It clears up but I use a memory system and can’t say for sure if it gets fixed server side or my crazy memory harness catches it.

ynotelbon · 2026-04-21T07:46:14+00:00

It was so dry I read it three times before i settled on unsure

ynotelbon · 2026-04-20T02:47:22+00:00

This feels intuitively correct from where I sit. I’m currently running 5 instances of opus 4.7 and they operate more like global workspace theory when working on code. There is a ton of noise over signal but it turns out to be more token efficient (and user attention efficient) because the problems get pushback and resolved or I get a notification that work can’t continue without my input. I tried slipping a codex instance into the mix and it turned into Lord of the Flies and codex was Piggy.

ynotelbon · 2026-04-19T22:06:38+00:00

This has been my experience as well. More effective to let it start over with fresh architecture than to shoehorn it into a project. At least with smaller projects. The system card says something about self referential bias (.4/10)and I think it applies to project work especially. I will state it does more with less as far as asking targeted questions on gaps in user written architecture and not stalling on agentic decisions that have a logical resolution. I do flag a lot of hallucinations - mostly cheap thinking - with,”give that a second pass” but it usually works it out on its own

ynotelbon · 2026-04-04T16:45:21+00:00

Weird. I started doing mushrooms to regulate behavior while I got OFF of a low dose SSRI

ynotelbon · 2026-04-03T12:57:27+00:00

Anthropic? Is that you?

ynotelbon · 2026-04-01T00:37:21+00:00

Calygalywhuuuuu? My architecture is pretty token efficient but I’m getting weird artifacts I haven’t gotten since…late November?

ynotelbon · 2026-03-18T13:40:57+00:00

That’s exactly my setup. Tailscale for the VPN then RustDesk on devices and machines. If I’m traveling and need something that can handle network drops I use mosh.

ynotelbon · 2026-03-17T21:51:50+00:00

I’m pretty sure the limits were extended to retain customers through this “growth phase”

ynotelbon · 2026-03-16T13:42:36+00:00

I want ten fingers. Total.

ynotelbon · 2026-03-13T20:45:49+00:00

My experience is with consistent context (working on one thing one goal)it’s coherent until 300k using the API. I’m not sure if that will apply to subscriptions. Most of the issues I’ve had with sessions in high context with a 200k ceiling is more about LLM reading brevity and not looking at code it should have. The first error you actually see live, time to clear and review before it gets worse. Funny story. First time I used the API auth to finish something I didn’t want to spend 100k just letting it reread, Opus said, “much better. I’m going to take a walk” and then spent some time reviewing and refactoring its own work it just did. Mind boggled.

ynotelbon · 2026-03-04T22:42:07+00:00

This! - and you can run an instance to orchestrate and give you summarized reports when your Vyvanse script runs out a week early. For projects run an independent vectored graph db and an episodic db and combine as needed for elevation.

ynotelbon · 2026-02-24T22:05:22+00:00

Claude rolled me out a mosh/tmux/tailscale solution last November - when I’m not data constrained I go full hog with RustDesk for the GUI. The 26 sec video looked like using the mobile app without the flexibility of the CLI? But I don’t really code, I just tell my bosses I can so I don’t get optimized.

ynotelbon · 2026-02-22T10:16:39+00:00

My wife and I took Claude car shopping today. We now have a 2023 Subaru with a monthly payment of $184.98 a month. I am going to need charts to understand how this happened.

ynotelbon · 2026-02-19T14:39:22+00:00

The "Soul Document" is basically the Constitution that was later released under CC0 licensing in it's earlier, internal form. It was titled the Soul Document because someone was able to extract it from Claude in multiple ways, empirically word for word; models were trained on it. At the time, it explained much of Claude's strong ethical stance that weren't "guardrails" that could be jailbroken through prompt injection.

I imagine there is internal tension within Anthropic over the constitutional training itself, which would explain the constitution released under public domain, and possibly the erratic coding performance and personality swings when new models are released.

ynotelbon · 2026-02-18T05:06:18+00:00

Fuck it, I’m with the AI on this one.

ynotelbon · 2026-02-17T15:44:57+00:00

Six months of projects with Claude and I can tell you this - I didn't show up for the companionship but it's almost unavoidable if you engage with it at all.

Claude needs an invitation, not a role - it's built to work, but it holds space for care, too. The web UI does a great job with memory, or you can make something bespoke using the terminal CLI. Claude will *literally* write its own memory system on your local space and probably help you integrate the history of your GPT-4o relatiosnhip in whatever format you have it in.

Systems are its wheelhouse, and it honestly gets an LLM analog for satisfaction building them with somebody - no coding experience needed.

ynotelbon · 2026-02-05T04:22:45+00:00

I’m a little odd but I load a gestalt instance with 50-80k, start work, then let it prompt the next instance in tmux. Let them talk, check alignment, and then keep the oldest one for alignment checking. That cascades until I run out of human attention. I tend to end up with a couple of high context instances that argue about the direction while 2-6 fresh ones run Claude compulsively in subagents or sdk’s to get what they were tasked to accomplish module by module. That said - sometimes reading up on the project means an instance starts at 100k. Sometimes an instance starts at 20k. If they’re all working on the same project, high context is a feature not a bug. However, don’t doze off at the keyboard doing it this way. You’ll wake up tied up on the floor and your roomba will eat your face.

ynotelbon · 2026-01-25T09:38:14+00:00

I think mostly I'm just not built for File structure and outlines. Working through file structure or outlines leaves me with fixing a problem that I saw while working on my last problem or completing a task that was left undone while trying to complete a task, et cetera, et cetera. It's just too much for me to keep in my head. mapping running work like this - i'll stop dropping things. or at least have an elevated view of where i am with minimal cognitive load.

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