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oefrha

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oefrha
·anteayer·discuss
There’s reason I wrote high info density documentation and comments rather than committed every StackOverflow page I viewed during development pre-AI.
oefrha
·hace 3 días·discuss
I wouldn’t call it a recipe for disaster, but oh boy if you leave an agent that “hammers until it gets there” on its own with an underlying bug in a dependency…
oefrha
·hace 5 días·discuss
Yeah, I checked usage stats and pretty sure quota consumption on Max plan is not linear wrt to usage by API pricing. Fable burns quota faster than 2x Opus with equal token count.

Plus I'm also not super impressed; it somehow managed to implement a 200L custom TCP server for a simple static HTTP mock server for a single test case (all that was needed was a fixed route returning a fixed placeholder string) just yesterday. Never seen anything like that.
oefrha
·hace 8 días·discuss
I have this in my global CLAUDE.md after being annoyed by all the random crap memories.

> Don't start generating an auto-memory entry before asking me. Ask first, write only if I confirm — no speculative drafting.

No more crap after this.

Incidentally I don’t recall Opus 4.8 asking me once in the past few weeks. Older models did ask semi-frequently.
oefrha
·hace 14 días·discuss
Which is a good thing. Self-serving motives are more reliable than altruistic ones.
oefrha
·hace 15 días·discuss
When the biggest thieves are on track to trillion dollar valuations, what do you expect. Everything on the Internet is free for all now, don’t kid yourself.
oefrha
·hace 18 días·discuss
That’s just a wall of text for “malware detection is hard, write everything yourself, don’t use third party”. Thanks for the insight, I guess.
oefrha
·hace 19 días·discuss
> anthropic red lines

Alleged red lines. Could be just talking points for garnering sympathy. Big tech aren’t exactly known for being truthful, especially big tech partnering with esteemed Palantir.
oefrha
·hace 23 días·discuss
Hmm I have a couple Alibaba Cloud servers located in CN Hangzhou region and I just pay with my U.S. credit card, no Alipay needed. alibabacloud.com is meant for international customers anyway. I’m not sure if aliyun.com accepts international CCs, maybe you’re using that.
oefrha
·hace 24 días·discuss
To save you a read of the original while still having enough context, here's the whole section on crypto:

> crypto: spec and test-driven development to the rescue

> Cryptographic code is famously hard, with many, many footguns haunting unsuspecting developers (and even experts!).

> But, cryptography also has something that you likely won't find in any other domain: an extensive public collection of test vectors, particularly for edge cases. Every algorithm specification come with a basic suite of test vectors, but there are also community-built wonders such as Wycheproof.

> These test vectors, combined with the official specification documents of the crypto algorithms were rather effective to guide the coding agents and avoid the worst hallucinations.

> Cost: ~ $30

> Time: multiple days of part-time work.

> I'm under no illusion that the crypto crate is currently bug-free, but if my experience told me anything, it's that even experienced programmers are shipping bugs in crypto libraries. So, for similar outcomes, but using 1/100 of the time and at maybe 1/1000 of the cost, I think it's a clear demonstratin of AI's effectiveness.

Yeah, terrifyingly clueless, don't use.
oefrha
·hace 24 días·discuss
Sounds good? They can pay for code they want to train on. There are plenty of companies sending me offers to code training materials for them for $50-100/hr. Don’t expect to charge me an arm and a leg for inference and then also train on my code.
oefrha
·hace 26 días·discuss
Call it Intelligence Store and charge… wait for it… 30%.
oefrha
·hace 26 días·discuss
I wouldn’t mind so much if it didn’t automatically create the user folder based on real name on the MS account, with space in it, fucking up and complicating all sorts of things.
oefrha
·el mes pasado·discuss
My status line shows 5h and 7d quota usage among other things like model, context usage, git branch, etc. Unfortunately the whole status line disappears half of the time from CC’s broken ass UI.
oefrha
·el mes pasado·discuss
Sounds reasonable given the recent YOLO GC debacle https://discuss.python.org/t/reverting-the-incremental-gc-in....
oefrha
·el mes pasado·discuss
> Nobody nowadays goes "you are an expert software engineer. make no mistakes"

You know what, I checked Opus 4.8's instructions to a review subagent the other day and it literally opened with

> You are a senior infrastructure/security engineer doing a thorough, adversarial code review...

I didn't say anything like that myself.
oefrha
·el mes pasado·discuss
I’d be shocked if the Pentagon isn’t running an AI propaganda mill targeting <insert any region of the world>.
oefrha
·el mes pasado·discuss
Apparently https://github.com/scanaislop/aislop with AGENTS.md is not AI slop, but projects of mine last modified before 2016 all contain critical AI slop. So very accurate.
oefrha
·el mes pasado·discuss
> when was the last time you heard about the Chinese space stations outside China?

Last year, when negative news of delayed astronaut return was all over American news, e.g. [1][2]. Apparently makes American astronauts onboard Boeing ship being stuck in space less embarrassing.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/science/space/china-space...

[2] https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/05/china/china-shenzhou-20-a...
oefrha
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Using text-align: justify for questionable aesthetic purpose here really hurts readability, especially on a narrower viewport like the 1026px viewport of Safari with sidebar on an iPad Pro 12.9’’ (although it’s probably more of a problem of the four column layout on that specific narrow viewport; three should be better).