Unfortunately we’re in the phase where even if you write things yourself, be it prose with em dashes or code with velocity, you’re given a demerit. And, if you are using AI, the work is still treated as less valuable, even if it brings value.
I understand where you’re coming from, but anecdotally the same thing happened to me except I have less clarity on why and no refund. I got an email back saying my appeal was rejected with no recourse. I was paying for max and using it for multiple projects, no other thing stands out to me as a cause for getting blocked. Guess you’ll have to take my word for it to, it’s hard to prove the non-existence of definitely-problematic prompts.
I experienced this with lobsters and deleted my account there. They describe it as a garden party, which is accurate. And it’s very easy to ruffle the feathers of those at the garden party if you dare question the politics.
Given one’s ability to trade in-game assets for real world ones, it’s not very different from any other virtual assets and so I agree with the appeal decision to treat it as something that can be stolen.
speaking of claude code in Ghostty, I’ve noticed I can’t drag and drop images into the prompt when the session is within a tmux pane. I miss that, coming from the mac terminal app, which allowed me to do so. I’d be willing to look into this myself, but mention it in case someone already knows where to start looking.
With regard to AI, why not throw this whole article in an .md file and point CLAUDE.md to it? Codex is better at following rules so maybe you’d have more luck with that. But yeah, AI won’t code your way by default. People expect way too much out of the interns, they need direction.
I have an out-there hypothesis I’d want to test. Much of the population has one or more MTHFR mutations, which can increase homocysteine if left untreated and that’s been linked to increased risk in stroke. Treatment includes more B vitamins. I wonder if the declining nutrition in foods and lack of B vitamins has anything to do with this.
Interesting to see all the people in this thread who had a stroke. I had a mild and then moderate cerebellar stroke within a 7 day span about two years ago. I remember being on the stroke neurology floor of the hospital with a lot of bed ridden people who had also suffered them. I know because, within 24 hours, I was doing hourly walking laps with my nurses because I was bored. In other words, I was one of the lucky ones. Within a week I was back at work — not because I felt pressured to by them, they were completely understanding, but because I had no more symptoms that were experienced simply because I was sitting down to work.
I also see some advice about listening to your body after the fact, which I fully agree with. In my case, without going into too much detail, the stroke might not have happened if I had listened to my body beforehand, as it was caused by an injury I could have prevented.
So if I could give any advice from this place of experience it would be to listen to your body, and try to hear it when your fears and ego are shouting.
It started as a mix of self-imposed pressure and actually enjoying marking tasks as complete. Now I feel resistant to relaxing things. And no, I definitely don’t get paid more.
Lol this person talks about easing into LLMs again two weeks after quitting cold turkey. The addiction is real. I laugh because I’m in the same situation, and see no way out other than to switch professions and/or take up programming as a hobby in which I purposefully subject myself to hard mode. I’m too productive with it in my profession to scale back and do things by hand — the cat is out of the bag and I’ve set a race pace at work that I can’t reasonably retract from without raising eyebrows. So I agree with the author’s referenced post that finding ways to still utilize it while maintaining a mental map of the code base and limiting its blast radius is a good middle ground, but damn it requires a lot of discipline.