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I used Claude Code for a month because my boss gifted me a sub and wanted me to try it. I used that month to complete a work project and then beef up my person
by wolttam 4mo ago
I used Claude Code for a month because my boss gifted me a sub and wanted me to try it.
I used that month to complete a work project and then beef up my personal harness so I'd never have to deal with Anthropic (and these sorts of shenanigans) again.
- tonmoy 4mo agoWhat models are you using? Aren’t you still dealing with some provider even if you are not using their binary
- wolttam 4mo agoI self-host DeepSeek V4 Flash on 2 DGX Sparks (approx. $10k) I expect DeepSeek V4 Flash (or an equivalently sized model) to reach parity with GLM 5.2 some time this year (this based on DeepSeek V4 Flash launching at GLM 5.0 parity[0], and GLM 5.2 being freely available to distill from) GLM 5.2 is within spitting distance of Opus 4.8 and is at least as good as Opus 4.6[1] which some devs were willing to spend hundreds to single-digit thousands of dollars a month for a few months ago. [0]: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/comparisons/deepseek-v4-flash-vs-glm-5 https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/comparisons/deepseek-v4... [1]: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/comparisons/claude-opus-4-6-vs-glm-5-2 https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/comparisons/claude-opus...
- ipsod 4mo agoHow fast is it?
- wolttam 4mo ago2000 t/s prompt processing and 40-50 t/s generation. We should see 60-70 t/s generation with DSpark support solidifying in vLLM in a few days Recent discussion on DSpark: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696585 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696585
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- tiahura 4mo agoPhased rollouts are a triggering microagression for some.
- thih9 4mo agoHow do people build something like a personal harness? Are there tools for that or is it done from scratch?
- kolinko 4mo agoIt’s not that difficult, it’s just a system prompt and a set of basic file edit/bash/etc tools. Me, personally, I didn’t build it from scratch but I ported original CC from published sources into Python and extended it to match my own requirements.
- andai 4mo agoAre you using it with Claude? They only allow their own harness with the subs right? (And per-token billing is like 10x more expensive?)
- wolttam 4mo agoI started mine from scratch in 2023 because I wanted to use LLMs from a terminal and there was nothing else compelling at the time (nowadays there is pi and opencode) Harnesses are/can be incredibly simple things, not much more than a HTTP client that renders things in a way that suites your taste.
- hakunin 4mo agoNot the comment author, but I use pi and customize it with my own extensions. Pi automatically tells models how to customize itself, so it's a pretty easy process.
- nowittyusername 4mo agoBuild it from scratch. Understanding fundamentals of how agentic coding harnesses is a must though if you gonna go that route. I think everyone should take time and learn these things, maybe reverse engineer Codex Cli or something like that as a starter. That info is very valuable in this day and age.
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- krupan 4mo agoGiven the Anthropic shenanigans, do you trust the personal harness code it wrote for you?
- MichaelZuo 4mo agoDoes anyone know what’s gone wrong with Anthropic? They used to be a decently credible company with not-too-shady behaviour... I hope they can actually regain some credibility…
- AlexandrB 4mo agoThey've only been around 5 years and have grown tremendously during that time. There's no stable reputation you can rely on yet.
- skeptic_ai 4mo agoThey just show their true face. You’ve been lied all this time. They were never “good”.
- MichaelZuo 4mo agoI used to interact with the LW crowd… and they were mostly not outright swindlers or scoundrels. (from what I could sense) I think it’s fair to say most had decent respectability. Anthropic hired heavily from that pool so it’s astonishing how it turned out.
- solenoid0937 4mo agoEverything they do is understandable if you think they are being honest when they say they're building superintelligence. In this case they want to prevent a nation that censors its citizenry, puts/disappears dissidents into concentration camps for decades, and makes its own human rights lawyers literally eat their own shit, before raping and/or murdering them, from reaching superintelligence. In this light, some client side code to potentially identify and ban the Chinese labs to slow them down by even a few days, is totally reasonable.
- helloplanets 4mo agoThe issue is that using Claude Code is an easy compromise for most to make, when you get to use the models 10x cheaper than through API pricing with a custom harness. The cheap tokens are the product.
- nananana9 4mo agoWhich is why my vibeslop harness supports `claude -p` as one of its backends.
- helloplanets 4mo agoIf that ain't getting steganographically tagged...
- nananana9 4mo agoWith Anthropic I already assume the contents every request I send is stored forever in a table that looks more or less like USER_ID, REQ_IP_ADDRESS, ACCOUNT_CREDIT_CARD_NUMBER, REQ, RESP. I'm fine with that, chances are that Claude will delete this table behind Anthropic's back and give them an essay about why what they're doing is immoral.
- WinstonSmith84 4mo agoYes, this is actually "funny" that Anthropic feels the need to build such intrusive features into Claude Code, when anybody can build a (basic) Claude Code alternative. And the Chinese labs are certainly not "anybody". One may wonder what Anthropic really tries to achieve aside from awful publicity.