JamesSwift

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by JamesSwift 5mo ago
How do things like prompt caching etc play into that? Would I theoretically have a more stable harness backing my usage? Im seriously over the current claude experience. After seemingly fixing my 4.6 usage by disabling adaptive thinking and
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by JamesSwift 6mo ago
Yes its become a hot game among socialites. Complete with a SAAS subscription for the “yearly cards” and a marketing push to play the sanctioned version.
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by JamesSwift 6mo ago
Once local models hit claude code + opus 4.5 levels that is the new normal. That is a good-enough baseline of intelligence to sustain productivity for the next 10 years or more. We are still so close to this line in the sand that theres not
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by JamesSwift 6mo ago
And the multiple concepts of subscriptions for products, and the idea of MCPs/connectors that arent shared between the different modalities, and the idea of api key vs subscription, and two different inbound websites (claude.ai and cla
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by JamesSwift 6mo ago
Absolutely its dogfooding AI and vibing huge features on the house of cards. Its a fucking mess, and the product design is simultaneously confusing and infuriating. But the product is useful and Im more productive with it than without it no
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by JamesSwift 6mo ago
Anthropic in general is miles ahead in “getting work done”, and its not just me on the team. Theres a lot of paper cuts to work through to be truly generic in provider I did try out codex before claude went to shit and it was good, even uni
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by JamesSwift 6mo ago
If i had to guess i think you have probably overstuffed the context in hopes of moulding it and gotten worse outcomes because of that. I keep the default context _extremely_ small (as small as possible) and rely on invoked slash commands f
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by JamesSwift 6mo ago
Its even more maddening for me because my whole team is paying direct API pricing for the privilege of this experience! Just charge me the cost and let me tune this thing, sheesh!
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by JamesSwift 6mo ago
Sure, but that blackbox was giving me a lot of value last month.
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by JamesSwift 6mo ago
Its especially concerning / frustrating because boris’s reply to my bug report on opus being dumber was “we think adaptive thinking isnt working” and then thats the last I heard of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by JamesSwift 6mo ago
I tend to notice it around 4pm EST
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by JamesSwift 6mo ago
Just wrap it with a script that handles the auth for you and the AI doesnt realize auth is even needed. I put my creds in ~/.config/ and write bash wrappers that read those and proxy the values into the api calls as needed.
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by JamesSwift 6mo ago
Wrapping here is literally just ``` #!/usr/bin/env bash creds={path to creds} basepath={url basepath} url={parse from args} curl -H "Authorization: #{creds}" "#{basepath}/#{url}" $rest_
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by JamesSwift 6mo ago
Hard disagree. Apis and clis have been THOROUGHLY documented for human consumption for years and guess what, the models have that context already. Not only of the docs but actual in the wild use. If you can hook up auth for an agent, using
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by JamesSwift 6mo ago
Another 1395b7d6-f2f1-4e24-a815-73852bcdeed2 It fails to answer my initial question and tells me what I need to do to check. Then it hallucinates the answer based on not researching anything, then it incorrectly comes to a conclusion that i
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by JamesSwift 6mo ago
And another where claude gets into a long cycle of "wait thats not right.. hold on... actually..." correcting itself in train of thought. It found the answer eventually but wasted a lot of cycles getting there (reporting because t
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by JamesSwift 6mo ago
Just set that flag and already getting similar poor results. new one: 93b9f545-716c-4335-b216-bf0c758dff7c
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by JamesSwift 6mo ago
Well Ive never had the issue before and have hit that / similar issues every few days over the past couple weeks.
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by JamesSwift 6mo ago
a9284923-141a-434a-bfbb-52de7329861d d48d5a68-82cd-4988-b95c-c8c034003cd0 5c236e02-16ea-42b1-b935-3a6a768e3655 22e09356-08ce-4b2c-a8fd-596d818b1e8a 4cb894f7-c3ed-4b8d-86c6-0242200ea333 Amusingly (not really), this is me tryi
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by JamesSwift 6mo ago
I commented on the GH issue, but Ive had effort set to 'high' for however long its been available and had a marked decline since... checks notes... about 23 March according to slack messages I sent to the team to see if I was alon
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by JamesSwift 6mo ago
Opus 4.6 was definitely a mixed bag for me. Overall Id probably prefer 4.5 but only just barely and I stay on 4.6 just for the "default" nature of it. But if 4.5 is unchanged vs what Ive had on 4.6 lately then 100% I would move ba
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by JamesSwift 6mo ago
Exact same timeline as me and my team. Its been maddening. Im a big believer in AI since late last year, but that is only because the models got so good. This puts us dangerously close to before that threshold was crossed so now Im having t
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by JamesSwift 6mo ago
Multiple people on our team independently have noticed a _significant_ drop in quality and intelligence on opus 4.6 the past few weeks. Glaring hallucinations, nonsensical reasoning, and ignoring data from the context immediately preceeding
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by JamesSwift 6mo ago
Well, technically bun doesnt _prevent_ hooks. It just requires opting into them. And even that also includes a default set of pre-whitelisted packages. A much better system, but not perfect. And actually just looking this up, it appears cla
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by JamesSwift 7mo ago
I dont mean to imply its a crutch. Im merely pointing out that even though people say they want to "pin to a specific version", there are usually two different motivations: - one group of people who want guarantees that what they
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by JamesSwift 7mo ago
You still are pinning to exact versions of packages (and in fact are pinning to specific shas / content hashes of the packages) but you are doing so implicitly by going this "path of least resistance". The only thing that wil
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by JamesSwift 7mo ago
Again, generally in other systems the full semver pinning is more of a crutch to get some 'reproducibility' that nix gives you out of the box at a much higher level. So, in general, people just pin to the major version in nix. But
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by JamesSwift 7mo ago
Yes, for me it was 2 or 3 rounds of "its just not clicking" before it did and then there was no looking back. Ive heard the same anecdote from lots of others as well.
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by JamesSwift 7mo ago
Sibling comment does a good job of going into flakes, but to answer this > Do you install a package or a service A package is like the raw software installation. So eg the bash package is just a wrapper around building bash from source (
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by JamesSwift 7mo ago
Not only is it composable, but it is generalizable. So yes there is also chef, ansible, apt, uv, nodeenv, etc... or there is just nix. It is able to be the "one tool" to rule them all, often with better reproducibility guarantees.

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