collinvandyck76 (u/collinvandyck76)

collinvandyck76 commented on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context anthropic.com/news/1m-con... · Posted by u/adocomplete

9wzYQbTYsAIc · a month ago

I’ve been having decent luck telling it to keep track of itself in a .plan file, not foolproof, of course, but it has some ability to “preserve context” between contexts.

Right now I’m experimenting with using separate .plan files for tracking key instructions across domains like architecture and feature decisions.

collinvandyck76 · a month ago

Yeah, this. Each project I work on has it's own markdown file named for the ticket or the project. Committed on the branch, and I have claude rewrite it with the "current understanding" periodically. After compacting, I have it re-read the MD file and we get started again. Quite nice.

collinvandyck76 commented on Claude Opus 4.1 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

ryandrake · a month ago

Am I the only one super confused about how to even get started trying out this stuff? Just so I wouldn't be "that critic who doesn't try the stuff he criticizes," I tried GitHub Copilot and was kind of not very impressed. Someone on HN told me Copilot sucks, use Claude. But I have no idea what the right way to do it is because there are so many paths to choose.

Let's see: we have Claude Code vs. Claude the API vs. Claude the website, and they're totally different from each other? One is command line, one integrates into your IDE (which IDE?) and one is just browser based, I guess. Then you have the different pricing plans, Free, Pro, and Max? But then there's also Claude Team and Claude Enterprise? These are monthly plans that only work with Claude the Website, but Claude Code is per-request? Or is it Claude API that's per-request? I have no idea. Then you have the models: Claude Opus and Claude Sonnet, with various version numbers for each?? Then there's Cline and Cursor and GOOD GRIEF! I just want to putz around with something in VSCode for a few hours!

collinvandyck76 · a month ago

Claude Code is the superior interface in my opinion. Definitely start there.

collinvandyck76 commented on Detekt – A static code analyzer for Kotlin detekt.dev/... · Posted by u/TheWiggles

synesso · 2 months ago

I've been using detekt for years. Why is this suddenly the top article on HN?

collinvandyck76 · 2 months ago

There's a ton of reasons why that may happen. One of which being that someone may not have known about it and wanted to share.

collinvandyck76 commented on 1000 Days Without Drinking andrew-quinn.me/1000-days... · Posted by u/hiAndrewQuinn

more_corn · 2 months ago

I quit five years ago. I lost track of the day count. I wish I’d quit in college or never started. I’m pretty sure every catastrophic hangover caused permanent reductions in my recall ability. I’d probably be a lot smarter if I hadn’t done myself all that damage.

collinvandyck76 · 2 months ago

My story is similar to yours, and I feel what you're saying. I would just be a different person today if I had avoided it altogether. Internally I have resolved to just keep looking forward, and only very occasionally, backwards.

collinvandyck76 commented on Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights jameshard.ing/pilot... · Posted by u/jamesharding

collinvandyck76 · 3 months ago

This is inspiring me to collect more of my own data -- great job!

collinvandyck76 commented on Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole port.ac.uk/news-events-an... · Posted by u/zaik

collinvandyck76 · 3 months ago

The bounce to me has always seemed more intuitive than the bang, but man, when it comes to the quantum universe I've learned to just check intuition at the door.

collinvandyck76 commented on Ask HN: Is there any demand for Personal CV/Resume website? · Posted by u/usercvapp

usercvapp · 3 months ago

That is very helpful feedback. I will optimise that in a couple of hours.

> It sounds kind of anachronistic,

Hmmmm interesting. I thought this was the perfect time for this, but you may be right based on the attention I have received for the product or maybe it's because of my noisy landing page.

collinvandyck76 · 3 months ago

TBH I mostly use LinkedIn for this kind of thing. I do have a resume for the odd occasion I need it but LI mostly suffices. It's hard for me to know whether it would gain traction outside of my demographic, and so I can only speak narrowly.

collinvandyck76 commented on Ask HN: Is there any demand for Personal CV/Resume website? · Posted by u/usercvapp

collinvandyck76 · 3 months ago

It sounds kind of anachronistic, although I think there might be some markets for that outside of this bubble. If you're looking for critique, I think your landing page is extremely noisy for such a simple idea. You'd probably get better traction with a more focused design.

collinvandyck76 commented on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts fly.io/blog/youre-all-nut... · Posted by u/tabletcorry

tkgally · 3 months ago

When you’re done talking, you tap anywhere on the screen to indicate that you’re finished talking, and Claude replies a second or two later. If you are silent for several seconds, it goes ahead and replies without waiting for you to tap. When Claude is talking you can tap on the screen to interrupt; that is actually quite useful, as it can be a bit long-winded.

It’s not quite as natural a back-and-forth as with ChatGPT’s or Gemini’s voice mode on mobile, but maybe that’s for the best.

I tried a test later in which I gave it a research paper—Sakana AI’s latest—and asked it to explain it to me. When it used a term I didn’t understand, I just tapped on the screen and asked for an explanation. That worked quite well.

collinvandyck76 · 3 months ago

I finally got access to it -- much better experience than I had expected. I really like being able to choose the voice/cadence. I wasn't able to get it to auto-send after a few seconds, but that might have been due to being in a noisy environment.

collinvandyck76 commented on A non-trivial PR (+1641/-1125) written ~80% with AI agents twitter.com/mitchellh/sta... · Posted by u/tosh

collinvandyck76 · 3 months ago

I honestly used to be a skeptic on AI, at least for how it was being marketed, until agentic workflows became available. I've been in this biz for about 25 years now and have seen a lot of fads come and go, but framed correctly, this one has legs. If you're using it as a foundational part of your development budget I have bad news for you. But if you're using it as a handy assistant that you can guide to do things in minutes that would take you hours it's a force multiplier.

One interesting thought I had about it after I used Claude Code to generate a lot of documentation for a new codebase I was being bootstrapped into was that it's kind of a hedge against the loss of mental acuity that is natural with aging. I, and friends of mine, have admitted that you kind of get less quick/sharp with age. The tradeoff here is wisdom. But with a tool like this I'm able to move much more quickly than before.