d4rkp4ttern (u/d4rkp4ttern)

d4rkp4ttern commented on Writing with LLM is not a shame reflexions.florianernotte... · Posted by u/flornt

It's really frustrating to have to adjust my writing style to seem more human despite being entirely human. Many of us have been using em dashes for a long time, who else do people think the LLMs learnt it from?

d4rkp4ttern · 3 days ago

Exactly. I think the whole emdash thing is a nonsense meme propagated by Xfluencers or LinkFluencers.

d4rkp4ttern commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros

techwiz137 · 4 days ago

For code generation, nothing so far beats Opus. More likely than not it generated working code and fixed bugs that Gemini 2.5 pro couldn't solve or even Gemini Code Assist. Gemini Code Assist is better than 2.5 pro, but has way more limits per prompt and often truncates output.

d4rkp4ttern · 3 days ago

Don’t sleep on Codex-CLI + gpt-5. While the Codex-CLI scaffolding is far behind CC, the gpt-5 code seems solid from what I’ve seen (you can adjust thinking level using /model).

d4rkp4ttern commented on DeepSeek-v3.1 api-docs.deepseek.com/new... · Posted by u/wertyk

d4rkp4ttern · 5 days ago

It’s a very smart move for DeepSeek to put out an Anthropic-compatible API, similar to Kimi-k2, GLM4.5 (Puzzled as to why Qwen didn’t do this). You can set up a simple function in your .zhsrc to run Claude-Code with these models:

https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools/tree/main?ta...

d4rkp4ttern commented on Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust github.com/epicenter-so/e... · Posted by u/braden-w

michael-sumner · 9 days ago

How does this compare to VoiceInk which is also open-source and been there much longer and supports all the features that you have? https://github.com/Beingpax/VoiceInk

d4rkp4ttern · 8 days ago

VoiceInk (one time payment) and WisprFlow (subscription) are currently my fav dictation apps. I just looked at Whispering and have to say VoiceInk is far superior to Whispering in terms of Ux, and clarity of settings, so I think VoiceInk deserves at least as much attention. There are several things that make a huge difference things that make a huge difference in dictation apps, besides the obvious speed and accuracy:

- allow flexible recording toggle shortcuts - show a visual icon with waves etc showing recording - how the clipboard is handled during recording (does it copy to clipboard? does it clear it after text output?)

VoiceInk is nearly there in terms of good behavior on these dimensions, and I hope to ditch my Wispr Flow sub soon.

d4rkp4ttern commented on Customizing tmux evgeniipendragon.com/post... · Posted by u/EPendragon

d4rkp4ttern · 22 days ago

I recently dove into Tmux just to be able to combine it with Claude-Code(CC): allowing CC to watch and interact with a CLI application in a separate pane. A nice feature of tmux is that it is scriptable, I.e allows programmatically sending keystrokes to a specific pane. So I built this little tool "tmux-cli" that creates a convenient, safe wrapper (that prevents self-killing, and has built-in delays for Enter key, etc) around tmux that lets CC spawn another pane, launch a CLI script and actually interact with it. This gives CC some interesting abilities: interact with CLI scripts expecting user input; spawn another instance of CC and give it a task (like sub-agents but fully-visible); launch a CLI script with a debugger like Pdb and stepping thru it; launch UI servers and use Puppeteer MCP to check the browser.

It's easy to install via uv:

    uv tool install claude-code-tools

https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools

d4rkp4ttern commented on Customizing tmux evgeniipendragon.com/post... · Posted by u/EPendragon

d4rkp4ttern · 22 days ago

Speaking of prefix-key binding -- I find all control-key combos painful. I use the UHK split keyboard, and set mod-space as the prefix key which is very ergonomic.

d4rkp4ttern commented on 6 weeks of Claude Code blog.puzzmo.com/posts/202... · Posted by u/mike1o1

iwontberude · 25 days ago

I stopped writing as much code because of RSI and carpal tunnel but Claude has given me a way to program without pain (perhaps an order of magnitude less pain). As much as I was wanting to reject it, I literally am going to need it to continue my career.

d4rkp4ttern · 24 days ago

I find it very effective to use a good STT/dictation app since giving sufficient detailed context to CC is very important, and it becomes tedious to type all of that.

I’ve experimented with several dictation apps, including super whisper, etc., and I’ve settled on Wispr Flow. I’m very picky about having good keyboard shortcuts for hands-free dictation mode (meaning having a good keyboard shortcut to toggle recording on and off), and of course, accuracy and speed. Wispr Flow seems to fit all my needs for now but I’d love to switch to a local-only app and ditch the $15/mo sub :)

d4rkp4ttern commented on 6 weeks of Claude Code blog.puzzmo.com/posts/202... · Posted by u/mike1o1

d4rkp4ttern · 24 days ago

Agreed. CC lets you attempt things that you wouldn’t have dared to try. For example here are two things I recently added to the Langroid LLM agent framework with CC help:

Nice collapsible HTML logs of agent conversations (inspired by Mario Zechner’s Claude-trace), which took a couple hours of iterations, involving HTML/js/CSS:

https://langroid.github.io/langroid/notes/html-logger/

A migration from Pydantic-v1 to v2, which took around 7 hours of iterations (would have taken a week at least if I even tried it manually and still probably wouldn’t have been as bullet-proof):

https://github.com/langroid/langroid/releases/tag/0.59.0-b3

d4rkp4ttern commented on 6 weeks of Claude Code blog.puzzmo.com/posts/202... · Posted by u/mike1o1

arrowsmith · 25 days ago

The real power of Claude Code comes when you realise it can do far more than just write code.

It can, in fact, control your entire computer. If there's a CLI tool, Claude can run it. If there's not a CLI tool... ask Claude anyway, you might be surprised.

E.g. I've used Claude to crop and resize images, rip MP3s from YouTube videos, trim silence from audio files, the list goes on. It saves me incredible amounts of time.

I don't remember life before it. Never going back.

d4rkp4ttern · 24 days ago

Beyond just running CLI commands, you can have CC interact with those, e.g I built this little tool that gives CC a Tmux-cli command (a convenience wrapper around Tmux) that lets it interact with CLI applications and monitor them etc:

https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools

For example this lets CC spawn another CC instance and give it a task (way better than the built-in spawn-and-let-go black box), or interact with CLI scripts that expect user input, or use debuggers like Pdb for token-efficient debugging and code-understanding, etc.

d4rkp4ttern commented on Vibe coding is the fast fashion industry of software engineering pdelboca.me/writings/2025... · Posted by u/pdelboca

jasonm23 · a month ago

I have to add that working effectively with LLMs is a skill too, mostly in terms of prompting and system level prompts to skip _most_ of the fabrication and nonsense.

They have to be explicitly told often to keep things brief, non-fiction and non-sycophantic.

Then you still need to curate responses, but less so.

d4rkp4ttern · 25 days ago

Agreed, and being productive with Claude Code and similar cli tools requires being deliberate about creating docs for background info, spec, and implementation plan, and final implementation notes.