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jorvi commented on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context   anthropic.com/news/1m-con... · Posted by u/adocomplete
GodelNumbering · 13 days ago
This is my experience too. Also, their propensity to jump into code without necessarily understanding the requirement is annoying to say the least. As the project complexity grows, you find yourself writing longer and longer instructions just to guardrail.

Another rather interesting thing is that they tend to gravitate towards sweep the errors under the rug kind of coding which is disastrous. e.g. "return X if we don't find the value so downstream doesn't crash". These are the kind of errors no human, even a beginner on their first day learning to code, wouldn't make and are extremely annoying to debug.

Tl;dr: LLMs' tendency to treat every single thing you give it as a demo homework project

jorvi · 13 days ago
Running LLM code with kernel privileges seems like courting disaster. I wouldn't dare do that unless I had a rock-solid grasp of the subsystem, and at that point, why not just write the code myself? LLM coding is on-average 20% slower.
jorvi commented on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context   anthropic.com/news/1m-con... · Posted by u/adocomplete
jeremy_k · 13 days ago
Well put. It really does come down to nuance. I find Claude is amazing at writing React / Typescript. I mostly let it do it's own thing and skim the results after. I have it write Storybook components so I can visually confirm things look how I want. If something isn't quite right I'll take a look and if I can spot the problem and fix it myself, I'll do that. If I can't quickly spot it, I'll write up a prompt describing what is going on and work through it with AI assistance.

Overall, React / Typescript I heavily let Claude write the code.

The flip side of this is my server code is Ruby on Rails. Claude helps me a lot less here because this is my primary coding background. I also have a certain way I like to write Ruby. In these scenarios I'm usually asking Claude to generate tests for code I've already written and supplying lots of examples in context so the coding style matches. If I ask Claude to write something novel in Ruby I tend to use it as more of a jumping off point. It generates, I read, I refactor to my liking. Claude is still very helpful, but I tend to do more of the code writing for Ruby.

Overall, helpful for Ruby, I still write most of the code.

These are the nuances I've come to find and what works best for my coding patterns. But to your point, if you tell someone "go use Claude" and they have have a preference in how to write Ruby and they see Claude generate a bunch of Ruby they don't like, they'll likely dismiss it as "This isn't useful. It took me longer to rewrite everything than just doing it myself". Which all goes to say, time using the tools whether its Cursor, Claude Code, etc (I use OpenCode) is the biggest key but figuring out how to get over the initial hump is probably the biggest hurdle.

jorvi · 13 days ago
It is not really a nuanced take when it compares 'unassisted' coding to using a bicycle and AI-assisted coding with a truck.

I put myself somewhere in the middle in terms of how great I think LLMs are for coding, but anyone that has worked with a colleague that loves LLM coding knows how horrid it is that the team has to comb through and doublecheck their commits.

In that sense it would be equally nuanced to call AI-assisted development something like "pipe bomb coding". You toss out your code into the branch, and your non-AI'd colleagues have to quickly check if your code is a harmless tube of code or yet another contraption that quickly needs defusing before it blows up in everyone's face.

Of course that is not nuanced either, but you get the point :)

jorvi commented on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file   al3rez.com/todo-txt-journ... · Posted by u/al3rez
eadmund · 13 days ago
> I am not going to completely change my editor and rebuild two decades of optimization just to use two Emacs tools.

Change your editor and rebuild two decades of optimisation in order to use Emacs, two Emacs tools, and also every other Emacs tool out there. Org Mode, TRAMP, Magit, gptel, eglot, flycheck, elfeed, ERC, Emms, EWW … there are a ton of reasons to use Emacs.

Or you can keep using less-capable systems and being annoyed when folks recommend that you upgrade.

jorvi · 13 days ago
> Or you can keep using less-capable systems and being annoyed when folks recommend that you upgrade.

Or I get to choose the most logical option yet: keep being annoyed when haughty people keep trying to push a downgrade on me as a supposed 'upgrade'.

jorvi commented on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation   theverge.com/news/757461/... · Posted by u/Handy-Man
djhn · 13 days ago
How come? Any TL;DR? Not a gamer, so I’m not up to date on consoles.
jorvi · 13 days ago
Nothing of the sort has been leaked or said by Microsoft.

However, their strategy seems to be going all-in on Gamepass. And if you subscribe to Gamepass, Microsoft does not care if you play on your Steam Deck, iPad or Xbox.

This is also why they mentioned they might open up the Xbox to other stores (Steam), and why they have been releasing first party titles onto the PS5[0].

If you couple that info with them axing their own handheld and instead licensing out the Xbox name to Asus with the ROG Ally Xbox, it isn't a huge leap to assume they'll just license out the Xbox name to whichever OEM feels like making a console. The Xbox One and Series X / S already run the Windows Core kernel which would make going more wide on the hardware support quite easy, and the current hardware is semi off-the-shelf stuff from AMD anyway.

[0] this led to some memery: https://images3.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED187/67a6bce7291...

jorvi commented on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file   al3rez.com/todo-txt-journ... · Posted by u/al3rez
reddit_clone · 13 days ago
Org-mode is the most appropriate answer. It is as simple or as sophisticated as we want it to be.

Obviously one needs to be an Emacs user first

jorvi · 13 days ago
> Obviously one needs to be an Emacs user first

This makes it so infuriating that the top comment on Todo systems is almost invariably "just org-mode lol". Same as remote editing "just TRAMP lol".

I am not going to completely change my editor and rebuild two decades of optimization just to use two Emacs tools.

On-topic: TickTick or Todoist with a slimmed-down "Getting Things Done" system works really well. Almost no learning curve, and you get to free up so much mental bandwidth vis a vis remembering things and prioritizing things. And you don't have to do hamfisted tricks to make a 'simple' .txt system work. Bliss.

jorvi commented on Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption   reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
ACow_Adonis · 25 days ago
Presumably for the same reason Google doesn't let you block or filter shit sites.

If you genuinely let user's preferences be taken into account, it's incredibly hard to make money from ads if the user's true preferences are not to be shown them.

The entire point of ads is to manipulate and change user preferences and behaviours.

So any preferences or customisation has to be minimal enough that their use can only partially implement user preferences. White listing is a step too far against the purpose of YouTube.

Thus Google will always be biased to not letting you implement full customisability and user control.

jorvi · 25 days ago
Well, that didn't or wouldn't have mattered when Google only had a top box and sidebox with sponsored sites.

Once they started masquerading ads as results, yeah any ability for user down or upranking became unworkable.

jorvi commented on Fast   catherinejue.com/fast... · Posted by u/gaplong
stevage · 25 days ago
Increased padding comes at the cost of information density.

I think low density UIs are more beginner friendly but power users want high density.

jorvi · 25 days ago
High information density, not high UI density.

Having 50 buttons and 10 tabs shoved in your face just makes for opaqueness, power user or not.

jorvi commented on Diet, not lack of exercise, drives obesity, a new study finds   npr.org/2025/07/24/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/andsoitis
djtango · a month ago
Intensity of the workout matters. When I go wakeboarding with my wife I build up a nice big appetite. When I go to muay thai I get pretty severe appetite suppression and sometimes have to force myself to eat.

The other thing is that if you track >>performance<< you naturally start caring about diet and lifestyle. So for people just trying their first 5k - I highly recommend tracking and setting time goals.

Nothing keeps me honest about my diet like performance

jorvi · a month ago
That's the point of the study though.

If you workout harder than your baseline, you will burn more calories than your baseline.

But if you do that workout often enough, for various reasons you will return to baseline calorie expenditure.

This means that if you want to lose weight consistently, working out is useless in that sense. You might see benefits for 1 month or 3 months or 6 months, but eventually your body adjusts.

Working out is great for a plethora of reasons. And this calorie budget rebalancing is one of them, since it means inflammation or auto-immune responses get downregulated.

Losing weight is not one of those benefits. Whereas it is often held up as such which leads to intense disappointment and relapse with overweight people, because they think "oh, if I just go for six intense two-hour jogs a week, I can keep eating sumptuously."

jorvi commented on Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience   myvolvoex90.com/... · Posted by u/prova_modena
Xenoamorphous · a month ago
Aren’t Japanese cars the gold standard of reliability? Or has something changed?
jorvi · a month ago
To be honest, it has never been about pure brand. Every brand has had clunkers and has had great models.

Having said that, Toyota is known for their reliability, and Volvo (+ Polestar) was / are known for their safety.

Just to emphasize the point: Nissan is doomed because generally no one wants their cars, but they have perhaps one of the greatest bang-for-buck EVs outside of Chinese brands: the Leaf 2.

jorvi commented on How to Firefox   kau.sh/blog/how-to-firefo... · Posted by u/Vinnl
normalaccess · a month ago
I'm dreading the day when this becomes required by the government...
jorvi · a month ago
With the ramping up of 18+ verification in Australia and now Europe (and South Korea and China already having such a programme for many years, including game time locks for young people), yeah.

It doesn't seem that big a leap to connect the dots from device attestation > web browser integrity > identity verification > verified web access

There is actually a relatively old game series of the 2000s called Bluesky Hacker Replay that has this as the core element of its worldbuilding. Governments and corporations became tired of the internet being overrun with spam, viruses, porn and cyberterrorism and decide to create an internet 2.0, tightly controlled by corporate interests. Hackers persist on the old 1.0 internet called the SwitchNet.

And really, when you think about it.. if you composed an internet solely from the big name social media, entertainment, work, food, news and knowledge services, running atop Cloudflare who verifies everyone via government ID, how many would really complain? 99% of their internet time is already spent inside that bubble.

u/jorvi

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