CC is so damn good I want to use its agent loop in my agent loop. I'm planning to build a browser agent for some specialized tasks and I'm literally just bundling a docker image with Claude Code and a headless browser and the Playwright MCP server.
Readit Newsmyflash13 commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros
myflash13 commented on 450× Faster Joins with Index Condition Pushdown readyset.io/blog/optimizi... · Posted by u/marceloaltmann
Shouldn't the query planner catch things like this? Sounds like a performance bug if this happens in Postgres.
myflash13 commented on The new geography of stolen goods economist.com/interactive... · Posted by u/tlb
130,000 car thefts a year. That's over £1bn loss, probably closer to £4bn. In this context the total police budget of around £20bn seems remarkably low!
You'd have thought it'd be worth insurance companies paying people to track down the thieves!
Why bother tracking down thieves when you can just keep jacking up premiums? It's not like customers have a choice.
myflash13 commented on The new geography of stolen goods economist.com/interactive... · Posted by u/tlb
Meanwhile police in Canada won't do anything about your stolen car even when you show them it's right there in a rail/shipping yard in your city.
- https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/stolen-truck-authorit...
- https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto-man-finds-stolen-truc...
> Andrew texted the officer a screenshot showing the precise location of the AirTag. As the officer approached the rail yard, Andrew's second AirTag started pinging at the same location, suggesting the Bluetooth signal emitted by the device had connected to the officer's smartphone. (The tracker relies on nearby GPS-enabled devices to determine its location.)
myflash13 commented on Warp sends a terminal session to LLM without user consent · Posted by u/ykurtov
So does every AI agent such as Claude Code. I’ll take the privacy risk for the 10x increase in productivity. To help mitigate the security risk I will be encrypting environment files and rotating secrets far more often.
myflash13 commented on Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code claudiacode.com/... · Posted by u/zerealshadowban
For folks interested in options for working with teams of agents like Claude Code in parallel, we're building Magnet
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Magnet - The AI workspace for agentic coding
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You can think of Magnet as your workspace for collaborating with your human & AI agent team mates. We let you quickly spin up Claude Code sandboxes for every issue, and we're also thinking about how AI can be more of a thought partner in building high-quality software.
We're thinking about this problem space more broadly than just trying to be a GUI for Claude Code (though that's already a great starting point).
These are a few of the themes we think about:
- How can we use AI to help you think critically about the features you're prioritizing and what to build next?
- How can we always assemble and provide exactly the right context for every issue you're working on?
- What are the best patterns for collaborating with your human & AI teammates, to ship the highest quality code?
- How can you best specify exactly what you want, and verify that it's what you hoped for?
Would love for y'all to try it, and I'll post a video of me building a product with Magnet a little later here - the tool's getting really fun to use!
We're also very open to feedback and try to incorporate learnings quickly! I spent a large part of this weekend using Magnet to fix most of the issues someone we onboarded Friday brought up
Love it but I want an iOS companion app over Tailscale/LAN. Omnara without a central server.
myflash13 commented on ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes bmj.com/content/390/bmj-2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
Canadian here.
ADHD diagnosis is one of the few non-socialized parts of our medical system. Because of the abuse potential they charge a fairly steep fee (cad $3k+, with a $2k+ autism assessment addon) to even attempt diagnosis (after screening by your GP — referral required).
The intake paperwork alone was perhaps 100 pages of online questionnaires that lead to interviews where they schedule counselling and evaluation sessions with you.
It took me almost a year to complete because 100 pages of “often always sometimes never” multiple choice questions (with attention checking red herrings) proved to be an almost insurmountable barrier for me.
I ended up completely surrendering to their scheduling requests: “just book it and tell me when it is. I will adjust my schedule around you. Agreeing on mutually free times with six providers is a functional impossibility. Just book it. Now. Go. Lock it in.”
It took a year to get through the maze and now they’ve booked me ASAP: three months out.
If I have an opportunity to give feedback it will be that they badly need people on their team with lived experience. It makes sense that a system designed by people who were able to complete multiple years of medical education and training is effectively blind to conscientiousness and executive function deficits.
Then again, perhaps the maze is another preventative measure: if you are able to speedrun it, perhaps you shouldn’t get medical meth.
Try Frida. Online clinic that can get you from diagnosis to prescription in a few weeks.
myflash13 commented on Why LLMs can't really build software zed.dev/blog/why-llms-can... · Posted by u/srid
This was Peter Naur’s observation in his 1985 paper Programming as Theory Building. One of the best papers I’ve ever read. Programming IS mostly building castles in the air of your head, not the code on the screen.
If you do the thinking and let the LLM do the typing it works incredibly well. I can write code 10x faster with AI, but I’m maintaining the mental model in my head, the “theory” as Naur calls it. But if you try to outsource the theory to the LLM (build me an app that does X) you’re bound to fail in horrible ways. That’s why Claude Code is amazing but Replit can only do basic toy apps.
Apple does not only gain by disintermediating Visa. Apple takes a cut on every purchase through Apple Pay (.15%), which is more than Visa's cut (.14%). Apple probably hasn't made a payment network because it would have to either create a settlement network (which is hard even for Apple, and Visa/Mastercard as settlement networks get less of a cut than Apple does without bothering), or Apple would have to buy a bank and become an issuer. Why don't they buy a bank? Maybe Visa / Mastercard scared them away from it. Maybe they don't want to deal with underwriting and return risks and all of that. It does deviate quite far from their core business.
Thanks for the clarification I stand corrected. Still pretty shady what’s done to crypto founders though, but they’re in a shady business already. Blocking Brazils Pix from going global is more egregious.
I appreciate you looking out for my well being, but really there was nothing shady here. We weren’t forced out by a Visa mob or something like that. I actually wish that were the case, because that would mean that we were growing! We just aren’t well connected enough to convince established merchants to switch over to a startup’s payment network, especially since the value to them is dubious.
But it’s not like there was some shadowy Visa conspiracy. We received pre seed investment from institutional investors and built a pay-by-bank network entirely fine without anybody stopping us
Thanks for the clarification in your particular case. No offence, but you were then probably not big enough to matter. There is plenty evidence of shadowy forces shutting down payment systems, however, just look at Marc Andreessen's public statements about crypto founders he invested in getting debanked.