rahimnathwani (u/rahimnathwani)

rahimnathwani commented on Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions code.claude.com/docs/en/a... · Posted by u/davidbarker

RollAHardSix · 2 days ago

Trying to make a media player, media server, all by using ffmpeg and a pre-built media streaming engine as it's core. Python and SQLite. About a week's worth of effort every time until it begins to go too far off the rails to be reliable to continue to develop with. It never did get the ffmpeg commands right, I had to go back to crafting those by hand, it never did get the streaming engine to play in the browser's video player in the supported hls and dash formats. Asked it to build a file and file metadata caching layer and then had to continue to re-prompt it to poll the caching layers before trying to get values from the database. Never even got to the library, metadata, or library image functionality. Had to ask it to create the rbac permissions model I wanted despite it being very junior-level common sense (super-admin, user-admin, metadata admin, image admin).

Not exactly world-class software.

rahimnathwani · 2 days ago

I'm curious which harness and which model(s) you've been using.

And whether you have a decent PRD or spec. Are you trying to prompt the harness with one bit at a time, or did you give it a complete spec and ask it to analyze it and break it down into individual issues with dependencies (e.g. using beads and beads_viewer)?

I'm not looking for reasons to criticize your approach or question your experience, but your answers may point to opportunities for you to get more out of these tools.

If you're using Claude Code and you have a friend who has had more success with these tools, consider exporting your transcripts and letting them have a look: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/25/claude-code-transcript...

rahimnathwani commented on Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions code.claude.com/docs/en/a... · Posted by u/davidbarker

freeone3000 · 2 days ago

It’s a simple compiler optimization over bayesian statistics. It’s masters-level stuff at best, given that I’m on it instead of some expert. The codebase is mixed python and rust, neither of which are uncommon.

The issues I ran into are primarily “tail-chasing” ones - it gets into some attractor that doesn’t suit the test case and fails to find its way out. I re-benchmark every few months, but so far none of the frontier models have been able to make changes that have solved the issue without bloating the codebase and failing the perf tests.

It’s fine for some boilerplate dedup or spinning up some web api or whatever, but it’s still not suitable for serious work.

rahimnathwani · 2 days ago

Would you expect a junior engineer to perform better than this?

rahimnathwani commented on Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions code.claude.com/docs/en/a... · Posted by u/davidbarker

imiric · 2 days ago

The possibility that the performance of these tools still isn't at the level some people need it to be is not an option?

It's insulting that criticism is often met with superficial excuses and insinuation that the user lacks the required skills.

rahimnathwani · 2 days ago

That possibility is covered by A and B.

GP said 'falls short every time I’ve tried'. Note the word 'every'.

rahimnathwani commented on Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions code.claude.com/docs/en/a... · Posted by u/davidbarker

freeone3000 · 2 days ago

If it could do anything that a junior dev could, that’d be a valid point of comparison. But it continually, wildly performs slower and falls short every time I’ve tried.

rahimnathwani · 2 days ago

  But it continually, wildly performs slower and falls short every time I’ve tried.

If it falls short every time you've tried, it's likely that one or more of these is true:

A. You're working on some really deep thing that only world-class expects can do, like optimizing graphics engines for AAA games.

B. You're using a language that isn't in the top ~10 most popular in AI models' training sets.

C. You have an opportunity to improve your ability to use the tools effectively.

How many hours have you spent using Claude Code?

rahimnathwani commented on Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions code.claude.com/docs/en/a... · Posted by u/davidbarker

bluerooibos · 2 days ago

This is great and all but, who can actually afford to let these agents run on tasks all day long? Is anyone here actually using this or are these rollouts aimed at large companies?

I'm burning through so many tokens on Cursor that I've had to upgrade to Ultra recently - and i'm convinced they're tweaking the burn rate behind the scenes - usage allowance doesn't seem proportional.

Thank god the open source/local LLM world isn't far behind.

rahimnathwani · 2 days ago

Many many companies can afford to hire a junior engineer for $150k/year (plus employer payroll taxes, employee benefits etc.).

Are you spending more than $150k per year on AI?

(Also, you're talking about the cost of your Cursor subscription, when the article is about Claude Code. Maybe try Claude Max instead?)

rahimnathwani commented on Professors Are Being Watched: 'We've Never Seen This Much Surveillance' nytimes.com/2026/02/04/us... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

theamk · 3 days ago

I think political interference is a horrible thing for university education.

But that particular part - "laws requiring professors to publicly post their course outlines in searchable databases" - is great, and should be done everywhere. There are actually universities who _claim_ to have great math (or physics or other science) program, but actually just teach it at "advanced high school" level. So public syllabi - something that was very common in 2000's but going out of style today - are critical for anyone choosing the university to go to.

rahimnathwani · 3 days ago

"I think political interference is a horrible thing for university education."

The University of California is one of the largest universities in the US. It is governed by a Board of Regents. The majority of those Regents are appointed by the state Governor.

Do you consider that 'political interference'?

One of the things those Regents did was vote to end the use of SAT scores in admissions. They did during a meeting in which several spoke of the value of the SAT. And they acted against the recommendations of the Academic Council's Standardized Testing Task Force.

You might think that the staggered and long terms protect against political interference/influence. But if that's the case, how do we explain how so many votes are unanimous when, on the day of the vote, some regents express opposing views?

rahimnathwani commented on Ian's Shoelace Site fieggen.com/shoelace/... · Posted by u/righthand

oldandboring · 6 days ago

I also learned it back in 2004 and it was one of the single most useful skills I have ever acquired. My shoes never come untied anymore. Coaching baseball, when a kid's shoe comes untied, I re-tie it for them with the Ian knot. Life changing skill.

rahimnathwani · 5 days ago

The Ian knot is just as likely to come untied the knot formed by the regular method or the bunny ear method. Because all result in the same knot.

If you noticed a change after you switched knots, you might have been inadvertently creating granny knots:

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm

rahimnathwani commented on UK government launches fuel forecourt price API gov.uk/guidance/access-th... · Posted by u/Technolithic

rahimnathwani · 6 days ago

The CSV file has only 650 rows.