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tqwhite commented on Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere github.com/omnara-ai/omna... · Posted by u/kmansm27

tqwhite · 13 days ago

When you let Claude run free over changes big enough to have this thing be meaningful, are you really getting good enough code?

When I just set Claude loose for long periods, I get incomprehensible, brittle code.

I don't do maintenance so maybe that's the difference but I have not had good results from big, unsupervised changes.

tqwhite commented on Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death energyvanguard.com/blog/t... · Posted by u/almuhalil

siliconc0w · a month ago

You can also try a simple fan blowing over the sitting areas, mosquitos (and other bugs) have difficulty flying in the breeze. I sometimes bring a small fan camping since the breeze is nice and I hate applying deet.

tqwhite · a month ago

I love DEET. It is absolutely the perfect way to avoid mosquitos and ticks.

At home though, I use Thermacell. It's the only thing I have ever used that makes a measurable difference. Of course, you need to have one ever four or five feet unless the air is perfectly still but that's a small price.

tqwhite commented on Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death energyvanguard.com/blog/t... · Posted by u/almuhalil

tqwhite · a month ago

Every time I have read science guys about things that you can do to kill mosquitos there is an analogy to putting a drain in the ocean. You can kill mosquitos at a fantastic rate but, unless you are also killing them in all your neighbor's yards for a mile around, they are just going to keep coming as fast as they die.

tqwhite commented on Claude Code weekly rate limits · Posted by u/thebestmoshe

CodeBrad · a month ago

I think Claude Code also already has the option to provide an API key directly for usage based pricing.

I'm a fan of having both a subscription and a usage based plan available. The subscription is effectively a built in spending limit. If I regularly hit it and need more value, I can switch to an API key for unlimited usage.

The downside is you are potentially paying for something you don't use, but that is the same for all subscription services.

tqwhite · a month ago

I use API but think about getting the $100/mo plan and using API for overflow if it occurs.

But I have slow months and think that might not actually be the winner. Basically I'm going to wait and see before I sign up for auto-pay.

tqwhite commented on Claude Code weekly rate limits · Posted by u/thebestmoshe

KronisLV · a month ago

I personally take an issue with them expecting that your usage would be more or less consistent throughout the month. Instead, I might have low usage throughout most of the month and then an 11 hour binge a few days, which in most cases would involve running into rate limits (either that, or just token limitations for inputs).

That's why using the API directly and paying for tokens anything past that basic usage feels a bit nicer, since it's my wallet that becomes the limitation then, not some arbitrary limits dreamed up by others. Plus with something like OpenRouter, you can also avoid subscription tier related limits like https://docs.anthropic.com/en/api/rate-limits#rate-limits

Though for now Gemini 2.5 Pro seems to work a bit better than Claude for my code writing/refactoring/explanation/exploration needs. Curious what other cost competitive options are out there.

tqwhite · a month ago

This is my strategy as well. I definitely have surges of usage.

Except for one catastrophic binge where I accidentally left Opus on for a whole binge (KILL ME!!!), I use around $150/month. I like having the spigot off when I am not working.

Would the $100/month plan plus API for overflow come out ahead? Certainly on some months. Over the year, I don't know. I'll let you know.

tqwhite commented on Claude Code weekly rate limits · Posted by u/thebestmoshe

tialaramex · a month ago

Right, that's crucial to understand. In 1985 you could make a direct dial from England to the US but it was eye wateringly expensive. £2 per minute. An hour's call to your mum? That's over £100.

But the cost to Bell and British Telecom was not £2 per minute, or £1 per minute, or even 1p per minute, it was nothing at all. Their costs were not for the call, but for the infrastructure over which the call was delivered, a transatlantic cable. If there was one call for ten minutes, once a week essentially at random, that cable must still exist, but if there are 10 thousand call minutes per week, a thousand times more, it's the same cable.

So the big telcos all just picked a number and understood it as basically free income. If everybody agrees this call costs £2 then it costs £2 right, and those 10 thousand call minutes generate a Million pound annual income.

It's maybe easier for Americans to understand if you tell them that outside the US the local telephone calls cost money back then. Why were your calls free? Because why not, the decision to charge for the calls is arbitrary, the calls don't actually cost anything, but you will need to charge somehow to recoup the maintenance costs. In the US the long distance calls were more expensive to make up for this for a time, today it's all absorbed in a monthly access fee on most plans.

tqwhite · a month ago

There was some capital expenditure that had to be paid for.

In the US, ATT was just barely deregulated by then so the prices were not just 'out of thin air'.

tqwhite commented on Claude Code weekly rate limits · Posted by u/thebestmoshe

Wowfunhappy · a month ago

Yes, but that's so expensive I will never do it!

tqwhite · a month ago

With one months exception, I've never gotten past $150 with API. I plan to do the $100 plan and use the API for overflow. I think I will come out ahead.

tqwhite commented on Claude Code weekly rate limits · Posted by u/thebestmoshe

Wowfunhappy · a month ago

I'm probably not going to hit the weekly limit, but it makes me nervous that the limit is weekly as opposed to every 36 hours or something. If I do hit the limit, that's it for the entire week—a long time to be without a tool I've grown accustomed to!

I feel like someone is going to reply that I'm too reliant on Claude or something. Maybe that's true, but I'd feel the same about the prospect of loosing ripgrep for a week, or whatever. Loosing it for a couple of days is more palatable.

Also, I find it notable they said this will affect "less than 5% of users". I'm used to these types of announcements claiming they'll affect less than 1%. Anthropic is saying that one out of every 20 users will hit the new limit.

tqwhite · a month ago

Don't you also have an API subscription to provide overflow capacity?

tqwhite commented on Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators github.com/qemu/qemu/comm... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

tqwhite · 2 months ago

I don't blame them for worrying about it. The policy should not be to forbid it but make sure you don't leave artifacts because I guarantee, people are going to use a bot to write their code. Hell, in six months, I doubt you will be able to get a code editor that doesn't use AI for code completion at least.

Also, AI coded programs will be copyrightable just like the old days. You think the big corps are going to both not use bot coding and give up ownership of their code? Fat chance.

Remember the Micky Mouse copyright extension? If the courts aren't sensible, we will have one of those the next day.

The old days ended very abruptly this time.

tqwhite commented on OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/minimaxir

tqwhite · 3 months ago

This is the worst thread I have ever seen on Hacker News. Fatuous, self-important, superficial, judgmental. Do better people.