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ttcbj commented on Show HN: Project management system for Claude Code github.com/automazeio/ccp... · Posted by u/aroussi

fzeindl · 10 days ago

This. I‘m always amazed on how LLMs are praised for being able to churn out the large amount of code we apparently all need.

I keep wondering why. All projects I ever saw need lines of code, nuts and bolts removed instead of added. My best libraries consist of a couple of thousand lines.

ttcbj · 10 days ago

I think Steve Ballmer's quote was something like "Measure a software project's progress by increase in lines-of-code is like measuring an airplane project's progress by increase in weight."

ttcbj commented on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad daringfireball.net/2025/0... · Posted by u/dotcoma

keiferski · 2 months ago

Apple without Ive and Jobs increasingly has a taste problem. Everything from their ads to things like this are just in really poor taste, and aren’t something that they would have done 15 years ago because they would have thought it was beneath their brand.

I like Apple, so I’m really hoping they bring on someone to solve this. Otherwise they’re on track to be the same as every other tasteless tech company.

More on taste and Apple: https://www.readtrung.com/p/steve-jobs-rick-rubin-and-taste

ttcbj · 2 months ago

I have been reading the book “apple in China” after hearing the author on a podcast. It has fundamentally altered my view of apple as a company. From a consumer perspective, I thought it was a an amazing company. But looking behind the scenes, I came to understand how morally compromised it has been for a very long time. In retrospect, I feel complicit in things I didn’t understand I was part of.

ttcbj commented on Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?) anthropic.com/research/pr... · Posted by u/gk1

deepdarkforest · 2 months ago

What irks me about anthropic blog posts, is that they are vague about details that are important to be able to (publicly) draw any conclusions they want to fit their narrative.

For example, I do not see the full system prompt anywhere, only an excerpt. But most importantly, they try to draw conclusions about the hallucinations in a weird vague way, but not once do they post an example of the notetaking/memory tool state, which obviously would be the only source of the spiralling other than the SP. And then they talk about the need of better tools etc. No, it's all about context. The whole experiment is fun, but terribly ran and analyzed. Of course they know this, but it's cooler to treat claudius or whatever as a cute human, to push the narrative of getting closer to AGI etc. Saying additional scaffolding is needed a bit is a massive understatement. Context is the whole game. That's like if a robotics company says "well, our experiment with a robot picking a tennis ball of the ground went very wrong and the ball is now radioactive, but with a bit of additional training and scaffolding, we expect it to compete in Wimbledon by mid 2026"

Similar to their "claude 4 opus blackmailing" post, they intentionally hid a bit the full system prompt, which had clear instructions to bypass any ethical guidelines etc and do whatever it can to win. Of course then the model, given the information immediately afterwards would try to blackmail. You literally told it so. The goal of this would to go to congress [1] and demand more regulations, specifically mentioning this blackmail "result". Same stuff that Sam is trying to pull, which would benefit the closed sourced leaders ofc and so on.

[1]https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ll3m7j/anthro...

ttcbj · 2 months ago

I read your comment before reading the article, and I disagree. Maybe it is because I am less actively involved in AI development, but I thought it was an interesting experiment, and documented with an appropriate level of detail.

The section on the identity crisis was particularly interesting.

Mainly, it left me with more questions. In particular, I would have been really interested to experiment with having a trusted human in the loop to provide feedback and monitor progress. Realistically, it seems like these systems would be grown that way.

I once read an article about a guy who had purchased a subway franchise, and one of the big conclusions was that running a subway franchise was _boring_. So, I could see someone being eager to delegate the boring tasks of daily business management to an AI at a simple business.

ttcbj commented on Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API? · Posted by u/meander_water

ttcbj · 3 months ago

Wasn’t there a post on HN about someone who made a lot of money with an API that told you the geolocation of an IP address quickly? Maybe 5 years ago?

ttcbj commented on Launch HN: WorkDone (YC X25) – AI Audit of Medical Charts · Posted by u/digitaltzar

digitaltzar · 3 months ago

Thank you!

ttcbj · 3 months ago

Final follow up. My wife forwarded your info/website/brief summary to the guy. I don't know if he will follow up, but hopefully so. Best wishes!

ttcbj commented on Launch HN: WorkDone (YC X25) – AI Audit of Medical Charts · Posted by u/digitaltzar

digitaltzar · 3 months ago

Thank you for the insights, I believe the challenge they have is related to CPT coding - not mistakes or errors, but the completeness' of clinical picture fro m the billing/insurance standpoint. A lot of this coding knowledge is tribal and resides in the head of clinicians. We can help, would greatly appreciate an introduction to your wife's colleagues at dmitry.k@wrkdn.com (Dmitry Karpov), thank you!

ttcbj · 3 months ago

Thanks, I will ask my wife to ask the guy who gives the talks (their internal expert in billing matters) if he is interested and send him your email. Personally, I really think your solution has potential to help them, in the sense that they don’t have a sustainable/automated process for training clinicians to write notes in the correct way, or to detect issues when the clinicians don’t know or remember to do so. I know that meeting wasn’t perfectly attended, but even if it had been, they add like 8 new people at the beginning of July, and those people won’t attend the billing meeting until the next one happens in a year. The push for more revenue has been within the last month or so (I think maybe due to Trump related cuts to grant funding and concerns about Medicaid), so it’s an issue that is currently on the mind of leadership.

ttcbj commented on Launch HN: WorkDone (YC X25) – AI Audit of Medical Charts · Posted by u/digitaltzar

the__alchemist · 3 months ago

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ttcbj · 3 months ago

Just FYI, it’s definitely not fraud, it is just that clinicians don’t know when they need to specifically document things that they are actually doing. They do things, don’t specifically mention them in the note because they don’t know it matter, then the billing is lower than it should be. But it’s definitely not fraud.

ttcbj commented on Launch HN: WorkDone (YC X25) – AI Audit of Medical Charts · Posted by u/digitaltzar

ttcbj · 3 months ago

My wife is a doctor at a major university. They are under pressure right now and are looking to increase revenue. Changing the way they document cases can substantially alter the billing outcome. Note that these are not errors, they are omissions of work done in the note that prevents the downstream billing experts from using higher paying codes.

They have been aware for a few years that many clinicians aren’t documenting their work in the best way for billing. The current solution is to have an annual talk given by the one billing expert in their department pointing out where people often lose revenue due to poor documentation.

Not all the doctors attend this talk. There is no internal process for measuring subsequent improvements quantitatively. There are 85 doctors in her group.

Anyway, this is just to say that something automated to help doctors document their work in a billing friendly way seems powerful. But for my wife’s group, the issue doesn’t seem to be denied claims or “errors” per se. More omissions/sub optimal documentation due to lack of knowledge. Or lack of follow through on knowledge which is only occasionally communicated.

ttcbj commented on Claude Code SDK docs.anthropic.com/en/doc... · Posted by u/sync

d_watt · 3 months ago

Claude max plan has Claude code bundled into the price. $100/month isn't cheap, but the RoI is there for me personally.

ttcbj · 3 months ago

Thanks, this is helpful. I tried Claude Code, and thought it had a lot of potential, but I was on track to spend at least $20/day.

For a tool that radically increases productivity (say 2x), I think it could still make sense for a VC funded startup or an established company (even $100/day or $36k/year is still a lot less than hiring another developer). But for a side project or bootstrap effort, $36k/year obviously significantly increases cash expenses. $100/month does not, however.

So, I'm going to go back and upgrade to Max and try it again. If that keeps my costs to $100/month, thats a really different value proposition.

ttcbj commented on Mira Murati leaves OpenAI twitter.com/miramurati/st... · Posted by u/brianjking

vasco · a year ago

> Yet the company is still shipping, like no other

If executives / high level architects / researchers are working on this quarter's features something is very wrong. The higher you get the more ahead you need to be working, C-level departures should only have an impact about a year down the line, at a company of this size.

ttcbj · a year ago

This is a good point. I had not thought of it this way before.