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I did a comparison with an LLM of my choice and there was no meaningful difference (or nothing I would consider HN-worthy).

Given the HN-worthy differences posted by others, here’s another example of why it’s not a good idea to delegate your thinking to LLMs.

I… guess? I'm not sure why this was posted. None of these changes seem important.

I saw a comment and didn’t prompt an LLM and see the whole difference: https://www.diffchecker.com/QD8AKShC/

Untrustworthy... yes.

I get more annoyed by the timeout it adds. Logging in 10 years ago? A thing of seconds.

Logging in today? Either magic links through mail (delivered to you within the next 30min thanks to graylisting or spam filters) or a login flow with requires 5 dialogs and 5 confirmation of "no, just log me in".


We have a CLAUDE.md file whose only content is "please read .agents/agents.md"

Wouldn't symlinking it be faster and use fewer tokens?

I did that but not necessarily.

When prompted to write to it, it will always try to write into the Claude.md and error out with that approach.. It eventually figures it out, but it's a ymmv situation I think


It also works more reliably. I've tested this quite a bit. Instructions in files referenced via CLAUDE.md are more likely to fall out of context or to be ignored. Raw project level CLAUDE.md instructions are the second most durable available as far as I know. I used to have a "well organized" hierarchy of rules and instructions. Collapsing all of that into CLAUDE.md + skills made things far more predictable and "as instructed".

Maybe I'm not up to speed but i deleted claude.md while testing weird opus 5 behaviors, it came back saying nothing was used in claude.md but rather storing context in memories.md in some .claude/projectname/memories folder in my user profile....

How is agents.md and different? Just a standard for other models? Is claude the lower standard now?


Everyone does. But I think you're missing the point. It's effectively a billboard in the root of your repo.

Sent from my iPhone.


it's been a standard practice on open source projects, right? CLAUDE.md only have one sentence "read ./AGENTS.md", lol.

Or just developer/mansgement slop? I don't understand why every app needs to be updated every second day (at least it feels like that).

The easiest way to count how many apps you have is to turn off automated updates and wait a week. The number of updates equals the number of apps.


> accumulator

I had similar trouble, but I know call the "accumulator" just "previous" which makes it more logical in my head:

.reduce( (previous, current) => previous+current, 0 );


That's an interesting idea. I might get hung up for cases where "previous" is a different type from "current", like if you're reducing a list of objects into a single object. You've got the current item of the array and the current state of the accumulator, so they're kind of both current. Or you've got the last state and current item, but "last" is ambiguous.

In general, I find that if something is hard to describe in plain language, it's hard to code. Reducers are a bit clunky to talk about, which could make them harder to reason about, too.


> So, first up: why? Why is everything still using SOAP?

That‘s the question? And not why every single invoice has to go through the government?

I would call that developers loss of focus.


> Sorry, I meant revenues. If Nvidia's revenues stay stable,

But aren‘t they currently sitting on like a margin of over 80%? So I assume their revenue will fall, because people are not going to like that in the long-term.


People who work with virtualization on Linux will (hopefully) all know what SPICE is.

Edit: typo


People who know what both of them are (hello) still won't know which one the headline is talking about.

The circuit one is definitely older, probably has more users, and is just as relevant in this forum.


> with visualization on Linux

You mean ‘virtualization’ here, I guess.


Nope. I work with virtualization on Linux every day, and have done so for many years (and many varieties of virtualization). I didn't recognize it by the name, and I don't remember hearing about it before.

Yes, a circuit simulator.

I tried to remove a not-anoymore-existing company I had a business profile before from Google Maps. I was close to giving up, it's such a complicated process that is fully intransparent.

Kudos for you for trying 4 times.


The lesson here is: don’t do free work for corporations.

I don't even fill out surveys anymore for the most part, unless it gets me a discount or something.

Cold hard cash. If they want my input, they can pay me for my time.

If it’s a small or local business that I like patronizing then I might do something small for them out of generosity and a desire to see them succeed in place of some large chain or corpo.


Like the animated GIF on the landing page?

[1] https://www.openshot.org/


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