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New comment by TomGarden in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"

TomGarden — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:10:31 +0000

Anyone else feel like they're going insane sometimes?

It's so simple, everyone on HN knows this, but I want to scream at every non-technical person "these tools are not reliable! You can't trust them!"

They are so useful but the failure modes need to be hammered into everyone at the very start of each onboarding.

It would be totally rational as a layperson to just ignore AI and just check in every few months to ask "is it reliable yet".

New comment by TomGarden in "New Claude Code programmatic usage restrictions"

TomGarden — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:46:24 +0000

The big thing for me is the TTS, custom UI and persistent background mode! ie it switches turns automatically etc, no need to touch screen or keep screen on.

The STT on Gboard is very solid, so if that covers your use case you're good!

New comment by TomGarden in "New Claude Code programmatic usage restrictions"

TomGarden — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:26:37 +0000

The biggest difference is that mine is audio-first - it reads everything out over Android tts by default, and runs a computer-side parakeet + Silero VAD server for transcription (My eyes struggle with small screens, though I use it text only occasionally). It's like a voice assistant but with Claude Code. I also made a custom GUI the with shortcuts and stuff, making saying "end conversation" actually end the conversation etc.

Maybe something similar can be done with tmux still, I'm definitely going to explore it

New comment by TomGarden in "New Claude Code programmatic usage restrictions"

TomGarden — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:48:51 +0000

This sucks. I use Claude -p over tailscale to code over voice when I’m on the go for accessibility reasons, and most of the time I do the same while at the computer. Running through $200 in API pricing takes no time. Oh well, time to switch providers I guess.

New comment by TomGarden in "How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale"

TomGarden — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:45:14 +0000

Claude voice mode has come a long way! I'd say it's smarter than CGPT AVM last time i tried it.

But personally I've settled on just speaking to the slower models over a custom tts app, I find it being instant was not actually that important, and in the silence I find myself marinating in the discussion more anyway

New comment by TomGarden in "How ChatGPT serves ads"

TomGarden — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:03:36 +0000

The kissing noise analogy is spot on! Made me smile

New comment by TomGarden in "DeepSeek v4"

TomGarden — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:25:29 +0000

I a European who spent the last decade in America and I'm not sure I'd call Americans privileged compared to Europe. With money being the one means you have to be treated well in society, comparing it to Europe, America feels like the hunger games. Want healthcare (ie surviving)? Healthy food? To own your house? Welcome to the games

New comment by TomGarden in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

TomGarden — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:48:07 +0000

I used to think like what you describe, but I've fallen on the side of "art is just more emotionally resonant human communication". And most of the time human communication with more effort and thought behind it. AI art falls short on both being human and, on average, having more effort or thought behind it than your general interaction at the supermarket.

I will say, it can be emotionally resonant though - but it's a borrowed property from the perception of human communication and effort that made the art the models were trained on.

New comment by TomGarden in "Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7"

TomGarden — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:45:09 +0000

Had better, faster results by changing to medium effort. Weird, but the xhigh default chugged forever just to come back with poorer solutions than 4.6 on medium

New comment by TomGarden in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

TomGarden — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:08:33 +0000

Asked Opus 4.7 to extend an existing system today. After thorough exploration and a long back and forth on details it came up with a plan. Then proceeded to build a fully parallel, incompatible system from scratch with the changes I wanted but everything else incompatible and full of placeholders

New comment by TomGarden in "The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama"

TomGarden — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:40:17 +0000

The performance issues are crazy. Thanks for sharing this

New comment by TomGarden in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

TomGarden — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:40:18 +0000

It seems unclear if this covers all Claude -p uses or just the ones they can identify as misuse/third party. Did they speak on this anywhere?

I use Claude -p for a lot if not most of my coding workflows

New comment by TomGarden in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

TomGarden — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:19:15 +0000

Nah, there's apparently a few caching bugs, one --resume and some noisy tool use. I have a little app that monitors and resets the context window at 70% usage based on 200k tokens and I'm about to run out of weekly allowance after just a couple days. Never happened before

New comment by TomGarden in "Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control"

TomGarden — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:02:31 +0000

For many it's not about the children. For many it is.

I haven't made my mind up on this topic, but Jesus, the comments here strawmanning everyone who supports this kind of thing as disingenuous or worse... Wow.

I'm not sure how we make any corner of the internet usable within the next few years without verification given all the misinfo, bots & AI slop anyway.

New comment by TomGarden in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

TomGarden — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:54:40 +0000

This makes no sense, their value in the marketplace is in usage and inflated promise, not actual revenues

New comment by TomGarden in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

TomGarden — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:42:22 +0000

It will be a begrudged but normalized compromise of modern life, like GMO, Auto-Tune and foreign child labour. Which of those it will be perceived as the closest to is hard to say right now