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New comment by arcanemachiner in "How the Claude Code team does code review"

arcanemachiner — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 01:26:40 +0000

Mermaid is a great output format for this type of information. Flowcharts, sequence diagrams, etc.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "You could have invented transformers from memory"

arcanemachiner — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:48:20 +0000

Because I'm an idiot.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Muse Spark Open"

arcanemachiner — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:20:46 +0000

I don't think that's likely, given the close release dates of both? I wonder if 5.3 just choked on too much RL slop, independently of Opus 5.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Muse Spark Open"

arcanemachiner — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:18:47 +0000

Yes, but what metric defines what constitutes a given reasoning level? That's what's arbitrary here, not the label (which is also arbitrary).

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Jev meets the Trolley Problem"

arcanemachiner — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:08:55 +0000

I can't, because I don't think you have any coins on you. :)

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men"

arcanemachiner — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 01:00:48 +0000

You're just describing an alternative fiction with a lot less public buy-in, which from the outside looks about as plausible as the Sovereign Citizen movement that became infamous a few years back.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

arcanemachiner — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:29:47 +0000

How about this:

https://hnrss.org/user?id=tcdent

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

arcanemachiner — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:25:33 +0000

You're talking about a company who sells software subscriptions of multiples of 1x, 5x, and 20x, without telling you the base amount of what "x" actually gets you, and changing it over time.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

arcanemachiner — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:21:46 +0000

Have you used any other harnesses? I feel like the shortcomings of one harness may not be visible until you contrast it with another that does the thing correctly.

My favourite is Claude Code's /rewind feature, which gets so many things wrong for having such a simple UI. (Does selecting the default option still wipe your filesystem changes by default when going back to a previous entry? I found a poorly-documented way to circumvent that "feature", which only adds to my initial point.)

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

arcanemachiner — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:18:04 +0000

Gang of Four

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

arcanemachiner — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:25:49 +0000

Actually, it's a technique used to make eggs, and I understand that the eggs are perfectly fine with this usage of the term.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities"

arcanemachiner — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:03:45 +0000

Sounds like prime breeding ground for a future Stuxnet-type situation.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

arcanemachiner — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:55:19 +0000

I ascertain that they were using hyperbole as a form of humor.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey"

arcanemachiner — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:50:57 +0000

The name of the Claude Code executable is called `claude`, so they may have been referring to the harness, not the model.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with GPT-6 Astra"

arcanemachiner — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:41:48 +0000

You just have to get it in the mood.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default"

arcanemachiner — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 23:39:08 +0000

Not true; They rolled back some of the changes you're thinking about IIRC.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default"

arcanemachiner — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 23:37:12 +0000

I don't think that's always true.

Although I just looked into it, and even Ubuntu 26.04 appear to default to tmpfs for /tmp storage, so I guess it's fairly universal now.

Not sure if I agree with that idea in principle... What's wrong with just wiping it intermittently??

New comment by arcanemachiner in "RJ Mitte has died"

arcanemachiner — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 23:32:41 +0000

Sounds like he killed the wrong person.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"

arcanemachiner — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:11:53 +0000

Hmm... interesting opinion. I disagree, and will insult you for it. With any luck, this comment chain will devolve into a thread of unsubstantiated opinions and ad hominems.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default"

arcanemachiner — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:29:26 +0000

Try using the "rewind" feature to go back to a previous message.

Went too far? Oops, it's not accessible from the Claude Code UI anymore! You can get the agent to dredge up the info from the session logs, but you'd better hope they put the pieces together correctly.

Also, you can't rewind to a steering message. Want to make sure you can rewind to it? Wait for the agent to settle, or stop them, enter your message, and hope you don't throw them off their current train of thought.

To see a proper rewind UI, see how Pi does it: Every message is available, forked conversation history is preserved. It has its own issues, but is miles ahead of Claude Code in this regard.