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New comment by cleak in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"

cleak — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:08:15 +0000

I really love Obsidian and the direction they’re going with CLI. I think one of the most important things we can do while waiting for super intelligent assistants is capturing more of our thoughts and knowledge. Obsidian has been the tool I do that with.

New comment by cleak in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

cleak — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:09:01 +0000

In this case yes, but the real takeaway is to pay attention to Memory.md. If I had a particular game in mind and it latched on early to a style I didn't like, there's no guarantee it would update the memory as I try to change the style.

New comment by cleak in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

cleak — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:05:55 +0000

I read that as MomoGame at first and was very confused.

I'll have to give MonoGame another try. I was a big fan of XNA up until its deprecation. I went all in on OpenTK for a while, and in hindsight MonoGame would've been the better choice.

New comment by cleak in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

cleak — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:03:00 +0000

The model makes a huge difference. I tried this about a year ago and Claude occasionally got it right. These days, it seems to get it right on the first try most times and then always self corrects after. Codex 5.2 (I haven't played with 5.3 enough yet) gets it wrong more often than not, and frequently doesn't call the linter; I'm willing to accept that my bloated CLAUDE.md might be a bad fit for Codex and causing this to fail.

New comment by cleak in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

cleak — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:57:59 +0000

I'm playing around with a tool to generate the IDs for me. I'm honestly not sure if it'll be an improvement since it likely means more tokens/context than just letting it YOLO IDs.

New comment by cleak in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

cleak — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:30:38 +0000

Thanks for the kind words. I'm blown away by the response and positivity here.

There's definitely some social commentary to be had in the whole project. I decided it's best left to the reader to find their own rather than assigning mine to it.

New comment by cleak in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

cleak — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:14:13 +0000

Just a quick note that I have nothing to do with any meme coins. Looks like folks are using myself and Momo to pump some crypto. I won't be claiming any coins - even though they've been offered. I'd recommend others stay away from it as well.

New comment by cleak in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

cleak — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:35:58 +0000

It does. Claude seems to do the best with this prompt. Codex 5.2 struggled with UID generation and kept ending its turn with things like "And now you're all setup to run tests!" without actually running them. A better (and shorter) prompt could probably get a lot out of Codex.

New comment by cleak in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

cleak — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:33:11 +0000

Both my dogs have actually learned to use the button mats. Down selecting to the right responses seemed tricky. My wife also took away the mat since Hana (the larger one) never learned "all done" and would paw at the "walk" button until she got it out and carried it around.

New comment by cleak in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

cleak — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:29:16 +0000

Pretty neat! I actually ran across that right before publishing - I didn't want to see what was around until after I had the whole thing locked in. I love the novel input!

New comment by cleak in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

cleak — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:25:25 +0000

Momo does like to bark at the TV. I have thought of combining this with nanobana and letting her down select options. Maybe in a future update.

I'm helping my dog vibe code games

cleak — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:15:17 +0000

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New comment by cleak in "WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model"

cleak — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:41:13 +0000

That’s pretty neat. It reminds me of how VAEs work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variational_autoencoder

New comment by cleak in "“One Student One Chip” Course Homepage"

cleak — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:32:33 +0000

I’m guessing a good chunk of the page is AI generated - em dashes and random emojis.

New comment by cleak in "Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL"

cleak — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 05:56:37 +0000

It does seem significantly better on Windows. I'll give it another chance over the next couple weeks.

New comment by cleak in "Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL"

cleak — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:57:54 +0000

This is the exact reason I left Cursor for Claude Code. Night and day difference in reliability. The Windows experience might be especially bad, but it would get constantly hung or otherwise fail when trying to run commands. I also had to babysit Cursor and tell it to continue for mid sized tasks.

New comment by cleak in "ChatGPT Atlas"

cleak — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:13:14 +0000

And now it's gone on web this morning. I'm not sure if something in the conversation blocks it or if it's part of some A/B test.

New comment by cleak in "ChatGPT Atlas"

cleak — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:04:20 +0000

It isn’t present on mobile (at least on iOS) unfortunately. I use it all the time on the web though, and it’s very useful.

New comment by cleak in "Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome"

cleak — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:08:29 +0000

I’ve found I do get small bursts of 10x productivity when trying to prototype an idea - much of the research on frameworks and such just goes away. Of course that’s usually followed by struggling to make a seemingly small change for an hour or two. It seems like the 10x number is just classic engineers underestimating tasks - making estimates based on peak productivity that never materializes.

I have found for myself it helps motivate me, resulting in net productivity gain from that alone. Even when it generates bad ideas, it can get me out of a rut and give me a bias towards action. It also keeps me from procrastinating on icky legacy codebases.

New comment by cleak in "Why quadratic funding is not optimal"

cleak — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:54:19 +0000

This looks interesting, but I have no idea what I’m looking at with the original paper. Could someone provide a simple summary that doesn’t rely on knowledge of Quadratic Voting?