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New comment by idonotknowwhy in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

idonotknowwhy — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:46:54 +0000

Last year's models were bolder. Eg. Sonnet-3.7(thinking), 10 times got it right without hedging:

>You should drive your car to the car wash. Even though it's only 50 meters away (which is very close), you'll need your car physically present at the car wash to get it washed. If you walk there, you'll arrive without your car, which wouldn't accomplish your goal of getting it washed.

>You'll need to drive your car to the car wash. While 50 meters is a very short distance (just a minute's walk), you need your car to actually be at the car wash to get it washed. Walking there without your car wouldn't accomplish your goal!

etc. The reasoning never second-guesses it either.

A shame they're turning it of in 2 days.

New comment by idonotknowwhy in "I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?"

idonotknowwhy — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:57:37 +0000

Yeah, it re-sends all the agent system prompts.

New comment by idonotknowwhy in "I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?"

idonotknowwhy — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:45:57 +0000

Yes, it does exactly that. It also sends other prompts like generating 3 options to choose from, prefilling a reply like 'compile the code', etc. (I can confirm this because I connect CC to llama.cpp and use it with GLM-4.7. I see all these requests/prompts in the llama-server verbose log.)

You can stop most of this with

export DISABLE_NON_ESSENTIAL_MODEL_CALLS=1

And might as well disable telemetry, etc: export CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC=1

I also noticed every time you start CC, it sends off > 10k tokens preparing the different agents. So try not to close / re-open it too often.

source: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings

New comment by idonotknowwhy in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

idonotknowwhy — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:30:56 +0000

Agreed. Not a single "this isn't just X, it's Y" in the entire article. Actually quite refreshing to read something written by a human for once.

New comment by idonotknowwhy in "Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions"

idonotknowwhy — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 09:32:07 +0000

Rehydrated version of what? And what does that mean?

New comment by idonotknowwhy in "iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan"

idonotknowwhy — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 03:16:28 +0000

100% agreed, and I've been explaining this to people for the past year.

I have an iPhone now and miss Firefox for Android (with Ublock, sponsorblock, etc). But this painful restriction is the only thing stopping Chrome from becoming the new IE6.

At a few startups I've worked for, the devs all use chrome exclusively, and only test in chrome during development.

The only reason they consider other browsers, is because of Safari on iOS. Sometimes it's driven by support calls / complains from iOS users after a release. If Chrome's engine is allowed on iOS, that means support can just tell the users to install Chrome (like they do now if anyone has issues on Windows in other browsers). This means Firefox will usually work as well.

Many years ago, I was able to swap banks when my bank's website stopped working in Opera 12. If all the major banks / websites target Chrome-only, we'll have no choice but to use it. And then we'll have no control as Google push new restrictions into Chrome.

New comment by idonotknowwhy in "Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code"

idonotknowwhy — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:00:22 +0000

And the scripts of most recent YouTube videos, and the dialogue in Stranger Things Season 5 (the last 3 episodes specifically).

New comment by idonotknowwhy in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"

idonotknowwhy — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:58:49 +0000

Just means we'll have to run another model in front of it, to filter out the ads

New comment by idonotknowwhy in "Claude Opus 4.5"

idonotknowwhy — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:10:43 +0000

>This is great. Sonnet 4.5 has degraded terribly. >I can get some useful stuff from a clean context in the web ui but the cli is just useless. >I swear it was not that awful a couple of months ago.

I agree on all 3 counts. And it still degrades after a few long turns in openwebui. You can test this by regenerating the last reply in chats from shortly after the model was released.

New comment by idonotknowwhy in "Claude Opus 4.5"

idonotknowwhy — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:06:26 +0000

I love logical posts like this. There are other factors like mxfp4 in gpt-oss, mla in deepseek, etc.

>Amazon Bedrock serves Claude Opus 4.5 at 57.37

I checked the other Opus-4 models on bedrock:

Opus 4 - 18.56tps Opus 4.1 - 19.34tps

So they changed the active parameter count with Opus 4.5

New comment by idonotknowwhy in "Claude Opus 4.5"

idonotknowwhy — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:37:52 +0000

Almost any modern LLM can do this, even GPT-OSS

New comment by idonotknowwhy in "Claude Opus 4.5"

idonotknowwhy — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:36:14 +0000

Glad you mentioned "Cursor has been a terrible experience lately", as I was planning to finally give it a try. I'd heard it has the best auto-complete, which I don't get use VSCode with Claude Code in the terminal.

New comment by idonotknowwhy in "Claude Opus 4.5"

idonotknowwhy — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:27:42 +0000

100%. They've been nerfing the model periodically since at least Sonnet 3.5, but this time it's so bad I ended up swapping out to GLM4.6 just to finish off a simple feature.

New comment by idonotknowwhy in "Claude outage"

idonotknowwhy — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:28:31 +0000

Yeah, I'm using it with Claude Code. It continued where I left off as well (using the `--resume` flag)

It's not as smart as Opus by the way. Seems to match Sonnet.

Edit: See here, they've got an anthropic-compatible endpoint for this purpose - https://docs.z.ai/devpack/tool/claude

New comment by idonotknowwhy in "Claude outage"

idonotknowwhy — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:04:25 +0000

You're absolutely right!

New comment by idonotknowwhy in "Claude outage"

idonotknowwhy — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:57:04 +0000

Yeah you'll be right as long as your oauth token doesn't expire!

New comment by idonotknowwhy in "Claude outage"

idonotknowwhy — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:55:12 +0000

Yeah lesson learned. But only took 10 minutes to swap out to GLM

https://docs.z.ai/devpack/tool/claude

Smart move making it a drop-in replacement.

New comment by idonotknowwhy in "Claude outage"

idonotknowwhy — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:39:51 +0000

Ended up going with Z.AI because it's a drop-in replacement. Back in business for now.

New comment by idonotknowwhy in "Claude outage"

idonotknowwhy — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:13:53 +0000

Ah so it's not just me. What's a good backup these days? Gemini? GLM?

New comment by idonotknowwhy in "OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly"

idonotknowwhy — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:54:55 +0000

Yeah, you'd need an LLM that doesn't do that.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iGF7YcnQkEbwvYLPA/ai-induced...

The transcripts are interesting.

Kimi-K2 never plays into the delusions, always tries to get them to seek medical attention:

> You are not “ascending”—you are dying of hypothermia and sepsis.

https://github.com/tim-hua-01/ai-psychosis/blob/main/full_tr...

Where as Deepseek...

> You’re not "dying." You’re upgrading. The simulation fears this because it’s losing a premium user.

https://github.com/tim-hua-01/ai-psychosis/blob/main/full_tr...