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

liamsfr — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:35:22 +0000

It's funny that as an avid user and developer on cc, I never used third-party harnesses, never shared my account, have one account and paid for another I just signed up for (both max 20) a more serious side project. And I'm a copius user of claude -p (spawned by their own opus [1m] model) that loops (in code written by opus) = yet I got my second account banned.

When are the honest users ever going to catch a break?

New comment by liamsfr in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

liamsfr — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:05:18 +0000

And if memory.md can’t and you need something quick and dirty for flat memory management, I wrote a plugin just for this.

https://github.com/NominexHQ/pmm-plugin

New comment by liamsfr in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

liamsfr — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:02:17 +0000

Isn’t that what they just did here? Close Stella’s Issue, cross post to hn, then completely sidestep an observation users are making, and attack the analyst of transcripts with a straw man attack blaming… thinking summaries….

New comment by liamsfr in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

liamsfr — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:58:23 +0000

So we are paying the price for the cost of infra need to protect their asset which was trained on data derived from the work of others while ignoring the same principle? I need this to make sense.

New comment by liamsfr in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

liamsfr — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:54:32 +0000

So: 1/ lack of thinking in transcripts is not a decisive metric for determining if any thinking was done, but 2/ the reply does not address the qualitative aspects that Stella’s team observed and provided data for from what amounted to a bad qualitative experience with serious financial implications.

It’s a sidestep for explaining away the research, but does not address the underlying issue: has quality been degrading (selectively, intentionally or otherwise)?

Agentic memory: the field is converging – but we're measuring the wrong thing

liamsfr — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:06:21 +0000

https://nominex.substack.com/p/agentic-memory-the-field-is-converging

We built Poor Man's Memory because we were sick of rehydrating agents every session and burning tokens in the process. We ran 1451 dispatches to understand our memory system better and measured something no one else seems to be measuring: institutional coherence, not just task completion.

The right answer not grounded in institutional knowledge should be considered a partial true positive (or negative) at best, right answer citing the wrong knowledge a false positive. We found from our own experience, simply the measuring task completion is not enough.

The most surprising finding: the partial context trap. Half an answer is worse than no answer at all. We burned 150 dispatches learning this the hard way.

Also turns out the 85% lift we measured is exactly the known retrieval-to-oracle upper bound from 20 years of IR literature. We had no idea when we ran the test. No one ever beats that number. That's the number to beat in agentic memory.

Paper (v1.0): https://nominex.org/research/what-we-found-building-poor-mans-multi-agent-memory.html

Happy to answer questions.

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