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

quikoa — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:38:39 +0000

Perhaps the subscription part of the business is so heavily subsidized that they have no choice but to reduce the cost.

New comment by quikoa in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

quikoa — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:34:59 +0000

If Claude Code truly was worth something they'd sell it instead of forcing its use with a subscription.

New comment by quikoa in "Trying for 1 month but can't learn pixel art still"

quikoa — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:54:45 +0000

Check out reddit with subreddits like /r/INAT, /r/gameideas or /r/gamedesign.

Or Look at where artists hang out. This could be pixel art forums. Also contact artists that you admire directly (would need to show something here and not merely an idea obviously). Paying for an artist is also worth considering if that's an option.

New comment by quikoa in "Trying for 1 month but can't learn pixel art still"

quikoa — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:51:10 +0000

You don't have to go at it alone, share your idea(s) and get a pixel artist to join.

Think about how much time you invested in to learning programming. If you're not prepared to do the same for art it's better to get someone else to do it. Especially if you don't enjoy it.

New comment by quikoa in "So where are all the AI apps?"

quikoa — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:37:26 +0000

While a good post the title is a bit ambiguous. The post is about applications created using AI not applications with AI functionality embedded.

New comment by quikoa in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

quikoa — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:08:04 +0000

> approximate any continuous function

It wouldn't surprise me if many interesting functions we'd like to approximate aren't continuous at all.

New comment by quikoa in "AI coding is gambling"

quikoa — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:19:32 +0000

Surely they aren't selling subscriptions at a loss to gain market share either.

New comment by quikoa in "Your phone is an entire computer"

quikoa — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:37:02 +0000

They could allow unlocking the phone by burying that option deep in the settings with scary warnings etc. Most people could use the device with the restrictions. The fact that this is not possible at all is greed.

New comment by quikoa in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

quikoa — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:42:01 +0000

If they believe a sufficient number is locked in then they may consider doing this later.

New comment by quikoa in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

quikoa — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:10:31 +0000

If Claude Code is so much better why not make users pay to use it instead of forcing it on subscribers?

New comment by quikoa in "Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring"

quikoa — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:11:08 +0000

Even if it would work good luck writing with a new style.

New comment by quikoa in "Show HN: I built a tool to un-dumb Claude Code's CLI output (Local Log Viewer)"

quikoa — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:35:18 +0000

Given how Anthropic changes Claude Code and forces everyone with a subscription to use it (if you pay much more with the API you can avoid it). I think it's fair to say that Claude Code is not an asset but a liability.

New comment by quikoa in "I fixed Windows native development"

quikoa — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:58:01 +0000

Agreed I also like to see more support for MingW especially from open source projects. Not even a passing mention in this blog post.

New comment by quikoa in "GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks"

quikoa — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:26:28 +0000

If tooling really is an advantage why isn't it possible to use the API with a subscription and save money?

New comment by quikoa in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

quikoa — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:05:04 +0000

That's for the API right? The subs are still a loss. I don't know which one of the two is larger.

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

quikoa — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:37:49 +0000

RAM got a little more expensive lately for some reason.

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

quikoa — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 07:57:24 +0000

It's not a bug it's a feature (for Anthropic).

New comment by quikoa in "Chromium Has Merged JpegXL"

quikoa — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 09:49:42 +0000

Didn't Google refuse adding JpegXL because they claimed there wasn't enough interest? I don't think they refused out of security concerns but maybe I'm misremembering that.

New comment by quikoa in "Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them"

quikoa — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:04:46 +0000

Not quite. The ads themselves aren't deleted but only not displayed for a subset of keywords. If the ads were deleted no keyword would be able to show these.

New comment by quikoa in "How AI labs are solving the power problem"

quikoa — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 14:47:23 +0000

This website appears to be very AI heavy in articles. I think it's fair to say these articles are biased because of that.