Hacker News: robertkarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=robertkarlHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:26:50 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by robertkarl in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"]]>For what it's worth: here's my experience in the first 10 minutes of using Qwen locally to write some code. https://github.com/robertkarl/local-qwen-first-10-minutes it includes some token generation numbers and steps to repro.

]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:23:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856197robertkarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856197https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856197<![CDATA[New comment by robertkarl in "Claude Code removed from Anthropic's Pro plan"]]>That also was really opaque to me RE: API access. I initially thought at $200/month I could get whatever I needed. I eventually set up a OpenAI API with a few bucks to try what I wanted to.

]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:34:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855545robertkarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855545https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855545<![CDATA[New comment by robertkarl in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"]]>I will report back... but I have to recommend this comment on a post about Qwen 3.6 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843466 by daemonologist

it goes into detail about llama-server args; quants to try; and layer/kv cache splits. I plan to try the techniques there.

]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:27:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855452robertkarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855452https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855452<![CDATA[New comment by robertkarl in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"]]>One thing I enjoy about Cursor and Codex mac apps is the embedded preview window. I know it's not as hardcore as the terminal/tmux but it's hella convenient. But Cursor bugs me with the opacity around what model I'm using. It seems deliberately to be routing requests based on its perceived complexity. What draws you to codex vs cursor?

]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:19:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855344robertkarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855344https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855344<![CDATA[New comment by robertkarl in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"]]>This was literally my task today, to try out Qwen 9B locally on my, albeit a bit memory-constrained at 18GB, macbook with pi or opencode. Before reading this update.

]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:11:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855269robertkarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855269https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855269<![CDATA[New comment by robertkarl in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"]]>I don't think I've ever been on such a rollercoaster with a company's reputation in the developer space. I started in January on the $20 plan, essentially my first agentic AI programming. I quickly started hitting limits developing several apps at the same time. I went up to the $200 plan after seeing the value.

After seeing my own issues with 4.6 and the mega-post on Github about declining metrics in a decent dataset of claude chats by Stella Laurenzo at AMD (https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796), I downgraded to the $100 plan. Hallucinations. Laziness. Lack of thinking. The responses on those mega-threads from Anthropic rubbed me the wrong way in a "you're holding it wrong" kinda way.

In the past week, I downgraded back to the $20 plan because the Codex $20 plan on 5.4 was working so well for me.

Then throw in other oddball events like the source code leak, and the super positive Anthropic events like their interactions with the current administration. It's a wild ride.

I can't understand removing Claude Code from $20. I'm interested to see whether this is confirmed or not.

I'm a career engineer and I went from being one of their most outspoken proponents (at least within my circle) and now.... I'm not.

]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:49:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854990robertkarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854990https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854990<![CDATA[Dominoes Agent Tracker: pizza tracker for your agent work]]>Article URL: https://github.com/robertkarl/DominoesAgentTracker

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]]>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:11:36 +0000https://github.com/robertkarl/DominoesAgentTrackerrobertkarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839124https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839124<![CDATA[Grug Meets His Match – Or – Grug, Claude, and Big Snap Man]]>Article URL: https://robertkarl.net/blog/articles/grug-meets-his-match-or-grug-claude-and-big-snap-man/index.html

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]]>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:45:06 +0000https://robertkarl.net/blog/articles/grug-meets-his-match-or-grug-claude-and-big-snap-man/index.htmlrobertkarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47044125https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47044125<![CDATA[Show HN: Yabc – open-source Bitcoin tax calculator]]>Article URL: https://github.com/robertkarl/yabc

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