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New comment by scuderiaseb in "The case for physical media ownership"

scuderiaseb — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:29:02 +0000

As they say, piracy is the only true ownership.

New comment by scuderiaseb in "Jobs and Software Is Fucked"

scuderiaseb — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:50:31 +0000

I have been the lead of a very stressful project that was the highest priority for the company I work for and it was crucial to get this working as it was a hard deadline. I started using AI a lot, but I still read the code and sometimes it was so garbage. I had two developers with me, but they were both kind of new in the domain and one didn’t know the programming language. The project finished and the part my coworkers developed was fundamentally flawed, it worked for ~85% of the cases but not all and caused an incident.

Now I get to work with two of my other friends/colleagues and they are amazing. They don’t use AI at all and so neither do I and it is glorious. It is so nice to build things like this and honestly not meaningfully slower either. It took us some time to figure out all the details, edge cases and all. Writing tests first, I love it!

New comment by scuderiaseb in "Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things"

scuderiaseb — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:37:50 +0000

Great perspective! As a sidenote, I really like json5 for everything that would be needed for a human to read and it has great support everywhere. It fixes so many of JSONs shortcomings like comments.

Edit: forgot the link if anyone’s interested https://json5.org/

New comment by scuderiaseb in "Dumbphone 2"

scuderiaseb — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:39:10 +0000

I like the idea and even though I would like to have something like this, I still find need for a smartphone for certain things. In Sweden we are basically required to have an identification app (Bank ID) and that app alone can’t even be used unless you have NFC, which for instance an iPad doesn’t so that you could offload to that. Small things like this I run into constantly.

Fortunately I have discipline enough that my smartphone is a glorified dumb phone with a great camera and some other useful apps. Everything else I try to offload to iPad since I am much less often on that device. It also takes a bit of time and effort but focus modes are great too.

New comment by scuderiaseb in "Claude Opus 4.8"

scuderiaseb — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:24:19 +0000

So this is how they’ll remove access from Claude Pro to the biggest models. You would need at least a Claude Max subscription for the bigger than Opus models I bet.

New comment by scuderiaseb in "The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility"

scuderiaseb — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:46:41 +0000

I use ghostty and tmux, that makes it really nice to be in th terminal and have access to good TUIs. I use neovim and k9s mostly and those are such amazinng tools, AI stuff sure but that’s because I don’t really have any other choice. I also use lazygit lately but that’s mostly to get familiar and to have a nicer view of commit history than ’git log —graph’. Also I hate electron apps so well made TUIs are a step up compared to running a web browser for one app.

New comment by scuderiaseb in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

scuderiaseb — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:48:30 +0000

> I do not know how you can do it on a Pro plan with Claude Opus 4.7 which is 7.5x more in terms of limit consumption and any small to medium size codebase would easily consume your limits in just the planning phase up to 50% in a single prompt

I also don’t understand because all I ever hear is people saying $100 Max plan is the minimum for serious work. I made 3-4 plans today, I’m familiar with the codebase and pointed the LLM in the direction where it needed to go. I described the functionality I wanted which wasn’t a huge rewrite, it touched like 4 files of which one was just a module of pydantic models. But one plan was 30% of usage and I had this over two sessions because I got a reset. I did read and understand everything line of code so that part takes me some time to do.

New comment by scuderiaseb in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

scuderiaseb — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:34:50 +0000

I must be doing something very different from everyone else, but I write what I want and how I want it and Opus 4.7 plans it for me, then I carefully review. Often times I need to validate and check things, sometimes I’ve revised the plan multiple times. Then implementation which I still use Opus for because I get a warning that my current model holds the cache so Sonnet shouldn’t implement. And honestly, I’m mostly within my Pro subscription, granted I also have ChatGPT Plus but I’ve mostly only used that as the chat/quick reference model. But yeah takes some time to read and understand everything, a lot of the time I make manual edits too.

New comment by scuderiaseb in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

scuderiaseb — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:19:47 +0000

Opus 4.7 was released a week ago, at that point all limits were reset, so this was very beneficial to them because basically everyones weekly limit Was anyway about to be reset.

New comment by scuderiaseb in "Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?"

scuderiaseb — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:37:16 +0000

I have found it very useful in pointing me in the right direction, exploring codebases and writing up boiler plate or other scaffolding. However I do need to review and test, and at the end of the day it’s me who’s responsible for the code. So I only make it write parts of code at a time, not oneshotting a new Github company.

New comment by scuderiaseb in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

scuderiaseb — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:39:44 +0000

The “retreat” framing is too US-centric. I’m in Sweden and European OEMs aren’t retreating — BMW Neue Klasse just launched, Renault 5 is a hit, Skoda Enyaq/Elroq are everywhere. These are competitive new platforms shipping right now.

And the Iran/Hormuz situation actually strengthens the case for EVs, not weakens it. Swedish electricity is almost entirely hydro, nuclear and wind. When oil spikes, petrol drivers feel it immediately. EV drivers barely notice. Pulling back from electrification right now is doing exactly the wrong thing at the wrong time.

New comment by scuderiaseb in "Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode"

scuderiaseb — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:25:25 +0000

Worth noting something the PR comments are glossing over is that the auth plugin wasn’t actually deleted in this PR, just removed from the default bundle. A third-party plugin doing the same thing is still technically on the table. OpenCode just can’t be the one shipping it anymore. Whether that holds up legally is anyone’s guess, but it’s not a hard wall.

New comment by scuderiaseb in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

scuderiaseb — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:27:12 +0000

I can’t believe it’s 2026 and while I had a 5K iMac in 2016, today it’s still impossible to find a good 5K display. The Studio Display XDR fits the bill, but in Sweden it’s ridiculously priced, even more ridiculous than in USD which is also ridiculously priced. There are no other monitors that are 5K and 120Hz. But I still can’t pay what Apple is asking for this.

New comment by scuderiaseb in "Things that aren't doing the thing"

scuderiaseb — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 14:55:41 +0000

This hits hard, not in my programming work which it also hits but there at least I am sharpening my toolset by reading books, and learning things. This hits the hardest for me training Jiu Jitsu, where I do love the sport but I feel it's so hard to come back to training when I am in such a bad shape. So I say to people that I do Jiu Jitsu, I watch videos, I follow some competitions. Heck I even go with my kids to THEIR training but I only train myself once a month maybe at this rate.

New comment by scuderiaseb in "State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions"

scuderiaseb — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:53:40 +0000

Nothing even mentioned on WezTerm really?

New comment by scuderiaseb in "That boolean should probably be something else"

scuderiaseb — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:53:09 +0000

Depends, if you're absolutely sure whatever you have has just two states. Then by all means, use a boolean. But booleans are harder to read than enum values and you're skipping that because of saving a few bytes on the DB?

This is not premature optimization, sometimes booleans can be extremely hard to change so it's not as easy as "just refactor".

New comment by scuderiaseb in "Replacing tmux in my dev workflow"

scuderiaseb — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 10:05:27 +0000

Personally no, I use vim keybindings in the terminal not emacs which is the default.

New comment by scuderiaseb in "Sam Altman's Lies About ChatGPT Are Growing Bolder"

scuderiaseb — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:37:13 +0000

Batteries are the most expensive parts on EVs, they're heavy, require rare-earth metals and they wear out. So not an ideal solution.

Would be pretty cool to have the EV batteries on cars hooked up to the electric infrastructure and handle the offset and also charging them when there is too much power in the grid.

New comment by scuderiaseb in "Sam Altman's Lies About ChatGPT Are Growing Bolder"

scuderiaseb — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:33:51 +0000

The sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow. What is your solution then, burn coal and oil? Nuclear has a great role to fill the gap reliably.

New comment by scuderiaseb in "Stop Over-Thinking AI Subscriptions – Peter Steinberger"

scuderiaseb — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 10:03:35 +0000

Would be cheaper in the long run maybe but heat, noise, electricity cost and the fact that the models are not as good as sonnet 4 and opus 4 are some things to consider.