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New comment by zormino in "The classifiers Anthropic puts in front of Fable are too zealous"

zormino — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:39:46 +0000

I think the intent was just to show how sensitive the classifier is. If it flags prompts that simple, there's no hope for anything biology related at all really.

New comment by zormino in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

zormino — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:09:34 +0000

And you can bypass a seatbelt warning by just plugging in a buckle without the belt, but most people don't bother. It's not worth the inconvenience to circumvent, so it still has a positive impact on safety.

New comment by zormino in "We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works"

zormino — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:22:10 +0000

This time is different though (which has also been said every single time). But I'm worried this time it's true (also said every time). Doesn't help with the unease though.

New comment by zormino in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

zormino — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:40:37 +0000

I actually agree, Linux is well past the point a minimally tech competent person can use it fine, but it doesn't solve the fact that even if Linux was flawless, there is still a switching cost in time, relearning a new system, and worst (best?) of all of you decide you are willing to do all of that now you can get entirely lost in the weeds picking a distro. I used Linux all through university, then went back to windows out of convenience and needing to use it for work anyways.

Until one day I got so frustrated with constant settings resets, reboots at the worst times for software updates that fail, highjacking my pc after every update for a guided tour of the latest things Microsoft decided to break, and telemetry that can only be disabled with an obscure registry hack that changes every few months, I just couldn't anymore.

Linux has been good enough as a daily driver for a while now, but even with proton I don't know if the pull factors towards Linux will ever be strong enough for most people. For me though the push factors away from Microsoft had gotten so strong I couldn't take it anymore.

New comment by zormino in "Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year"

zormino — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:20:21 +0000

Agreed. For personal use it's already easily worth $100 a month (to me personally). More probably. For work, it's entirely based on its financial impact for a given role, and for some people/companies it will be worth the cost even at $X thousand per month per seat.

New comment by zormino in "Donut Lab's 'solid-state' battery exposed as regular li-ion in investigation"

zormino — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:16:58 +0000

A year ago this same guy was selling artificial super intelligence, right around the corner, and you'd get so rich if you would just give him some money. no idea why anyone believes the same guy when he pulls a new scam. I'm curious what he tries to pull next year.

New comment by zormino in "Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish"

zormino — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:50:12 +0000

I really like the 3d printer analogy. You can still make some pretty cool stuff, you can make some pretty complex things if you carefully design the whole system and put in the effort to print each part individually, and quality depends both on how good of a 3d printer you have and on the proper use of it. "3d print me a new house" is still a pipe-dream: you'll get some miniature facsimile of a house, sure, but a proper house requires proper tools and expertise.

New comment by zormino in "Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish"

zormino — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:07:19 +0000

Who cares? Nothing wrong with trying to make a product to sell, but projects dont have to be to sell. I've been having a blast lately working on an old game engine I started during covid and getting sidetracked into some new projects. None of them will ever make me a dime but I'm learning a ton and having fun.

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

zormino — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:12:20 +0000

jevons paradox

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

zormino — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:50:57 +0000

I also think some of this stems from the default 1m context window. Performance starts to degrade when context size increases, and each token over (i think the level is) 400k counts more towards your usage limit. Defaulting to 1m context size, if people arent carefully managing context (which they shouldnt ever have to in an ideal world), they would notice somewhat degraded performance and increased token usage regardless.

New comment by zormino in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

zormino — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:32:29 +0000

Because most people work for someone else and don't decide their own salaries. It's not doubling productivity, but even a 10-20% boost to productivity for a team of engineers means that, as a business, even $1k per month per seat is perfectly acceptable. For consumers and hobbyists that basically kills access.

New comment by zormino in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

zormino — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:29:25 +0000

I think removing Claude Code from the $20 tier is a terrible idea, I never would've gone from nothing right into the $100/200 tier. The $20 plan let me get my feet wet and see how good it could be, and in less than a week I was on the $100 plan.

I think they need to at least have a 1 month introductory rate for the max plan at $20, or devs that decide to try out agentic coding just won't go to Anthropic.

That leads to downstream impacts, like when a company is deciding which AI coding tools to provide and the feedback management hears everyone is already used to (e.x.) Codex, then Anthropic starts losing the enterprise side of things.

New comment by zormino in "AI chatbots could be making you stupider"

zormino — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:53:37 +0000

My biggest worry isn't that it will make me dumb (it won't), or that it will make me lazy (it will), but that people raised with it wont learn things in the first place. I'm split on if this is a real issue or an old man rants about slide rules and the decline of mental math kinda situation.

New comment by zormino in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

zormino — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:36:33 +0000

Same for my s24, 80% battery limit and slow charging at night (most of my charging). It's been over 2 years and the battery seems to last just as long as day one

New comment by zormino in "Claude Design"

zormino — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:21:02 +0000

You mean you aren't still using Google Duo and Allo? Google Reader? Playing games on your Stadia? I'd be worried about really locking into a specific Anthropic product at this point other than Claude Code

New comment by zormino in "Cursor 3"

zormino — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:18:34 +0000

This is why I use Claude Code though, it pairs well with a regular old text editor (in my case Sublime). I've always had an editor and a terminal open, plugging an AI into my terminal has been a fantastic enhancement to my work without really anything else changing or giving up any control.

New comment by zormino in "Anatomy of the .claude/ folder"

zormino — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:03:59 +0000

That's what you should be doing. Start from plain Claude, then add on to it for your specific use cases where needed. Skills are fantastic if used this way. The problem is people adding hundreds or thousands of skills that they download and will never use, but just bloat the entire system and drown out a useful system.

New comment by zormino in "VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf]"

zormino — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:16:45 +0000

Nothing prevents that, and the test lab wouldn't bat an eye at that. For all they know or care, you wanted to run different test on different cells. The only thing the lab is verifying is that the defined test was executed as stated, nothing else.

New comment by zormino in "NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again"

zormino — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:38:47 +0000

When I was in university, I had a math teacher that brought extra chalk to class everyday because if he saw you on your phone, he'd snap a piece off and throw it at you pretty damn hard. Maybe that wouldn't exactly work in a high school but damn if Dr Murphy didn't have me paying attention in that class.

New comment by zormino in "What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?"

zormino — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:41:23 +0000

Also in 1950 the population of the US was 151 million, today it's 341 million. it has more than doubled, and the amount of space has stayed the same. More people competing for the same amount of property will always lead to inflated housing costs beyond what inflation would predict.