karl_gluck

I feel for this guy, so much. I bounced around between dentists, and may have even encountered the guy on Wilshire. But despite night grinding, TMJ and stage 4-5 gum recession, I've found stability after a bunch of years and dentists that I told to go pound sand when they wanted to make substantial physical modifications to my teeth. One of the worst was in Santa Monica; his AI receptionist still calls me trying to book appointments so they can drill in my "overdue fillings". Garbage.

What worked for me: Spider silk floss - It's thicker and somehow smoother than the "waxed" PFOS crud. Does a great job of getting stuff out of the pockets between teeth. LIVFRESH toothpaste - Better than any other toothpaste despite having no abrasives. Expensive as hell but you do only need a tiny amount. Just get used to putting water on your toothbrush first, it somehow evaporates on contact. Therasol mouthwash - Does this weird thing that wraps up any leftover food bits in your mouth into a gel you can easily spit out. Lasts for hours. Absolutely nothing like listerine or any other mouthwash I've ever tried.

Also use a tongue scraper, ultrasonic night-guard cleaner (the $20 ones work just fine) and occasionally use a Proclaim water flosser. The former are amazingly valuable, the latter... is fine I guess. It's not a substitute for real flossing. Hope this helps someone.

Idk, it’s actually great. It makes me feel like I’m listening to stardew valley. As a coder it hits exactly the right mix of engaging, hopeful, surprising and duration. Hope y’all like it too!

Agreed. After an implementation session, I often use:

"did you notice any inconsistencies or opportunities to clarify/consolidate parameters or functionality while you were working?"

Another strategy that has worked well for my MCP server is noticing a sequence of failed tool-calls, then returning a response that contains a request for the agent to provide feedback via a skill.

I’d love to give NixOS a try on an old ThinkPad. I’m pretty comfortable with Claude; is it as simple as ask and go, or do you have any suggestions for getting started?

Strongly agreed. He played BlizzCon a few years back and it was my favorite part of the weekend.

At least some, but let me give an example.

Request: “manual step X should not be part of the automated build script”

Fulfilled as: build script is now split in two. X is still done as a manual step in between. Rather than prompting and waiting for it to be done, the documentation and scripts no longer mention X.

Part poorly written requirements, part implementing under pressure, and part lack of engineering discipline.

The main issue is catching stuff like this early enough to course-correct. Differences in time zone, language and cultural norms can make that a challenge, all of which LLMs have the advantage in.

You have said this in a few places throughout the thread. At this point, citation is needed.

I work for a real business and switched from API billing to max+overflow. It saves money. It’s crazy not to. What are you talking about?

Not the op, but it’s fairly easy to hit if you automate a kanban and have some stuff you want to get done. All those little “wouldn’t it be great if” tasks that show up after doing a big task become very doable, it just soaks your tokens.

This is exactly why my preferred method at the moment is simple markdown files with instructions. At worst, a human could do it.

Yes, but at this point I'd almost rather have my CC info exposed than my personal info. There is law and consequence for fraudulent charges that protects me from loss (if not inconvenience) but there is basically no protection for playing fast and loose with my PII--in fact, it's the opposite! They sell it!

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