krinchan

My problem is that Claude kept screaming across several sessions that it echo'ed a default password for a local, ephemeral development container into a session across SEVERAL sessions.

I get dinged continually for a vendor supplied container that writes an appropriately scoped access key to disk in plain text on startup (we are working to eliminate it but it requires migrating to an entirely new way of doing things the vendor only released earlier this year and I got derailed by other priorities).

So like if established enterprises using off the shelf scanning software are breathing down my back about this...what the actual hell is happening inside flock that this was fine. Lol.

I mean, at some point I'm not paying these guys to sit around and fiddle with their swarm of agents role playing an entire product team and need to see some results. I've seen at least five of these guys at my $job spontaneously combust into employment ending AI Psychosis.

Idk. After having THREE Quest 3s brick themselves within the extended warranty period, I really want an alternative. I can do normal cardio but rhythm games like Beat Saber and more are just such a better time of knocking out a decent hour of cardio several times a week for me. Beat Saber is more easily modded on PC and while the number of games I play is really low, this is worth it for me.

The shift here is that up until now output (code, in this case) required a degree of competence. As such, we socialized that being able to put out the code showed a degree of competence. The act of putting together a PR with working tests showed you had a level of knowledge past "I want X to do Y."

Now, you have a lot of people taught that output (a working PR) is competence. They walk around thinking they are competent because they can produce output.

When faced with criticism on working code, they collapse and flail immediately because to admit they can't explain or defend the code is to admit they are not competent. From there you've hit pretty much all of the problems that the rest of the Internet suffers from: cognitive dissonance, digging in because being wrong threatens your constructed identity, constructing echo chambers of AI Influencers peddling the latest prompt, and so on.

It's not just the status quo, it's a nightmare to enable. Somehow between Google Play Advanced Protection and Google Account Advanced Protection I have to resort to several reboots and adb + USB debugging sideload to get an app loaded. @.@

I feel like we work at the same place. IT Husbandry/Debt Paying/KTLO whatever you call it is being ground into dust. Especially repetitive stuff that I originally would've needed a week to automate and never could get to the top of the once quarterly DevOps sprint...bam. GitHub Action workflow runs weekly to pull in the latest OS images, update and roll over a smoke test VM, monitor, roll over the rest or rollback and ping me in Slack. Done in half a day.

I've got a couple Claude Code skills set up where I just copy/paste a Slack link into it and it links people relevant docs, gives them relevant troubleshooting from our logs, and a hook on the slack tools appends a Claude signature to make sure they know they weren't worth my time.

That said, there's this weird quicksand people around me get in where they just spend weeks and weeks on their AI tools and don't actually do much of anything? Like bro you burned your 5 hour CC Enterprise limit all week and committed...nothing?

No, Claude Code reads the CLAUDE.md in the root of your project. It's case sensitive so it has to be exactly that, too. Github Copilot reads from .github/copilot-instructions.md and supposedly AGENTS.md. Anigravity reads AGENTS.md and pulls subagents and the like from a .agents directory. This is probably why you have to remind it to re-read it so much, the harness isn't loading it for you.

I got an email update for a very adult kink event recently that was entirely written by Claude with emoji bulleted lists and everything. All that was missing was the EXECUTIVE SUMMARY header.

My reaction was about the same.

As someone who started out a GenAI skeptic, I’ve found the truth is in the middle.

I write a TON of one off scripts now at work. For instance, if I fight with a Splunk query for more than five minutes, I’ll just export the entire time frame in question and have GHCP (work mandates we use only GHCP) spit out a Python script that gets me what I want.

I use it with our internal MCP tools to review pull requests. It surfaces questions I didn’t think to ask about half the time.

I don’t know that it makes me more productive, but it definitely makes me more attentive. It works great for brainstorming design ideas.

The code generation isn’t entirely slop either. For the vast majority of corporate devs below Principal, it’s better than what they write and its basic CRUD code. So that’s where all the hyper productive magical claims come from. I spend most of my days lately bailing these folks out of a dead end fox hole GHCP led them into.

Unfortunately, it’s very much a huge time sink in another way. I’ve seen a pretty linear growth in M365 Copilot surfacing 5 year old word documents to managers resulting in big emails of outdated GenAI slop that would be best summarized as “I have no clue what I’m talking about and I’m going to make a terrible technical decision that we already decided against.”

I meant b from the first set which maps onto c from the second set. Lol. I should've been clearer.

The article pretty clearly lays out it's at least functionally B. The problem is Dell doesn't publish the drivers necessary for the Windows installer on it's website. You can only reinstall windows from the recovery partition or via online download via an EFI program, similar to Apple Recovery's online re-installation. Those install methods include all the Dell bloatware and telemetry settings cranked up to 11.

Having RTFA: I think it's an interesting take to centralize zoning at the state level. Houston (which has no zoning ordinances) is a terrible place to live, but it's definitely an affordable place to live.

The incentives at a state level around housing might actually balance differently because at that level economic activity, jobs, etc. matter more than property taxes. Something that isn't often mentioned, because the focus is always on California or the US, is that property values are directly tied to the overwhelming majority of municipal budgets via property taxes incurred as a percentage of that value. Not only do constituents vote for more expensive residential property, local governments want expensive residential property even if their voters didn't.

This is exactly why California has been trying to move some of this power to the state level: local governments are fighting tooth and nail to hold on to their tax revenue.

ETA: The property tax thing is more complex, but still applies. States like Florida and California cap how much tax assessments can increase for property you own that is your primary residence.

This still encourages these states to drive up property values because it tempts you into cashing out via selling. Every state with this sort of cap also immediately reassesses real estate to the price it sells at the following year. A high property value versus the tax assessment is just a deferred revenue stream, so it's a driver to encourage consistent turnover in the market. The only real way to do that is to constantly drive prices up, which drives the cost of living up, which turns over the residents faster.

So capping tax assessments like that, just makes the cycle even more viscous, in my experience living in Florida for a time.

Just say BofA.