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I was interested until bezos. Hard pass.

With access to view usage for my org and conversations with developers, I think much of the high token usage is a result of people not knowing how to right size the model for the given task. The trend seems to be to pick the most powerful model and use it for everything. Based upon git metrics, I'm one of the top performing engineers at my org and I've yet to run into any overage or throttling on the $200/mo anthropic sub.

Create .claude/commands/ when you have well defined repeatable, multi-step actions you want to take. I have a command `/triage` where I provide it a bug report and it asks me questions to start scaffolding a work area, lookup related issues, create patches, etc.

Create .claude/agents/ when you have a narrow scoped thing that you want to happen, but not pollute the main context and have a well formed output. Also handy for reducing costs by using a different model for a class of actions you repeat often. For example, the "lookup related issues" from `/triage` is a Sonnet agent that finds Trac issues for a bug reports. Main context only needs the small list of matches and not the dozens of not relevant ones.

Create .claude/skills/ for job description like behaviors you want. For example, code reviewer or security researcher.

For any of these, install the `/plugin` skill-creator. Run `/init` if you don't have a claude.md and then ask the skill creator to help you improve the claude.md and create useful commands and skills.

Any take home test trivial enough to complete in under 20 minutes could be completed by an AI. The only signal you get from a take home test is whether or not they can submit answers. It doesn't let you know if the candidate is capable of passing the test unassisted.

Take home tests were never a worthwhile signal. Pre-AI, people would search for solutions or have another person complete it.

Creating, possessing, and distributing CSAM is illegal in the US and many other countries. Can you explain why you think it should be legal to create something that is illegal to possess or distribute?

Why? To avoid using Google search. It's been an inferior search product for years. Last time I used the default launcher on a pixel, I couldn't change it to a better search product, so I changed launcher.

Most hobby and small business sites can easily run on a $5-10/mo VPS. If you need a bit more, hetzner server auctions should suffice. It's always safer to use a fixed cost service, instead of the cloud hosts that don't let you set a hard quota on spend.

I've noticed a pattern in the security reports for a project I'm involved in. After a CVE is released, for the next month or so there will likely be additional reports targeting the same (or similar) areas of the framework. There is definitely a competitive spirit amongst security researchers as they try to get more CVEs credited to them (and potentially bounties).

He's an addict. If he's not removed, this will keep happening.

Revoking visas and deporting University students and professors.

correct, their vote says "I'm okay with everything this candidate says they'll do."

You can't cherry pick policies from a candidate and pretend your vote is not culpable for all the harm it inflicts.