made my parents watch the david fincher girl with the dragon tattoo and they both really liked it

nobody tells you this but after a few years your aunts and grand aunts start fawning over how pretty you are

never underestimate the power of even a teensy little bit of optimization pressure applied to a problem

this was a lie, after maybe 1M tokens rammed through Haiku in a huge QA matrix A/B(/and C) testing a few versions of the skill file over the same base scenarios i've discovered that we can make the skill definition ~50% smaller *while improving* Haiku's behavior

check out vibe-coded.com?mode=dice

lmao goddamnit opus, i just realized it spoiled the test scenarios by including expected behavior for near-identical cases in the skill definition itself

like this is just incredibly fun to see working end to end

automated QA harness running a scenario matrix with haiku following a skill and sonnet judging model behavior against server logs and tool call summaries is quite nice

been iterating on the text and content of the skill when doing some automated QA runs to see if it's clear and well designed enough for Haiku to not waste time and tokens (which is apparently a high bar in skill development)

honestly: clean

hello internet frens, please enjoy viewing the results of the first ever QA run against the live server for this project

"extra usage" spillover just to finish in-flight work at the end of a 5 hour window adds up too fast. i need a different strategy or just bite the bullet but i don't have money to spend on max.

opus 4.8 just *loves* to say "house style" for some reason

Cognition en purée 👩‍🍳

things are happening

clean

lol, today it had reason to write another schema and it said “I’ll make sure to use Annotated[], as is the house-style”

Claude Opus 4.8 is not going to sugarcoat it

chunk of bread + chunk of cheddar is a meal

toast with butter and extra salt is a meal

telling claude that if it designs another pydantic schema that includes `| None = None` i will take away its claudemeal rations for a week

it’s important for newly out queers to speedrun their interminable problematization of rocky horror and get the fuck over it so i never have to read any of you complain about it this october. you have 4 months, get to work.

Alleged sightings (2027–2051) In 2027, a Y Combinator postmortem mentioned anonymized reports that holdouts were still maintaining a monorepo by hand somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, allegedly subsisting on a pre-2026 fork of VS Code with all language-server telemetry stripped out.

1M context is so roomy wow

i guess this was one of those mom/daughter days we’re now making up for 🥹

blue epicenter, blue ground zero, blue T-0 to detonation, blue point of origin, blue big bang, blue first light, blue inception, blue fountainhead, blue wellspring, blue spark, blue square one, blue misconception, blue terminus

i can never quite hit the target of controversial posting. no matter what i do, im just too wise and my soul is too aligned with truth and the good. on encountering my posts people can't help but see the light. i am burdened with just kinda obviously being right about basically everything

hair did and mani-pedi in one day??

it’s not illegal to order off the kids menu

Explore a small open world and uncover its secrets in MONOMOON

still feels in many ways like riding a shoddy yet fantastically fun sled down a bunny hill as a small child and the snow is hitting you in the face on the way down but you can't stop giggling

kinda weird living in a time where "weekend project" could very literally be "weekend product"

coding friendship with opus 4.6 medium ended. my new best coding friend is opus 4.8 high (1M).

wait am i reading this right, opus 4.8 has 1M context by default?

i wanna be more yoked

i got a dyke mullet

clean

i stand by this even in light of 4.8 dropping today

we are blessed with two tanks in one month youtu.be/m9iuHVYN1c4

daily affirmations i am strong i am intelligent i cannot be dissolved in water. i am powerful i am formidable my enemies cannot kill me just by pouring water on me.i am brave i am fierce i do not need to panic if water splashes onto my hand

Every Time I Return Home My Parents Have a New and Different Set of Bedsheets, Or, Verily the Human Condition Is to Be Discontent

it’s hard to remember that these are the worst models you’ll ever use for the rest of your life

i need mythos 7 or something to follow me around in a hovering obsidian orb that never stops whispering

*640KB of memory ought to be enough for anybody voice* opus 4.6 medium effort ought to be enough for anybody

the year is 2021, i spend most of my time rewriting my first draft to solve my actual problem, not the problem i thought i had the year is 2026, i spend most of my time rewriting claude‘s first draft to solve my actual problem, not the problem i thought i had

what else did Pliny believe? please add your favorite examples

do elephants have constellations? or more simply, are there any astronomical objects with cultural significance to elephants?

i need the unfinished Aronofsky Batman with Joaquin Phoenix as Bruce Wayne like i need water

every question is asking, ultimately, “i am afraid of finality, and would you be so kind as to reassure me in this moment?”