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Drupon··on Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM
That's a lot of system specific jargon. I can understand being befuddled by this if you are unfamiliar with system details, especially given that you don't always need to care; future agents need to care.

Little tip if you're vibe(ish) coding: Use some sort of memory system (be it markdown files, wiki, lightweight issue tracker, etc.) and tell it to put full context for feature work in the ticket, enough that a new session can work the ticket, including acceptance criteria. Then have the implementation agent do a /goal to drain the work items until they'll done/closed (only close when acceptance criteria is met) or blocking human interaction, putting all important context from the work into comments on the work item during closing.

It will pile all its dense verbiage into those work items when it closes them, and, in my experience, will only bubble up significant questions and notes to you the user if they are significantly important.

You don't have to think about all that shit you posted. Future coding agents do. So I also make sure it searches for related work items before creating a new one. I use Fable 5 xhigh to plan the work items (costs very little because there aren't many output tokens) and Opus 5 med/high to drain the work item queue.

I had it build a significant system at work last week in my spare time, enough that it would have been 4 or 5 sprints worth of work. Cost me ~$250 in Opus 5 credits (on my company dime, I would have used a subscription or cheaper model and it would have been much less) and ~$40 in Fable 5 credits. You know how much Opus 5 ruminating on system design I had to read? Literally none. I saved my time reading things for reading the code it produced in the places I knew would be need to be modular and extensible, so that I made sure future work wouldn't have a lot of tech debt to pay when it came time to extend it.

Drupon··on Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM
Not talking to you dawg
Drupon··on Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM
What about that made you upset
Drupon··on Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM
s/because/that is
Drupon··on Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM
Honestly? Yeah, I think it's a skill issue. Some of us are out here having no trouble parsing its verbiage.
Drupon··on Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM
Give me an example of Opus 5 because verbose, convoluted, and most importantly, "obscure"
Drupon··on Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM
I guess my point is that when people are regularly reading dense and challenging material, they can absorb information quickly. It's a literacy gap. Nothing about Claude's output should slow anyone down who did the readings in their upper and higher education coursework, particularly if they continue to read to keep their mind sharp. Based on the examples of "inscrutable" text I've seen, I would be shocked if the average Claude user complaining about this reads a single novel (that's not sci-fi/fantasy written for teenagers) a year.
Drupon··on The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding
Oh no they made me into a backpack rapper lmao
Drupon··on Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM
I'm surprised by this reaction to Claude's verbiage recently. I don't have any issue immediately understanding what it's saying, but then again I read regularly and a lot of the people I know complaining think it's an accomplishment in literacy to get through Dungeon Crawler Carl.
Drupon··on The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding
Thought terminating cope from people unwilling to accept that they live in a nation full of cruel oinking swine, enough to control the government at the moment. No, they must be foreign assets. Thinking that way makes it easier to ignore the fact that the American individualist (read: selfish and cruel) ideology is baked into every aspect of the country's propaganda. Much easier to ignore it, write hagiographies that have the greed that drove the smugglers and wealthy elite to found this country's morals replaced by rapping stage actors. Craft narratives that the crumbling of the fine character of a nation practicing racial segregation until only half a century ago is actually the crafty infiltration of the savage slavic mind.
Drupon··on A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer
>NPC

>mog

Touch grass

Drupon··on When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs
Lookin at you, Terry Tao
Drupon··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
You would think that no one would be stupid enough to use Fable or Sol for small one-off tasks like filtering tweets, but AI has opened up a lot of avenues for stupid people to ship code. It's only going to get worse.
Drupon··on Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
I'm doing just fine; no need for the passive aggressive bitchiness. Just say what you mean.
Drupon··on Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
Why would it not be
Drupon··on Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
Sorry, I'm not here to talk about your feelings. I am not "emotionally hurt", nor should you be. This is HackerNews and you're a grown ass adult (I assume). If you disagree with me, then feel free to outline your disagreement, or just ignore and move on.
Drupon··on Nerd culture is murdering intellectuals
It seems like the author's point (which would have been easier to parse out had it not been placed at the end of the piece) is directed "nerd" culture's storytelling, which I would describe as being the kind of genre fiction that children consumed in the 50s (limited to comics and pulp novels), that teens consumed later in the century, and that, for the first time over the past couple of decades, is now viewed as entertainment for adults. "Intellectual" here would be someone who is well read and engages with challenging material.

The argument seems to be that this stuff, whose elevation into adult consumption involves situating itself firmly in the realm of middlebrow, lures intelligent and curious young people growing up. But, because there's very little outright critique of it as ultimately a fairly puerile type of content, these young people are never really pushed to try for more challenging stuff that aims at something higher than telling a titillating story. Why? Well for one, it's a self perpetuating situation. Everyone who reads YA fiction knows it's intended for children, but whenever that's said about these middlebrow works, people get defensive and react with insecurity ("You're just pretentious!", "Let people enjoy things!", etc.) I've found that readers of Sanderson's work are shocked when they first hear that people outside of the doorstop fantasy genre often think of it as childish and unremarkable. MCU fans were extremely upset when people like Scorsese leveled these critiques at those films. So people often just avoid pissing off the mob (which usually results in censure-by-vote on sites like reddit where the "Let people enjoy things" mindset not coincidentally has the strongest hold) and keep their opinion to themselves.

I can't disagree too much about the decline of literate intellectuals, but I'm not sure how much this is due to this nerd culture. I think the average person has always consumed primarily escapist slop, or, at best, middlebrow staples like Hemingway. The collapse of education in the US, in which students are often given as many chances to avoid reading as they could want, is likely far more responsible in most books being read belonging to a few low brow genres (romantasy porn for women, lengthslop fantasy novels for men, ghost written political memoirs, etc.) than anything else. The days of books like Naked Lunch being well known enough to cause major controversy are long past, as are the days of concert audiences critical enough to boo Glenn Gould's torpid tempo on Brahms 1 or cause a ruckus at the outrageously novelty of Rite of Spring.

Drupon··on qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work
>We take contributions as human-written text, not code — see CONTRIBUTING.md. Describe the change you'd like informally in a .txt or .md file in adrs/, and if we're aligned we'll handle the implementation. Report vulnerabilities privately — see SECURITY.md, not a public issue.

Starting to think people were right when they talked about our industry itself having an AI psychosis problem.

Drupon··on Chatto is now open source
How is that fascinating? That's what makes up most of the tedious Show HN posts these days.
Drupon··on Resetting Xbox
HackerNews is where I find informed commentary on tech stuff because places like reddit are hollowed out and useless for it. I don't care one bit about cretins like VCs.
Drupon··on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%
The majority of people with this mindset should not go to college and should just get a trade job or manufacturing job like they did 100 years ago. People were like this a few decades ago as well when I got my degree. I didn't have consistently great classmates until honors and accelerated grad courses in my 3rd and 4th year, along with various domain specific student orgs like groups for hardware hacking, computer security, etc.

Obviously this can't happen without some structural change (virtually impossible in the US due to its political ossification and indefinite deadlock) because a degree is now just a way of gatekeeping the middle class, but dull and incurious minds made ideal manual laborers in the past, and, at some point, we lost sight of that and started rotting our corporate world out with them.

Drupon··on Resetting Xbox
>150M at 5B revenue is not great: that's 3% margin!

Oy vey maybe this kind of money grubbery is not good for our society.

Drupon··on Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
I'm aware and was expressing my disappointment in that kind of flaming comment coming from someone who's supposed to be the adult in the room.
Drupon··on Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
This comment was unnecessary and very distracting from a far more interesting discussion in the replies to the commenter you are attempting to condescend.
Drupon··on "Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"
An honest to god article full of em dashes that's not because it was AI but because it was a human using them as a crutch to get around crafting sentences that flow naturally. Almost brings a tear to my eye.
Drupon··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
Crazy to see the Twitter behavior here of really smart, well conveyed top level comments replied to by weird propaganda pushing bottom feeders.
Drupon··on India's surprise baby bust
>Cost of a great apartment by 1920 standards is affordable to anyone before they are 30, the problem is that they want to add lots of nice but non-essential things to that house driving the price up.

Absolute bullshit drivel because there's no GrEAt ApARmenTs by 1920 STanDArDs available in any major cities like there were in the 20s. Everyone has to rent a GreaT ApARtMENt bY 1920 StAnDaRDs instead because they just LOVE renting GrREAT ApaRTmeNTs BY 1920 StanDARds instead of buying them for the equivalent of a car payment today.

Drupon··on India's surprise baby bust
>due to its Orthodox Jewish population

and its use of United States tax dollars to fund social services that make it possible to raise their broods that American citizens simply don't get.

Drupon··on Let's Buy Spirit Air
>I shop at walmart compared to whole foods and other "better" chains for similar reasons. "great value" as walmart's motto goes, it isn't about the price, it's about the value you get for what you pay for. Spirit was the "great value" airline.

Yeah it's not a secret that you can get by in life on the cheap if you have cheap, trashy tastes.

Drupon··on The 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in Color
>So a thousand civilians weren't shot by death squads in civilian towns

Correct. The civilian death count was below a thousand and quite good by IDF/US military collateral damage standards. Compare to the hostage rescue operation the IDF and US carried out to get that one bimbo woman (who was immediately raped by an Israeli after being rescued btw) that killed over 100 civilians.

>babies weren't kidnapped

Correct

>women weren't raped

Correct

>houses weren't burned with people inside

I'm sure many were, yes. Again, fairly acceptable by collateral standards.

>bodies weren't found dismembered

Maybe there were, but there's been no evidence posted of it.

>I think you should really investigate your sources of information as this is approaching an alternative reality.

Nothing I've posted is controversial or hard to verify.

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