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albert_e··on Claude Platform on AWS
Are you sure those credits apply to this usage. Many forms of AWS credits dont cover usage of Claude models on Amazon Bedrock for instance, as all of them are billed as third party / marketplace consumption.
albert_e··on Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES
Brilliant satire. So many gems.

> CI passed because the malware installed volkswagen

We need this to ocassionally make us stop and think about what we are doing.

albert_e··on The One Dollar Counterfeiter
I meant the cost of counterfeiting

If I hypothetically set out to create a single fake one dollar bill that can pass for real ... i would have to spend a lot more than one dollar on the materials ro pull it off, surely?

albert_e··on Task Paralysis and AI
Resonates with me.

In a paradoxical way, the amount of stuff you can get done in an hour now is like a firehose -- which we rarely experienced in our earlier life -- which can be overwhelming to my brain. So I subconsciously resist starting a session because I never feel fully rested, calm, and focussed to take all that and process it well.

There are also 10x more "active" projects now -- and prioritization and choosing between them at every moment is still a struggle. The tempation to do the fun and novel thing and avoid important but familar boring chores pops up every step of the way and can derail you for days.

I am still trying to create a system that works -- now using the very tools. Long journey ahead.

EDIT: My experience --

I was paying for both Claude Code as well as ChatGPT Pro ...but was heavily almost exlucively using CC for coding work because it was so good. After CC started hammering the session and weekly quotas lately -- I tentatively srated using Codex and find that it seems equally good and almost indistnguishable for my work, and ocassionally shines by one-shotting some tasks. This helped me stay afloat with just 2x$20 spend per month without feeling held-up for ransom. Also never hit codex limits till now.

Leaving a 5 hour session quota unused towards the end, or worse not even starting a 5 hour session clock, was a source of constant anxiety -- that I am wasting precious quota getting nothing done. I think I am getting over that now.

albert_e··on The One Dollar Counterfeiter
Is it possible that he might have spent almost $1 in materials and labor and allocated capital expenses on equipment ... to create each of these counterfeits.

Attempting this today would probably surely cost that much in today's dollars?

EDIT: on a second thought ..this almost feels like "proof of work" for currency :)

albert_e··on RAM prices are forcing companies to choose higher prices, worse specs, or both
If a brand decides to release a budget version of their expensive product with a value-for-money proposition ... that is not shrinkflation IMO. (whether that value-for-money proposition is mere marketing hype or well received and is closer to reality ... is secondary)

If seemingly the "same" product -- in this example say 'MacBook Pro' base model for current year -- delivers less goodness, less value compared to its price year-on-year. If the price appears to stay more or less the same but the product is made weaker in service of higher margins for the seller. THAT would typically qualify as shrinkflation ... in my understanding.

This is more objectively measurable in comsumer goods where you can see the packaging being tinkered with over time so consumer thinks they are getting the same SKU but this year's packaging has less of the product tghan last year's, at similar price point so it doesnt register as price inflation.

albert_e··on Mouse Pointer as a Mere Mortal
I would not be happy with mouse pointer hijacking. Seems to belong in the same territory as scroll-hijacking but worse. The example case here could have been served by simply highlighting the area of interest in the UI with a red circle or a flashing pointer, whatever does the trick -- even though that may be distracting too.

There are a lot of interactions on a PC where user inputs land in the wrong place.

Claude Code and Codex in their various avatars allow us to type the next prompt while the agent is still working and responding on the earlier one. But this constantly runs into a permission prompt from running session -- either interrupting or worse entering a response to the permission prompt unintentionally.

Even during normal prompting slash commands interfere annoyingly with normal use of the slash key (i use a slash to indicate a list of two or more choices sometimes when i write).

Permission popups and confirmation dialogs that appear unexpectedly and swallow our keystrokes, spacebar and enter key hits mid sentence have always annoyed me.

Laggy devices, and resource hungry sluggish UIs compound this problem.

albert_e··on VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
Question -- is this a general feature that detects which AI agent was used to edit your code (Claude, Codex, etc) and inserts THAT agent's name into the commit message's trailer. Or this pnly detects and inserts (Github) Copilot as a co-author?
albert_e··on VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
Given that there are 536 different types of "Copilot" under Microsoft umbrella, I am surprised they did not distinguish between GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Copilot here.
albert_e··on Where the goblins came from
If a tiny misconfiguration of reward system can cause such noticeable annoyance ...

What dangers lurk beneath the surface.

This is not funny.

albert_e··on Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight
we cant view without a login anymore? i dont have a instal login but used tobe able to watch single videos shared directly with just a login nag
albert_e··on We decreased our LLM costs with Opus
Interesting - thanks!

Not sure when this was added.

I found "open" feature requests in GitHub asking for this exact thing

albert_e··on We decreased our LLM costs with Opus
I want to create a "harness" that does this with Claude Code and other expensive agents.

Buffer user prompts, use conversation history and repo state as context -- and run a local model or a cheap and fast cloud model like Haiku to determine the optimal way to address the user's ask, reframe the query with better context (user reviews and approves if needed) and THEN let expensive models like Opus have a go at it.

If we are operating within Anthropic ecosystem with Haiku and Opus -- this sort of logic should ideally be doable within Claude Code as harness. Currently skills cannot be tagged to different models. Ideally we should be able to say -- for trivial tasks, the skill should always use Haiku even if invoked from a session with Opus xhigh.

albert_e··on GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
is $10 Pro monthly subscription a pre-requisite before i can purchase $10 in API credits?

PS: i would have loved if I can directly buy $10 in credits and be free to spend it as quickly or as leisurly as I want -- without any monthly expiry or fixed recurring payments

albert_e··on Can You Find the Comet?
Why are satellite trails not continuous lines

Is the camera exposure taking a few seconds of break between takes that get stacked later with some "missing" moments in between?

albert_e··on Flipdiscs
Tetris seems like a good fit -- given the frame to frame changes are minimal adjacent pixels, the responsiveness should be acceptable
albert_e··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
> Guy couldn’t even bother to write his own damn post mortem.

Are you ... from the future ;)

albert_e··on An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
> The challenge is: when you let a session idle for >1 hour, when you come back to it and send a prompt, it will be a full cache miss, all N messages. We noticed that this corner case led to outsized token costs for users.

I dont agree with this being characterized as a "corner case".

Isn't this how most long running work will happen across all serious users?

I am not at my desk babysitting a single CC chat session all day. I have other things to attend to -- and that was the whole point of agentic engineering.

Dont CC users take lunch breaks?

How are all these utterly common scenarios being named as corner cases -- as something that is wildly out of the norm, and UX can be sacrificed for those cases?

albert_e··on Claude Design
is this the Figma/Canva/Powerpoint/Keynote killer?
albert_e··on Claude Opus 4.7 Model Card
Does the model card fit in the model's context :)
albert_e··on YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts
Is there a way to do it at network level.

There are too many devices with different accounts and apps and guest access ... like YouTube app on Smart TVs.

albert_e··on Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
So a side effect of this is -- even at 1 hour caching -- ...

If you run out of session quota too quickly and need to wait more than an hour to resume your work ... you are paying even more penalty just to resume your work -- a penalty you wouldnt have needed if session quota was not so restrictive in first place, and which in turn causes you to burn through next session quota even faster.

Seems like a vicious cycle that made the UX very poor. I remember Claude Code with Pro became virtually unuseable in middle of March with session quota expiring within first hour or less for me -- which was wildly different experience from early March.

albert_e··on Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors
This is how it manifests on Claude Code terminal and desktop for me --

API Error: 529 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"overloaded_error","message":"Overloaded"},"request_id": "xxxxxxx"}

albert_e··on Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
Experienced this -- was repeatedly directing CC to use Claude in Chrome extension to interact with a webpage and it was repeatedly invoking Playwright MCP instead.
albert_e··on Twice this week, I have come across embarassingly bad data
Ha ha. That was quick. Well done :)
albert_e··on Twice this week, I have come across embarassingly bad data
Concluding passage:

> Authors should have their work proof read

Agreed.

Opening passage:

> A quick plot of the latitude and longitude shows some clear outliners

"outliners"

Ouch!

albert_e··on People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
Is this a reaction in part to the threat posed by the launch of very affordable Macbook Neo; and partly the rise of AI Agents like Cowork that will drive massive demand and scale of sanboxes and virtual machines and Windows OS is not a great fit for that today.
albert_e··on Hacking old hardware by renaming to .zip [video]
Has anyone does this for VIZIO app that controls among other things their soundbars (circa 2019)

I moved to a different country and the app is not on google play store in the new geography.

Even when it is installed somehow it is absolutely unreliable in pairing or controlling the device.

Wish I had time to go on a quest and reverse engineer and build my own better controller.

albert_e··on Don't YOLO your file system
Can we have a hardware level implementation of git (the idea of files/data having history preserved. Not necessarily all bells and whistles.) ...in a future where storage is cheap.
albert_e··on 90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars
shouldn't a serious heatmap (or any comparative graph for that matter) normalize the stat being displayed versus the baseline population in that bucket?

in otherwords, plot the percentage or average metric and not the absolute metric.

e.g. number of lotto winners per thousand people living in that grid, percentage of starred repos as a percentage of all repos, per capita alcohol consumption, average screen-time etc.

Edit: unless ofcourse the point of the heatmap is to show the population distribution itself. In which case the metric would be number of people per square kilometer or some such.

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