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Not to shoot down your comment with sarcasm, I'm being really honest: I changed my shower gel with an expensive one this week, and it really had an unexpected, exciting effect. Small stuff can really have consequences much bigger than themselves.

That said, if you ever decide solve the tidying the toys problem, start a kickstarter, I pledge to pledge support! :D

Claude makes more detailed plans that seem better if you just skim them, but when analyzed, has a lot of errors, usually.

It compensates for most during implementation if you make it use TDD by using superpower et al, or just telling it to do so.

GPT 5.4 makes more simple plans (compared to superpowers - a plugin from the official claude plugin marketplace - not the plan mode), but can better fill the details while implementing.

Plan mode in Claude Code got much better in the last months, but the lacking details cannot be compensated by the model during the implementation.

So my workflow has been:

Make claude plan with superpowers:brainstorm, review the spec, make updates, give the spec to gpt, usually to witness grave errors found by gpt, spec gets updates, another manual review, (many iterations later), final spec is written, write the plan, gpt finds mind boggling errors, (many iterations later), claude agent swarm implements, gpt finds even more errors, I find errors, fix fix fix, manual code review and red tests from me, tests get fixed (many iterations later) finally something usable with stylistic issues at most (human opinion)!

This happens with the most complex features that'd be a nightmare to implement even for the most experienced programmers of course. For basic things, most SOTA modals can one-shot anyway.

Plus plan doesn't get the pro model, which is (AFAICT) the same 5.4 model but thinks like a lot.

5.4, in my own testing, was almost always ahead of Opus 4.6 for reviews and planning. I'm on plus plan on openai, so I couldn't test it so deeply. Anyone who had more experience on both could perhaps chime in? Pros/cons compared to Opus? I'm invested in Claude ecosystem but the recent quality and session limits decrease have me on the edge.

The book doesn't support anything in "their" favor. The idea boils down to nobody being "them".

Related part from Wikipedia:

> Becker argues that the conflict between contradictory immortality projects (particularly in religion) is a major source of the violence and misery in the world such as wars, genocide, racism, nationalism and so forth since immortality projects that contradict one another threaten one's core beliefs and sense of security

There you go.

I meant biking accidents this product is obviously trying to solve.

> And cars have no business being on other roads as long as highways exist ;)

Biking lanes are not comparable to highways. Where I'm living, if you bike on car lanes when biking lanes exist, or if you bike on sidewalks at all, you get a hefty fine depending on the situation and if you possess one, you get points on your driving license.

Exceptions are turning, leaving the road, the lane being blocked by a clueless driver etc. obviously.

Cars are also not allowed on biking lanes, neither are pedestrians. Same exceptions apply.

Highways are more comparable to railroads, maybe.

The text is from Wikipedia, which summarizes the ideas from the book, both of which have been linked/referenced in the comment already.

Comments on the Israel situation are my thoughts.

Is there anything else I missed?

Sorry I didn't write "don't have trees in the middle of the cycling lanes", I should have been more clear.

Also "don't let the restaurants cover the pavement with tables" follows the same logic.

Perhaps, planners should travel the route three times for every permitted mode of transportation, including walking, biking, and driving.

Draw a line, say this is for bicycles, pedestrians and cars have no business here, and bikes have no business being on any other lane as long as these exist.

When bikes have to go through areas where people walk freely, they need to limit their speed to a walking pace.

People should not wear headphones (noise-cancelling or not) when going through traffic as pedestrians. Take them off when crossing!

People should not hear loud music when driving - max is normal speaking voice level. Bike drivers should never hear any music, let alone wearing headphones. Behind-ear speakers on low could be a compromise.

Hey, we just solved 90% of the accidents.

Pasting from Wikipedia:

> Becker argues that a basic duality in human life exists between the physical world of objects and biology, and a symbolic world of human meaning. Thus, since humanity has a dualistic nature consisting of a physical self and a symbolic self, we are able to transcend the dilemma of mortality by focusing our attention mainly on our symbolic selves, i.e. our culturally based self esteem, which Becker calls "heroism": a "defiant creation of meaning" expressing "the myth of the significance of human life" as compared to other animals. This counters the personal insignificance and finitude that death represents in the human mind.

> Such symbolic self-focus takes the form of an individual's "causa sui project", (sometimes called an "immortality project", or a "heroism project"). A person's "causa sui project" acts as their immortality vessel, whereby they subscribe to a particular set of culturally-created meanings and through them gain personal significance beyond that afforded to other mortal animals. This enables the individual to imagine at least some vestige of those meanings continuing beyond their own life-span; thus avoiding the complete "self-negation" we perceive when other biological creatures die in nature.

You can find big similarities such as the promised land as the immortality vessel, heroism as a response to historical trauma and the ongoing attacks on their sovereignty, and the immortality project would be the nation-state. Becker goes on to categorize all of this similar to a mental illness. You can read the wikipedia page here, I find it very helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death

TL;DR: If you look through Becker's lens, you start to realize how stupid such wars and expansionist ideals seem. People should focus on what exists now and stop chasing projects that'd span beyond their lifetimes while making life today worse.

Stop the immortality project and stop the massive suffering happening right now. People should really read "The Denial of Death".

What people also underestimate is the new power of the index.php that comes from the LLMs.

Tell claude to create a php backend to your portfolio html template, drag the generated file to the cheapest server, and you already have a custom CMS.

Even if openly stated, why would they be comparing to a previous generation if not for deception?

Laziness? Lack of time? It's not like the latest generation of the SOTA models were released yesterday.

> european woke bureaucratic bullshit

This may have been an attempt at rage-bait, but putting woke and bureaucracy next to each other makes it actually hilarious.

I used to hang out there too. However, describing me as 'fine' would require a lengthy debate over definitions.

It would be marvelous if they used a drawing of a spider.

https://27bslash6.com/overdue.html

But in search results, you only find the sites that game the system to maximize their profits, while millions of other well-meaning sites get little to no traffic, and eventually people lose interest in maintaining an online presence. They move toward big silos like Instagram, platforms that just use their content to attract more ads.

Ads do break the internet, or let's say, fundamentally change the model of how it works to the detriment of most people

I usually ask Gemini to review the spec as well. Sometimes it catches things I missed even after going through a few times.

This might be the "Steve, Don't Eat It!" version of the xkcd workflow comic.

Whatever you ship, steve will eat, and some steves will develop an addiction.

I don't agree with your first point. We are surely writing less code, and it will keep getting less and less. At some point it will reduce to a single run function that will make the universe and everything work and it will be called via a button, and that will be the modern definition of writing code: Click the button. Not a lot of keys with weird alphabet thingies on them.

You are however right on your second point because I'm damn good at clicking buttons.

IMHO the best way is to let a SOTA model have a look at bunch of random samples and write you tools to analyze those.

I think, no model, SOTA or not, has neither the context nor the attention to be able to do anything meaningful with huge amount of logs.

Big part of these differences may be the system prompts and/or the harness.

You don't need a whole server to tell agents that, I think you can just write a skill file or two and be done with it.

I had had a client cancel a job when they heard it's not going to use Wordpress. It was going to be a dashboard showing statistics (air quality, room bookings etc.) from their facility.

As an outsider, the extent and depth of the contradictions are really fascinating, OTOH repeated to the point that nothing surprises anyone anymore.

I keep thinking what's the psychology behind this that makes it work and if they are mostly in on the act or if they really rely on many "useful idiots" like their political opponents keep suggesting.

The discussion around useful idiots became concerning for me as I'm learning to respect people even in the most "don't look up"-like situations, trying to understand their individual motives without judging them. The main problem in political discussions, I figured, is the fact that we have 2-3 groups we try to fit people into.

Wow, I made that digress quickly :)

They have them: https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli/releases

A lot of people who are not web devs use it, that's what I see. I even saw some mainframe developers use npx to call some tool on some data dump.

Also, this is a web project anyway. Google Workspace is web based, so while there is a good chance that the users aren't web developers, it's a better chance that they have npm than anything else.

In the case that they don't, releases can be downloaded directly too: https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli/releases

Yeah that's why we're replacing you with someone who generated a claude skill which does that! /s

Now that you mentioned it, these macs could theoretically also run crysis if it supported arm and such! They should add that to the marketing material :)

Tangeant: Why is integrating with teams SO difficult?

I started parsing its system logs to create entries in our system automatically to book my times - just not todeal with their silly REST api requirements.