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Not to defend Claude here but the only instances this happened was when

1. It was said to be required (e.g. Searching through SEC)

2. Politeness policy (Wikimedia's bot policy and Crossref's "polite pool" ask automated clients for contact details)

So I think it wasn't because of malicious reasons as far as I can tell.

I did instruct Claude to never do it again except for the politeness policy. I'm assuming WikiMedia requested this so that they have someone to contact in case a bot overloads their servers

Faster, and that's it. If you don't need precision (like with prompting LLMs) the speed gain is massive (*for most people)

In a perfect world, sure. But realistically, people don't dig into the context. They see an arrest on your record and move to the next guy. Either that or, some automated system sees you checked 'yes I was arrested before' and filters you out automatically.

I don’t think it’s going to burst like how other people expect. The technology is already out there, when it loses steam people aren’t suddenly going to stop using it. I predit it’ll be more like the dot come crash where companies that can survive the downturn come out dominant.

I've tried this, it's honestly not worth the amount of time (and additional context) for the results. I've had more success prompting Claude with manageable and testable iterations.

Planning is good but get-shit-done just added too much planning in my opinion.

If you're looking for Claude Code alternatives, I would first suggest looking into pi.dev or opencode for your harness. And then for models, you can choose from OpenCode Go (IMO most cost effect at this moment), OpenRouter, or direct from DeepSeek. Better if you go the Kimi route IMO and just buy a subscription from kimi.com

I’ve been maining Kimi k2.6 through opencode go and openrouter for a week and I can say it’s the same experience as when I was maining Sonnet 3.5/4 late last year.

Not as good or as fast as Claude Code on Opus now but definitely enough for casual/hobby use. The best part is multiple choices for providers, if opencode gimps their service, I’ll switch

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Full-stack engineer, ~10 years. Currently at PayMongo (YC S19), shipping end-to-end — frontend, backend, infra, rollout.

- Rebuilt the merchant dashboard in Next.js

- Migrated paymongo.com off Webflow to Next.js + Ghost on AWS

- PIC on the React Native merchant app — OTP/KYC onboarding, USDC/USDT wallet with custody partners.

- Built the internal employee dashboard now used by Compliance, Finance, and PayOps.

Looking for remote full-stack roles. Bonus: payments/fintech.

Yeah, that's part of the "less features" I mentioned. I don't get any value from syncing shell history, but I can see why it's useful for some.

I tried atuin and then switched back to fzf[0]. It's less features but that's not necessarily a negative.

[0]https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

Do you have notifications turned on for your terminal app? I never received notifications from Claude Code until I moved to a new machine and remember explicitly allowing notifications from Ghostty.

He's pretty funny, but suffers from having to pump out more content for tiktok IMO. Krazam rarely uploads but it's always a banger

This is pretty cool. Care to share your Swift port?

Also PHP has Laravel Spark[0]. They basically bootstrapped a SaaS but for a price. Not sure if it's worth it, but it's from the guys who made Laravel, and everyone only has good things to say about that so...

[0] https://spark.laravel.com

I think it's a lot less obvious here than on Reddit you could hover over a username and see it.

Also there's two versions of the Samantha voice. One is 11 mb (downloaded by default) and another is 152mb (have to download from settings). The improvement with the 150mb version is very noticeable

Did you try downloading the bigger Siri voices? I'm using English (US) Voices -> Siri -> Voice 5 (90mb)

I don't know where I found it, but I saw a job ad for a dev role that asked for an MBTI test first (it's about personality types thing like INFJ INFP etc).

Asking for this in a job for coding was... something else. And I thought leetcode was all I had to study

This topic has always interested me. For people looking for a free alternative (free for Apple users), I recommend looking into iOS and MacOS spoken content under Accessibility [0]

It's a bit finicky at times but the pros are

1. Free

2. It works on anything on your iPhone, iPad or Mac screen

3. Apple's Siri voices are actually really good! (Better than Speechify voices)

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-ph/guide/iphone/iph96b214f0/ios

Started looking late November and started tracking my applications in January.

I have applied to a total of 46 positions within a month. This has led to six interviews, several of which I received no response, 13 formal rejections, and one job offer which I declined (The decline was due to the position being advertised as a developer role, yet the recruiter mentioned that about 50% of the duties would involve support tasks)

Seeing this thread gives me some relief. At least it's not just me but a broader trend across the whole industry

I’m assuming it’s this https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... (no pun intended)

> goofy mashup fun

Heh, not sure if pun intended but this made me giggle

This may go against the whole ethos of using neovim, but I would suggest giving LazyVim[0] a try.

- Dead simple to install

- Sane defaults

- IDE like out of the box

- Still feels like VIM

- Configurable

- Actions are discoverable (press space and a menu pops up with all the possible shortcuts)

- Good enough docs

Before I moved to LazyVim I always used VSC with the vim plugin installed before I took the full plunge and went all in on LazyVim (I don't care for vim itself but I like the motions).

It was also the sweet spot for me, I don't like configuring my tools for work but I like using well designed tools and discovering things along the way

[0] https://www.lazyvim.org

Reddit itself is monetized, but the people writing the review or suggesting products most likely weren't paid to recommend stuff. Not that there aren't paid shills on reddit, but as long as your BS meter is decent, a quick peek at the poster's profile can confirm whether the suggestions are legit.

It's a bit of work to weed out real testimonies but if you can collect a bunch of reviews and use your own judgement as a final filter. I think that's better than just clicking any of the "Top 10 <product>" sites that google shows on the first page.

The standard templating in Go has been good enough for my small projects, and I usually avoid adding libraries if I can help it. But seeing this makes me want to try it just to see how it compares.

More like PHP and Pug, but in Go. As someone who likes server-rendered websites but prefers Go over PHP, I like this approach.

Flexbox froggy got me into learning flexbox and now I find out there's a grid counterpart?!