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It’s hard to argue with you about that. I think you’re right about the tip composition being the issue. Also, there’s definitely an alien feel to APP3.

Meanwhile, claude CLI has so many huge bugs that break the experience. Memory leaks, major cpu usage, tool call errors that require you to abandon a conversation, infinite loops, context leaks, flashing screens.. so many to list.

I love the feature set of Claude Code and my entire workflow has been fine tuned around it, but i had to to codex this month. Hopefully the Claude Code team spends some time to slow down and focus on bugs.

Seems like you should try and get a replacement

The horrible thumping is purely a fit issue. The solution to the thumping when running is to either size down the tips or to slightly dislodge the tips from your ear.

It’s not ideal, I’ll grant you that.

While we may have some overlap in issues, I would say that the Airpods Pro 3 are incredible. I’ve ditched my Airpods Max entirely. The noise cancellation works too well, the sleep detection is a godsend, and the battery life is so good. I use my airpods to sleep. before, i’d always wake up to dead airpods. now, they have like 70% batteries when i wake up, because the sleep detection kicks in.

Reading that post, all i felt what a splendid luxury it is to live in the united states and be paid much better than those in other nations because of the country’s brand.

Github Copilot is likely running models at or close to cost, given that Azure serves all those models. I haven't used Copilot in several months so I can't speak to its performance. My perception back then was that its underperformance relative to peers was because Microsoft was relatively late to the agentic coding game.

The reason why OP is getting terrible results is because he's using Cursor, and Cursor is designed to ruthlessly prune context to curtail costs.

Unlike the model providers, Cursor has to pay the retail price for LLM usage. They're fighting an ugly marginal price war. If you're paying more for inference than your competitors, you have to choose to either 1) deliver equal performance as other models at a loss or 2) economize by way of feeding smaller contexts to the model providers.

Cursor is not transparent on how it handles context. From my experience, it's clear that they use aggressive strategies to prune conversations to the extent that it's not uncommon that cursor has to reference the same file multiple times in the same conversation just to know what's going on.

My advice to anyone using Cursor is to just stop wasting your time. The code it generates creates so much debt. I've moved on to Codex and Claude and I couldn't be happier.

Your honor, the defendant is semantically guilty!

Are there any good papers floating out there?

or perhaps it means that they plan to expand their TV offering so as to merit being something more than just a "plus"

i don't know if i like the rebranding or not – it's such a minor thing that idk if it even warrants an opinion. But they should now be obliged to next rebrand Apple Carplay to Apple Car.

The current trend started when people noticed that sam altman doesn't capitalize sentences, primarily in tweets.

In longer form, I do think people should feel bad for writing like this. Like you said, capitalization has genuine utility and, without them, it makes the blog post a nightmare to read.

Case in point: even Sam doesn't write blog posts like this https://blog.samaltman.com

Yep. Most MCP servers are best repackaged as a cli tool, and telling the LLM to invoke `toolname --help` to learn how to use it at runtime. The primary downside is that they LLM will have a lower proclivity to invoke those tools unless explicitly reminded to.

If you do like rolling your own MCP servers, I've had great success recently refactoring a bunch of my own to consume fewer tokens by, instead of creating many different tools, consolidating the tools and passing through different arguments.

Claude's research mode is by far the worst one I've used, I consider it nearly useless. I cannot trust it specifically because Anthropic has a policy of refusing to use reddit for anything, whether it be as a research source or in claude chrome.

Reddit may not be the greatest source for hard science, but for things like "tell me what shoes people are finding helpful for their plantar fasciitis" I appreciate reddit's anecdata of reddit over every other source.

> Jobs excelled at taking a niche product category and reinventing it for the masses.

It was more than this. He understood how to communicate to both customers/employees why what they bought/worked on mattered. For all the stories of his assholery, very few people bring up that the same people who complained about his assholery also acknowledge that he brought the best work out of them.

I think everything I know about Apple's culture under jobs was that steve let his lieutenants have at each other. That culture died when Forstall was booted from the company (one of apple's biggest mistakes, IMO). Tim Cook gives people their space. It's why Jony Ive and Alan Dye have been allowed to run amok, with almost zero checks and balances.

I'm using A|B as a blanket term for things that make a company think it's improving by using the opinions of others in lieu of having an opinion themselves. Focus groups also fall into this category.

Somewhat related: I recently googled Steve's son, Reed, out of curiosity. I haven't thought to look his kids up since when he died.

Reed is a spitting image of Steve[0] - voice and all. Steve was a hero of mine since I was a kid (I don't care what your opinion is about having a hero, let alone having steve as one). Seeing reed talk made me wistful. I miss steve dearly.

It also reminded of the many things I miss about the Apple I grew up loving. Leadership with an opinion is one of them. And by opinion, I mean a leader who isn't a slave to the A|B test or to shareholders. Someone who cared deeply about his product and could communicate it in words that made me care.

0: edit here's a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHBZhruuQ44

Forgive me for living in a cave, but is there any reason to use Notion if you don’t need the collaboration features? My experience with Notion on an M2 MacBook Air (8 GB RAM) is that it brings the machine to its knees.

It strikes me that if Notion is a nice wrapper for a database, and the agent is being tasked with interfacing with that wrapper, why not skip the wrapper entirely? If they’re trying to offload most of your interaction with the application to an LLM agent, it seems like it doesn’t matter where the data lives. So why not use a Claude Code agent to do the same things for you locally?

Big worry indeed. What puzzles me is that, for all the claims of the death of monoculture, how is it that politics has resisted these fragmentations? How has Trump managed to consolidate power so strongly within the power? I don't keep up with politics, but I suspect even those in the know have no clue either.

Thanks for this link. I wonder how the USA would have fared with that one change in the sentence.

I think it's possible to be bothered by your claim, the extermination of palestinians, and the consolidation of executive power.

This is clearly bothersome, and this administration bothers me at a deep level. One open question I have is: how do we keep the temptation at bay for subsequent administrations, democratic or republican, from exercising unilateral power at such scale? Clearly it's to curtail the power of the executive, but I'm afraid that neither will resist the temptation to (over)correct or double down, respectively

Note: this has nothing to do with Gemini, Google's latest image editing model.

I’m glad to see another member of Club Forstall here. My biggest wish for Apple is to bring back Forstall. Letting him go was their biggest mistake.

No, it is possible. I just got it to write files both using Bash and its Write tools while in plan mode right now.

Wow, this project is absolutely stunning.

Insert something to the tune of: “never read files in slices. Instead, whenever accessing a file, you must read a file in entirety[..]” at the beginning of every conversation or whenever you’re down to burn more credits/get better results.

A great deal of claude stupidity is due to context engineering, specifically due to the fact that it tries its hardest to pick out just the slice of code it needs to fulfill the task.

A lot of the annoying “you’re absolute right!” come from CC incrementally discovering that you have more than 10 lines of code in that file that pertains to your task.

I don’t believe conspiracies about dumbed down models. Its all context pruning.

The "highest expected value"-ification of MMA has made it uninteresting to me. Fighting styles have become so homogenized that I fight back tears of boredom, especially when my mind drifts back to the days of seeing random fighting styles like Art Jimmerson fighting Royce Gracie

fyi @dang doesn't actually flag dang. They've always advised emailing hn@ycombinator.com.

You have to take a look at a map to really understand Taiwan's importance.

Taiwan isn't about military proximity. It's about access shipping access. Try open up a map. Despite China having a vast coastline, they do not have access to the open seas. Every one of their shipping lanes requires passage through another nation's waters.

If a heavy conflict were to erupt, China's supply chains would be cut off via naval blockade. It's a huge risk to China, and one they've attempted to ameliorate via the Belt and Road Initiative.

That changes if they acquire Taiwan. Taiwan's importance is not of offensive, but defensive primacy.

Safari will assign you a random ip address on a per tab basis if private relay is on. With chrome there is zero plausible deniability as to who you are. You are who you are today, yesterday, and a year before, in every tab, window, incognito or not.