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rob··on Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app
Claude can convert them to text for you.
rob··on Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
"Sorry, that was a bug!" Thariq will be on scene shortly, don't worry.
rob··on HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing
Is there a wager for the upcoming "Hey, Boris from the Claude team here." response/comment that will be coming here soon? Usually followed by a "That was a bug! Fixed in version 525,005,0295.2020.00."
rob··on HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund
The second reply post was his copy and paste response from Anthropic's support staff along with a funny meme mocking it. He just didn't put it in a blockquote or quotation marks.

It was obvious to me, but I can see how somebody could get confused from that.

rob··on GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
According to `bunx ccusage` I'm easily doing $250-400/day in "real" API costs on my $200/month plan. There's no way everybody else isn't going to do the same thing and completely change the industry again. Both beginner and advanced developers are already hooked on all this stuff and they all know it.
rob··on I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support
I use the "Superpowers" plugin that creates an initial spec via brainstorming together, and then takes that spec and creates an implementation spec file based on your initial spec. It also has other agents make sure the spec doesn't drift between those two stages and does its own self-reviews. Almost every time, it finds and fixes a bunch of self-review issues before writing the final plan. Then I take that final plan and run it through the actual execution phase that does its own reviews after everything.

Just saying that I know a lot of people like to raw dog it and say plugins and skills and other things aren't necessary, but in my case I've had good success with this.

rob··on An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
Examples of gaslighting on April 15th (the first 2 issues were "fixed" by April 10th according to the story):

https://x.com/bcherny/status/2044291036860874901 https://x.com/bcherny/status/2044299431294759355

No mention of anything like "hey, we just fixed two big issues, one that lasted over a month." Just casual replies to everybody like nothing is wrong and "oh there's an issue? just let us know we had no idea!"

rob··on Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
I think it's to help drive traffic to his blog now that he's accepted sponsors in the header of every page. I do see this pelican thing come up from him on every model post that gets released.
rob··on Another Day Has Come
I have to give props for him for keeping basically a simple blog with the same layout and still consistently pulling in over $40,000/month in weekly sponsorships after 20+ years.

No drama, never in the spotlight much nowadays, just posting on his blog and raking in insane money.

rob··on Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?
https://x.com/TheAmolAvasare/status/2046724846604963924

(Head of Growth @AnthropicAI)

> When we launched Max a year ago, it didn't include Claude Code, Cowork didn't exist, and agents that run for hours weren't a thing. Max was designed for heavy chat usage, that's it.

Is there a wager that this is 100% foreshadowing Claude Code will be removed from the $100-200/month Max plans soon and go to something like API-only? Or only available on like a new $500-1,000/month plan? Restrict the $100-200/month ones to Claude.ai (website) or Claude desktop app only?

Either way, doesn't seem good to say it's a small test and then start justifying it in this direction.

rob··on Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
I know they've been bought out by Akamai or whatever but I've been using Linode for over 10 years and I still go to them if I need a VPS. I don't have extreme needs, but they seem to be always improving or adding features comparable to other providers and the UI is consistent so I don't see a reason to change. Any time there has been an issue they've migrated me to a new host automatically without even needing to do anything. I combine it with Dokploy now and just deploy most of my projects via Docker Compose and private GitHub repos.
rob··on Claude Design
What's great is I can take what you just said now and use it as context when generating my new DESIGN.md system and making sure it doesn't look like any of the other stuff. Thank you! Superpowers will show me all the options in their built-in visual companion when brainstorming. :)
rob··on I've sold out
> So this is the only part that really answers the "why" - you want to earn a living from working on Pi, and presumably (?) believe you can't achieve that with OSS. I think you're wrong, and belong to the 0.001% of OSS projects that can earn a very nice living from working on Pi without taking this step. I'm not exaggerating, I would fully agree that the number of OSS projects where this is possible is exceedingly small. But this is one of them. If you don't believe that then fair enough, I guess, though I'm curious why you believe that. Because there clearly exist a good number of OSS projects that make their lead developer a very comfortable living. Which condition do those projects satisfy that Pi doesn't?

Because he wants to have tons of money in the bank and get up every day to go do anything he wants with his four-year-old kid when he wakes up. Building something in a couple months that got popular enough to be able to this is amazing. Not check GitHub issues and PRs from ClawdBot5000 and hope he'll make some money from it in 5 years.

We're entering a new world of software development that allows people with no coding experience to do things like build their own mobile apps, websites, and all sorts of other things that were previously reserved for only technical people. The gap is closing quickly. At this point, if you're a "real" developer and have an app that somebody wants to purchase, you'd be crazy not to take the offer if it's a good amount and have cash in the bank that would allow you to do your own stuff in the future without worrying about $dayjob.

rob··on Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS
Yep. Using Handy with Parakeet v3 + a custom coding-tailored prompt to post-process on my 2019 Intel Mac and it's been working great.

Once in a while it will only output a literal space instead of the actual translation, but if I go into the 'history' page the translation is there for me to copy and paste manually. Maybe some pasting bug.

rob··on OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability
Most of the people using it probably don't even know what SSH is, let alone using a VPS to maintain a personal bot for them for years with no maintenance. They know Vercel and Supabase. They will run it on their local machine and just keep clicking yes to everything until they get the result they want.
rob··on OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability
[flagged]
rob··on Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit
"/brainstorming git checkout this miasma repo source code and implement a fix to prevent the scraper from not working on sites that use this tool"
rob··on Building a coding agent in Swift from scratch
Maybe this is the agent OP built!
rob··on Why I forked httpx
I better start seeing some caterpillar emojis in your next commits or we're gonna have a real problem!
rob··on I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop
There's plenty of time for me inside the Amazon app where I'll click the button to get a refund or replacement on an order and go through the little radio options wizard to select the reasoning, and it will tell me it's not eligible for a refund in the end.

I'll switch to the AI chat where it lets you select your order and I'll do the same thing, and it has no issue telling me it can give me a refund and process it instantly.

So my case, the two seem to behave differently. And these are on items that say they're eligible for refunds to begin with when you first order them.

rob··on I'm OK being left behind, thanks
I should've started registering a bunch of two and three character and generic .com domains in the early 90s when registration was free.
rob··on Astral to Join OpenAI
Just a tiny project with over 100 million downloads every month, over 4 million every day. No big deal. Just a small shop, don't overstate its importance.

https://pypistats.org/packages/uv

rob··on Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)
Really need that [flag bot] button added to HN.
rob··on Apideck CLI – An AI-agent interface with much lower context consumption than MCP
The real issue isn't MCP, it's these fucking bots posting here every day.
rob··on Let your Coding Agent debug the browser session with Chrome DevTools MCP
Someone left their bot on default settings.
rob··on Opus 4.6 1M is now the default Opus model for Claude Code users
Excludes Free and Pro plan:

Opus 4.6 1M is now the default Opus model for Claude Code users on Max, Team, and Enterprise plans.

rob··on Show HN: LogClaw – Open-source AI SRE that auto-creates tickets from logs
Hey bud, forgot to delete the original prompt at the end.
rob··on Show HN: Rudel – Claude Code Session Analytics
It's crazy how fast I'm able to identify these bots now. You just get an uncanny valley type of feeling immediately reading it. Sure enough you click the profile and it's a brand new account with one or two similar posts in the same style. There's some sort of writing style here that identifies it because I've picked upon it multiple times quickly but it's hard to articulate into words.
rob··on Big data on the cheapest MacBook
It's starting to show its age, but I've been using a 2019 MacBook Pro with the Intel chip and 16GB of memory. Still handles multiple terminal sessions with Claude Code and Codex simultaneously, building in Xcode, running Docker in the background, etc.

(Maybe the fans sometimes sound like they're a jet engine taking off…)

Finally just put an order in for a new 16" MBP M5 Max with 48GB memory only because it looks like they're going to stop supporting the Intel stuff this year and no more software updates. It'll probably be obsolete in six months with the rate things are going, but I've been averaging seven years between upgrades so it should be good!

rob··on How much of HN is AI?
Time to switch to a $10 one-time fee like Something Awful Forums. No crypto.
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