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Good game, but the fact that there is a target that you have to achieve in a fixed number of rounds changes the math.

For instance, if all I care about is satisfying your win conditions, and I am above $20,000, then I should just pass till the end. Similarly, if I have been unlucky (even with Kelly bets) for the first 14 rounds, I should go all in on the 15th round.

Could you share the restaurant? I maintain a list.

God I miss that show.

It doesn’t have to be $300/day worth of output tokens. It could be like $290/day worth of input tokens to teach both you and the model about the problem you are solving and then $10/day worth of output tokens.

I have been hungry to do more work from my cell phone. It's ridiculous to be forced to sit in front of a computer to work with AI.

My current solution is to have claude (--dangerously-skip-permissions) listen for messages in my slack DMs to myself and take action in response to those messages.

I would happily switch to something better.

Why is Omnara better?

Honestly have never heard of this person. Why does HN care so much that he joined OpenAI?

Does anyone else find the use of different shades of green for the graph comparing Gemini 2.5 Pro and Sonnet just a little insane?

They did it!

Yes, this is true. It's a summary, and cannot really undo a /clear. It is just a directed, cheaper /compact.

Apologies for the late reply. My kids demanded my attention yesterday.

It doesn't seem to have included any points on style or workflow in the context. Most of my context documents end up including the following information:

1. I want the agent to treat git commits as checkpoints so that we can revert really silly changes it makes.

2. I want it to keep on running build/tests on the code to be sure it isn't just going completely off the rails.

3. I want it to refrain from adding low signal comments to the code. And not use emojis.

4. I want it to be honest in its dealings with me.

It goes on a bit from there. I suspect the reason that the models end up including that information in the context documents they dump in our sessions is that I give them such strong (and strongly worded) feedback on these topics.

As an alternative, I wonder what would happen if you just told it what was missing from the context and asked it to re-dump the context to file.

Fair enough. That's pretty cool, I haven't gone that far in my own work with AI yet, but now I am inspired to try.

The point is to get a pipeline working, cost can be optimized down after.

What is in the file?

You can ask it to store its current context to a file, review the file, ask it to emphasize or de-emphasize things based on your review, and then use `/clear`.

Then, you can edit the file at your leisure if you want to.

And when you want to load that context back in, ask it to read the file.

Works better than `/compact`, and is a lot cheaper.

Thanks, makes sense that an MCP server that edits files is a workaround to the problem.

To be fair to them, they make it pretty easy to manage the subscription, downgrade it, etc.

This is definitely not malicious on their part. Just bears pointing out.

You know, I wouldn't mind if they just applied the API pricing after Claude Code ran through the plan limits.

It would definitely get me to use it more.

$100/day seems reasonable as an upper-percentile spend per programmer. $500/day sounds insane.

A 2.5 hour session with Claude Code costs me somewhere between $15 and $20. Taking $20/2.5 hours as the estimate, $100 would buy me 12.5 hours of programming.

The writing of edits and code directly on my machine is something that happens on the client side. I don't see why that usage would be subject to anything but one-time billing or how it puts any strain on Anthropic's infrastructure.

I would accept a higher-priced plan (which covered both my use of Claude.ai/Claude Desktop AND my use of Claude Code).

Anthropic make it seem like Claude Code is a product categorized like Claude Desktop (usage of which gets billed against your Claude.ai plan). This is how it signs off all its commits:

     Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code)

At the very least, this is misleading. It misled me.

Once I had purchased the $200/month plan, I did some reading and quickly realized that I had been too quick to jump to conclusions. It still left me feeling like they had pulled a fast on one me.

If anyone from Anthropic is reading this, your billing for Claude Code is hostile to your users.

Why doesn’t Claude Code usage count against the same plan that usage of Claude.ai and Claude Desktop are billed against?

I upgraded to the $200/month plan because I really like Claude Code but then was so annoyed to find that this upgrade didn’t even apply to my usage of Claude Code.

So now I’m not using Claude Code so much.

My blood pressure just tripled.

Reinforcement Learning.

I hate acronyms with a fierce passion.

This is the quiz Claude created about Hacker News:

Question: What's interesting about Hacker News?

1. Hacker News was created by Paul Graham in February 2007, initially called "Startup News" or "News.YC" before receiving its current name on August 14, 2007.

2. Hacker News users need to accumulate 501 "karma" points before they're allowed to downvote content, as part of measures to prevent the "Eternal September" phenomenon.

3. Hacker News was designed as a collaborative project between Y Combinator and Reddit, with Reddit co-founders helping develop the initial moderation algorithms.

Which statement do you think is the twist?

I'm constantly waiting for other players.

Classic cold-start problem for multiplayer games like this. Traditionally, game developers add bots to combat this problem.

In your case, because the players are supposed to spot the bot, you can't even add bots without compromising your game.

Use it as training data for their models.

You feel comfortable uploading your family images to OpenAI servers?

I received a 500 response when I attempted to create an MCP server for an API.

I was using this URL: https://engineapi.moonstream.to/metatx/openapi.json

The response body:

    {success: false, error: "Server URL must start with https:// or http://"}

Can you explain how you produce the opcodes from a text/image?

Although the driving side isn't a Schelling point, the walking direction matching the driving direction is.

I'm not sure everyone in a country "knowing" to drive on the same side of the road is an example of a Schelling point -- drivers are trained to do this.

Also not sure if fads, like "everyone orders a flat white", are instances of Schelling points, but that seems more reasonable as a Schelling point than driving on the same side of the road.

More generally, didn't really understand the point of this article. I guess the author is trying to say that as technology improves, people are gaining the ability to customize their experiences. Framing this as "anti-Schelling points" doesn't make sense to me - what shared game is being played? At its most game-like, you could say that people are just trying to maximize their own utility without worrying (or having to worry) about shared economy of scale.