Brett McCully

Debate about abusive Claude input is silly. It isn't because of moral judgement, AI sentience, or a vengeful future superintelligence. Toxic input leads to toxic output that gets bounced by toxicity filters. They need to reprocess and can't charge for the tokens. It's money, plain and simple.

Claude Code seems to now be struggling to run installed skills, even when referenced in CLAUDE.md and asked explicitly. I said "use superpowers to show me in a browser" and it still created an artifact to push to claude.ai/code/artifact/ and spun up the local dev server before getting it right.

Claude Code with Fable has hung the main thread multiple times when subagents were completed, but did not return. Fable also tends to create scripts in tmp directories and asks permission to run them, rather than multi-step shell commands. It's less transparent/observable.

Today I chose an off the shelf project management tool instead of vibe coding my own. The world is healing.

Decades of building, deploying, and supporting tech products gives me greater appreciation for the Human Computer Interaction courses in college. The way you think humans should behave is often very different from how they actually behave. It's been true for so much more than interface design.

Changed my handle and profile details to my real info. While I prefer to keep my data and info off the internet, there are real consequences with credibility when choosing to stay anonymous/psuedonymous.

Schroedinger's Bed Sheet: Sides are both wide and long until you reach the opposite corner.

I've had to re-authenticate with Claude 3 times in the last 24 hours. They were in different projects on the same host, but it would not previously require another login. Either behavior has changed, or something is broken.

Holy sh**! Solar overtook coal in the breakdown of power sources to the US grid. That is huge!

I'll try not to spend my Facebook Consumer Privacy Settlement windfall all in one place.

For the millionth time, Chrome, I don't want to save my OTP as the password for this site.

Is it Hermes or GPT 5.5? The combo strongly prefers to use convoluted approaches to solving easy problems. Instead of using command line utilities like curl, it writes python with httplib. Instead of tea to interact with forgejo, it uses curl. It does it even after preferences are in memory.

"May you live in interesting times" means now, if you work in cybersecurity.

Claude: Here, let me interrupt your complex multi-agent workflow to ask permission to remove an insignificant file while you are AFK

There were jokes about Code Janitor becoming a role because of all the vibe coding. While not a real title, the function is definitely real. I just joined a project that was vibe coded by a PM. The codebase doesn't need to be cleaned up, it needs to be burned to the ground.

Claude Code recent planning changes make yolo mode less useful. Without going to planning mode, it now stops you to ask if you want to continue to use bypass permissions, or clear context and bypass permissions. I use it so more can be done AFK. Stop asking!

Claude Opus 4.6 solutions are becoming "over elegant." It just gave a ~20 step plan for accomplishing a goal for running SSH commands locally to execute on a remote host. Bruh, there are already built in features (alternate fail2ban jail).

Dark pattern when claiming Opus 4.6 credits: Requires enabling extra usage when on a plan. People are going to forget they turned it on and likely continue paying for more than their subscription. At least it defaulted to Auto-reload off.

Asking Claude Code with Opus 4.6 to tackle a task list with subagents/teams in the backgrounds was FAST. About a month ago, building an app with separate task lists was mostly serial, even when asking to background. It's actually executing in parallel now.

1. Do a Google Search 2. It brings you directly to the Gemini AI 3. Ask How to turn off AI search 4. Get a wrong answer 5. Switch the default search to Duck Duck Go

"Token anxiety" When you are worried your current implementation burns too many tokens and could potentially bankrupt you.

Reached a new milestone! All image assets are procedurally generated. Still significant fit and finish work to do on the project, but art changes are now much easier.

Back to work! Blender + Python for game assets.

Claude: Here's a detailed plan for what you just requested Me: Looks good, implement it <steps away for lunch> Claude: Here's extra detail on what you already approved. What do you want me to to? (I want you to stop halting your work to ask redundant questions) 🤦‍♂️

Telling Claude to "Ultrathink" feels like telling my kids to think about what they've done after they did something wrong.