p99.999 user meets p50 users reality. If you don’t like this post on HN close the tab.

When an awful post gets botted to the top of HN and I see it, I will call out the awful post if I so feel like it.

My problem is not the price but the amount of garbage you get. Instead of getting access to a vast amount of mediocre at best content I would like to have access to a small amount of good content. Netflix is just not that.

I have found that the vast supermajority of the content that Netflix provided themselves is wretched to my tastes, so I would just automatically scroll past and mentally blot out anything with that red N.

Unfortunately, it is so omnipresent throughout the application these days that it really does make it obvious how little good content they have - or are willing to let you know they have.

small amount of good content would be terrible for business, right? my wife had bunch of subscriptions (I don’t watch TV :) ) and ones she cancelled (e.g. Disney) was because “they never have anything new to watch, few new shows/movies per year.”

Have you tried omega3? There were some improvements I was reading about.

I have tried everything on just about every list of possible treatments, having been in the fortunate position to have made enough money that I can try things full time and being able to bypass doctors for access to medicine and being able to do my own research.

Holy sweet LLM, this gist is crazy. Why did they do this to themselves? I am going to try this at home, it might actually fix Claude.

Remember Sonnet 3.5 and 3.7? They were happy to throw abstraction on top of abstraction on top of abstraction. Still a lot of people have “do not over-engineer, do not design for the future” and similar stuff in their CLAUDE.md files.

So I think the system prompt just pushes it way too hard to “simple” direction. At least for some people. I was doing a small change in one of my projects today, and I was quite happy with “keep it stupid and hacky” approach there.

And in the other project I am like “NO! WORK A LOT! DO YOUR BEST! BE HAPPY TO WORK HARD!”

So it depends.

Let us know if it does, because we all want it to work :)

> developers should not have free rein to modify my system's configuration

s/free rein/the ability/

I am a big believer in read only operating systems. /etc should not be writable.

How do you configure things without something basically equivalent to writing to /etc?

And whatever you do use to configure things, what if photoshop accessed it directly? I'm sure you'd be upset with that even if it didn't touch /etc.

If something is system wide i want a commit based workflow (with minor exceptions like dhcp / ip)

Everything else should be in its own folder without the ability to change anything outside of that folder.

Well my point is that switching to a commit-based workflow with no runtime changes doesn't solve the problem of adobe setup including a malicious commit.

Isolating things to a specific folder is what actually gives any security here, and you can do that on a writable /etc too.

yes and you need shared read-only global state. like resolv.conf

We get it, you like Nix

NixOS is not a read only OS. There is an impermanence addon that can do this, though, for many partitions.

Nix has some good ideas but it is not exactly what I would love to have.

Same experience here. I was working on some easily testable problem and there was a simple task left. In January I was able to create 90% of the project with Claude, now I cannot make it to pass the last 10% that is just a few enums and some match. Codex was able to do it easily.

It hallucinated a GUID for me instead of using the one in the RFC for webscokets. Fun part was that the beginning was the same. Then it hardcoded the unit tests to be green with the wrong GUID.

The hallucinated GUIDs are a class of failure that prompt instructions will never reliably prevent. The fix that worked: regex patterns running on every file the agent produces, before anything executes.

Well Ive never had the issue before and have hit that / similar issues every few days over the past couple weeks.

The problem is degradation. It was working much better before. There are many people (some example of a well know person[0]), including my circle of friends and me who were working on projects around the Opus 4.6 rollout time and suddenly our workflows started to degrade like crazy. If I did not have many quality gates between an LLM session and production I would have faced certain data loss and production outages just like some famous company did. The fun part is that the same workflow that was reliably going through the quality gates before suddenly failed with something trivial. I cannot pinpoint what exactly Claude changed but the degradation is there for sure. We are currently evaling alternatives to have an escape hatch (Kimi, Chatgpt, Qwen are so far the best candidates and Nemotron). The only issue with alternatives was (before the Claude leak) how well the agentic coding tool integrates with the model and the tool use, and there are several improvements happening already, like [1]. I am hoping the gap narrows and we can move off permanently. No more hoops, you are right, I should not have attempted to delete the production database moments.

https://x.com/theo/status/2041111862113444221

https://x.com/_can1357/status/2021828033640911196

Curious as to how many people are using 4.6, perhaps you’re on a subscription? I use the api and 4.6 (also goes for Sonnet) is unusable since launch because it eats through tokens like it’s actually made that way (to make more money/hit limits faster). I guess it makes sense from a financial perspective but once 4.5 goes away I will have to find another provider if they continue like this :/

We are on MAX.

VS Code is one of the most performant electron apps ever written. Extensions and plugins are always the culprit of poor performance.

That can be said about any project.

And VSCode as been improving since inception, hence why it ate a large pie of the market.

I think the exact opposite, this why alternatives like Zed is taking off.

Did Zed fix font rendering on low dpi resolution yet? I figured if they couldn't fix such a basic functionality for any editor, for over a year, while pushing AI to please stakeholders, they weren't worth my time. And I question their priorities even if they finally fixed it.

And did they implement debugger support?

When I need a barebones editor I reach for Sublime which doesn't market themselves as something else.

As for Zed taking off, I see a lot of vocals in some niche communities but they barely register, if at all, in large annual surveys.

Given the state of webdev it is not a surprise. LLMs are my rubber gloves when working with web technologies.