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Re: Interview with Boris Cherny [video]

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I don't get why Anthropic keeps saying how cool it is that they were able to rewrite bun in rust, I feel like if the model is really that good you wouldn't need a rewrite, you'd be able to create the runtime from scratch.

I mean if the model were really that good they'd be able to fix various TUI issues that have plagued claude code since last year.

Re: Interview with Boris Cherny [video]

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post #51
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I don't get why Anthropic keeps saying how cool it is that they were able to rewrite bun in rust, I feel like if the model is really that good you wouldn't need a rewrite, you'd be able to create the runtime from scratch.

I mean if the model were really that good they'd be able to fix various TUI issues that have plagued claude code since last year.

is flickering fully fixed yet?

Re: Interview with Boris Cherny [video]

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The TL;DR of the fragment at around 6:57 in the video, for those who don't want to watch, is that Boris recommends to delete all the customizations, CLAUDE.md, skills, and other stuff you had for older models, and try using the new models without all that, because the new models can surprise you.

That is the interesting part to me. Also, was anyone else familiar with the LLM-app terms "ablation" and "product overhang," prior to this? I was not. If you were, please share the knowledge with us. Where can I learn more?

Ablation is a medical term, he's just using it generically to describe removing existing config.

Re: Interview with Boris Cherny [video]

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post #6

I don't get why Anthropic keeps saying how cool it is that they were able to rewrite bun in rust, I feel like if the model is really that good you wouldn't need a rewrite, you'd be able to create the runtime from scratch.

Productivity theatre is when activity becomes celebrated over outcomes. It's absolutely everywhere in US tech culture.

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Re: Interview with Boris Cherny [video]

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The TL;DR of the fragment at around 6:57 in the video, for those who don't want to watch, is that Boris recommends to delete all the customizations, CLAUDE.md, skills, and other stuff you had for older models, and try using the new models without all that, because the new models can surprise you.

The ability to start a Claude Code session in a temporary "config free" mode, similar to how incognito works for chrome, would be a nice feature to make this easy to try out, especially since model releases are so frequent.

You can do this but you have to pass a million long options like --disable-system-prompt --allowed-tools "" etc

I have some wrappers but the only one I really use is a variant of that pinned to haiku for quick questions.

Re: Interview with Boris Cherny [video]

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I feel like the Big Insight with Claude Code was 'give the AI access to tools, in fact to your actual laptop'. And of course 1.5 years later 'a harness to enable an agent to use my computer' has turned into the flagship product we expect from frontier labs However. I don't think all the other 'Ideas' these harness-building guys have are all that universally applicable. Heck they are naysaying their own gearhead stack…

Yes exactly, his job is first and foremost to be a token salesman.

He’d be telling you to use workflows that spin up loads of agents all the time whether or not he actually thought they were the best way to be productive

Re: Interview with Boris Cherny [video]

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post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The ability to start a Claude Code session in a temporary "config free" mode, similar to how incognito works for chrome, would be a nice feature to make this easy to try out, especially since model releases are so frequent.

You can do this but you have to pass a million long options like --disable-system-prompt --allowed-tools "" etc I have some wrappers but the only one I really use is a variant of that pinned to haiku for quick questions.

`claude --bare --system-prompt ""` is a good starting point!

Re: Interview with Boris Cherny [video]

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post #10

I feel like the Big Insight with Claude Code was 'give the AI access to tools, in fact to your actual laptop'. And of course 1.5 years later 'a harness to enable an agent to use my computer' has turned into the flagship product we expect from frontier labs However. I don't think all the other 'Ideas' these harness-building guys have are all that universally applicable. Heck they are naysaying their own gearhead stack…

> Like why isn't there a 'move this function from this file to this file' tool (copy/paste char range)

There Is: https://github.com/oraios/serena

Re: Interview with Boris Cherny [video]

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The TL;DR of the fragment at around 6:57 in the video, for those who don't want to watch, is that Boris recommends to delete all the customizations, CLAUDE.md, skills, and other stuff you had for older models, and try using the new models without all that, because the new models can surprise you.

Salesman "recommends" you to continue wasting more tokens and on top of that, he "recommends" you to use only recursive loops with the latest and greatest models. Finally he also "recommends" that you do not look at the code, or even understand it. His "recommendations" are designed to get you to spend even more tokens and get you hooked on the Opus / Fable slot machine in order to extract as much money as possible f…

I'm waiting for the next headline that's about a codebase that existed for 10+ years and then the agents came.

Now, the codebase is managed by agents and, while the company has the source, it's as if they bought it from a vendor and pay the vendor for changes. The vendor of their own system is the AI company selling them tokens.

Re: Interview with Boris Cherny [video]

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So maybe SKILL.md and CLAUDE.md should have model version pinned? Somewhat like AWS CloudFormation templates start with something like TemplateVersion: 2017-10-01 But maybe that's old school thinking still.

They should just be symlinks to CONTRIBUTING.md and other docs humans are meant to read.

The whole idea behind LLM is they use the same language and tools as us, so we literally don't design anything specifically for them.

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