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Unironically this can actually be a good idea. Instead of "rerunning," run in parallel. Then pick the best solution. Pros: - Saved Time! - Scalable! - Big Bill? Cons: - Big Bill - AI written code
Usually, when you re-run, you change your prompt based on the initial results. You can't just run several tasks in parallel hoping for one of them to complete.
Why is everyone so careless about letting Claude Desktop upload their source code and/or private data to its servers? Or maybe I'm too paranoid for caring about where data go.
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Unironically this can actually be a good idea. Instead of "rerunning," run in parallel. Then pick the best solution. Pros: - Saved Time! - Scalable! - Big Bill? Cons: - Big Bill - AI written code
Usually, when you re-run, you change your prompt based on the initial results. You can't just run several tasks in parallel hoping for one of them to complete.
Not only can you, some providers recommend it and their tools provide it, like ChatGPT Codex (the web tool). Can’t find where I read it but I’m pretty sure Anthropic devs said early on that they kick off the same prompt to Claude Code in multiple simultaneous runs.
Personally, I’ve had decent success from this way of working.
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AI bills are already trivial compared to human time. I pay for claude max, all I need to do is save an hour a month and I will be breaking even.
$200h * 8 * 5 * 4 * 12 = $384 000 per year. You're like in the top 0.05% of earners in the software field. Of course, if you save 10 hours per month, the math starts making more sense for others. And this is assuming LLM prices are stable, which I very much doubt they are, since everyone is price dumping to get market share.
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You will start seriously worrying about coding AI bills within 6 months
You will start seriously worrying about coding AI bills within 6 months Nope. More open models ship everyday and are 80% cheaper for similar and sometimes better performance, depending on the task. You can use Qwen-3 Coder (a 480 billion parameter model with 35 billion active per forward pass (8 out of 160 experts)) for $0.302/M input tokens $0.302/M output tokens via openrouter. Claude 4 Sonnet is $3/M input tokens…
We passed a milestone with little fanfare. AI is now improving itself.
By this standard we passed the milestone in the 60s when Lisp was used to build better Lisp compilers. By a more honest standard we are still a very long way away from AI suggesting new ANN architectures, new approaches to managing RLHF, better training data, new benchmarks, etc etc. LLMs are nowhere close to being able to improve themselves.
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Have you seen human-written code?
At least when you tell a human the indentation is wrong, they can fix it on the first try. Watched an AI agent last night try to fix indentation by using sed for 20 minutes before I just fixed it myself after cringing.
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I've taught undergraduates and graduates how to code. I've contributed to Open Source projects. I'm a researcher and write research code with other people who write research code. You could say I've seen A LOT of poorly written human generated code. Yet, I still trust it more. Why? Well one of the big reasons is exactly what we're joking about. I can trust a human to iterate. Lack of iteration would be fine if everyt…
> Lack of iteration What makes you think that agents can't iterate? > I'm going to throw them out if they are just constantly showering me with praise and telling me how much of a genius I am You can tell the agent to have the persona of an arrogant ass if you prefer it.
My optimization hack is that I'm using speech recognition now with Claude Code. I can just talk to it like a person and explain the full context / history of things. Way faster than typing it all out.
So you sit in a room, talking to it? Doesn't it feel weird? I type a lot faster than I speak :D
A repeated trend is that Claude Code only gets 70-80% of the way, which is fine and something I wish was emphasized more by people pushing agents. This bullet point is funny: > Treat it like a slot machine > Save your state before letting Claude work, let it run for 30 minutes, then either accept the result or start fresh rather than trying to wrestle with corrections. Starting over often has a higher success rate th…