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Claude now has access to a server-side container environment

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Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment

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Post by billyjobob »

jimbo808 wrote: post #183
reissbaker wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW I strongly recommend using some of the recent, good Chinese OSS models. I love GLM-4.5, and Kimi K2 0905 is quite good as well.

I'd like to give these a try - what's your way of using them? I mostly use Claude because of Claude Code. Not sure what agentic coding tools people are using these days with OSS models. I'm not a big fan of manually uploading files into a web UI.

Both of those models have Anthropic API compatible endpoints, so you just set an environmental variable pointing to them before you run Claude Code.

Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment

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Post by [deleted] »

jimbo808 wrote: post #183
reissbaker wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW I strongly recommend using some of the recent, good Chinese OSS models. I love GLM-4.5, and Kimi K2 0905 is quite good as well.

I'd like to give these a try - what's your way of using them? I mostly use Claude because of Claude Code. Not sure what agentic coding tools people are using these days with OSS models. I'm not a big fan of manually uploading files into a web UI.

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Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment

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Post by djrj477dhsnv »

hereme888 wrote: post #160
pmx wrote: post #3

They need to focus on fixing reliability first. Their systems constantly go down and it appears they are having to quantise the models to keep up with demand, reducing intelligence significantly. New features like this feel pointless when the underlying model is becoming unusable.

Would anyone agree with my experience that OpenAI has the most robust and reliable LLM ecosystem atm? One week I really like Gemini 2.5 pro, the next I thought Claude was better, a few days I thought Grok 4 was pretty good (grok 4 is the most inconsistent "model"). But at the end, I default to OpenAI for overall consistency and reliability.

For the last 6 months or so, Grok had been the most consistent for me, especially for anything that relies heavily on search.

Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment

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Post by leptons »

spike021 wrote: post #78

For the past two to three weeks I've noticed Claude just consistently lagging or potentially even being throttled for pretty minor coding or CLI tasks. It'll basically stop showing any progress for at least a couple minutes. Sometimes exiting the query and re-trying gets it to work but other times it keeps happening. I pay for Pro so I don't think it's just API rate limiting. Would appreciate if that could be fixed b…

Can you still code without it?

Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment

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Post by gowld »

ryoshu wrote: post #86
ACCount37 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Anecdata" is notoriously unreliable when it comes to estimating AI performance over time. Sure, people complain about Anthropic's AI models getting worse over time. As well as OpenAI's models getting worse over time. But guess what? If you serve them open weights models, they also complain about models getting worse over time. Same exact checkpoint, same exact settings, same exact hardware. Relative LMArena metrics,…

Selection bias + perceptual adaptation is my experience. Selection bias happens when we play the probabilities of using an LLM and we only focus on the things it does really well, because it can be really amazing. When you use a model a lot you increasingly see when they don't work well your perception changes to focus on what doesn't work vs. the what does. Living evals can solve for the quantitative issues with inf…

And survivor bias.

People who like the tool at first use it until they stop liking it -> "it got worse"

People who dislike the tool at first do not use it -> "it was bad"

Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment

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Post by mdaniel »

simonw wrote: post #155

I just published an extensive review of the new feature, which is actually Claude Code Interpreter (the official name, bafflingly, is Upgraded file creation and analysis - that's what you turn on in the features page at least). I reverse-engineered it a bit, figured out its container specs, used it to render a PDF join diagram for a SQLite database and then re-ran a much more complex "recreate this chart from this sc…

> Version Control

> github.com

pour one out for the GitLab hosted projects, or its less popular friends hosted on bitbucket, codeberg, forgejo, sourceforge, sourcehut, et al. So dumb.

Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment

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Post by reissbaker »

jimbo808 wrote: post #183
reissbaker wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW I strongly recommend using some of the recent, good Chinese OSS models. I love GLM-4.5, and Kimi K2 0905 is quite good as well.

I'd like to give these a try - what's your way of using them? I mostly use Claude because of Claude Code. Not sure what agentic coding tools people are using these days with OSS models. I'm not a big fan of manually uploading files into a web UI.

The most private way is to use them on your own machine; a Mac Studio maxed out to 512GB RAM can run GLM-4.5 at FP8 with fairly long context, for example.

If you don't have the hardware to run it locally, let me shill my own company for a minute: Synthetic [1] has a $20/month subscription to most of the good open-weight coding LLMs, with higher rate limits than Claude's $20/month sub. And our $60/month sub has higher rate limits than the $200/month maxed-out version of the Claude Max plan.

You can still use Claude Code by using LiteLLM or similar tools that convert Anthropic-style API requests to OpenAI-style API requests; once you have one of those running locally, you override the ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL env var to point to your locally-running proxy. We'll also be shipping an Anthropic-compatible API this week to work with Claude Code directly. Some other good agentic tools you could use instead include Cline, Roo Code, KiloCode, OpenCode, or Octofriend (the last of which we maintain).

1: https://synthetic.new

Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment

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Post by spike021 »

leptons wrote: post #194
spike021 wrote: post #78

For the past two to three weeks I've noticed Claude just consistently lagging or potentially even being throttled for pretty minor coding or CLI tasks. It'll basically stop showing any progress for at least a couple minutes. Sometimes exiting the query and re-trying gets it to work but other times it keeps happening. I pay for Pro so I don't think it's just API rate limiting. Would appreciate if that could be fixed b…

Can you still code without it?

I'm not sure how saying it won't even run CLI commands has anything to do with my ability to code with or without it.
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