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I think this guy is using AI differently than me. Since Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3, I have been able to absolutely crush my coding work. Boris might be embellishing how he ONLY writes loops, but for the most part I am just handing off planning docs to Claude or GPT and they implement it with like 95% accuracy. A lot of you don't want to hear it but this is a user issue.

He's discussing Anthropic struggling to fix an issue with their own product. He's not the one struggling.

Re: I think they are lying to you [video]

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I think this guy is using AI differently than me. Since Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3, I have been able to absolutely crush my coding work. Boris might be embellishing how he ONLY writes loops, but for the most part I am just handing off planning docs to Claude or GPT and they implement it with like 95% accuracy. A lot of you don't want to hear it but this is a user issue.

Can you give me your use case here? I have not gotten around to trying loops in Claude code but have started to notice the hype.

Re: I think they are lying to you [video]

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I think this guy is using AI differently than me. Since Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3, I have been able to absolutely crush my coding work. Boris might be embellishing how he ONLY writes loops, but for the most part I am just handing off planning docs to Claude or GPT and they implement it with like 95% accuracy. A lot of you don't want to hear it but this is a user issue.

Yup. The only caveat I'd add is that I'm using an alternate account to agree with people who say that AI coding has been amazing, because there is a seemingly a good chunk of people who dislike it and it will be met with downvotes. Also because my real account has my real name in the profile along with projects I work on, and a simple search could reveal my pro-AI coding views and these same folks who downvote could…

Well said. Most of my career I made a trade-off and that trade-off was that I would much rather spend my free time outside in nature than on implementing my wild ideas which I always recognized would take considerable time. I'd maybe take 1% of my ideas anywhere. Now I can play with ideas while I'm out on the trail and turn those into something I can test within a couple hours, it's the most fun I've had on computers since the very beginning.

Re: I think they are lying to you [video]

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Pretty much the same point I made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403908 Their apparent inability to get the basics right makes me severely doubt their claims of self-improving AI. The humans at Anthropic wouldn't know improvement if it landed on their lap and started twerking, and AI cannot do a job without strong human intervention into what the goals and guardrails actually are. I'm kind of reminded of whe…

Reading this it occurs to me that this timeline may be moving toward a future where garbage software, garbage information etc. have become the norm for so long that the number of people who can distinguish trash from quality, or signal from noise, has become negligible. A true era of ignorance, looking like an ocean of nonsense in which no one can really navigate as it is ungrounded in reality. Idiocracy presents a n…

Customers abandon companies that fail.

Remember how they used Brando to water plants and it kills them? Eventually mistakes break critical systems and you fail.

Re: I think they are lying to you [video]

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Pretty much the same point I made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403908 Their apparent inability to get the basics right makes me severely doubt their claims of self-improving AI. The humans at Anthropic wouldn't know improvement if it landed on their lap and started twerking, and AI cannot do a job without strong human intervention into what the goals and guardrails actually are. I'm kind of reminded of whe…

Reading this it occurs to me that this timeline may be moving toward a future where garbage software, garbage information etc. have become the norm for so long that the number of people who can distinguish trash from quality, or signal from noise, has become negligible. A true era of ignorance, looking like an ocean of nonsense in which no one can really navigate as it is ungrounded in reality. Idiocracy presents a n…

The pralaya is not far away. Soon Shiva will begin his dance. I give us until 2036.

Re: I think they are lying to you [video]

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I think this guy is using AI differently than me. Since Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3, I have been able to absolutely crush my coding work. Boris might be embellishing how he ONLY writes loops, but for the most part I am just handing off planning docs to Claude or GPT and they implement it with like 95% accuracy. A lot of you don't want to hear it but this is a user issue.

Sorry, but context rot is real, and I’d be curious how your code is playing out in the real world. Is it shipping? Is it a known product with stable docs? Is it greenfield?

Aspects of coding are faster certainly, but oh gosh can it get very wrong very fast when things go sideways, and with everyone using it, the chaos factor compounds into a near halt.

Re: I think they are lying to you [video]

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Pretty much the same point I made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403908 Their apparent inability to get the basics right makes me severely doubt their claims of self-improving AI. The humans at Anthropic wouldn't know improvement if it landed on their lap and started twerking, and AI cannot do a job without strong human intervention into what the goals and guardrails actually are. I'm kind of reminded of whe…

I watched the video and I wish I could get those 13 minutes of my life back. He could have done it in 13 seconds instead of 13 minutes: "Anthropic is lying about the effectiveness of agentic loops because there's this one screen flicker bug in Claude Code that took a year to fix." Yeah, like when United Airlines claims a plane can fly 300 people 6,000 miles they are lying to you. I can prove they're lying to you beca…

He spent that much time and you still misunderstood the direct message and missed the subtext.

The lie is coding is solved, the proof is they had an outstanding coding issue they were working on for over a year while saying coding is solved. There’s a great number of other issues with their own software that disprove their premise, but you only need one counter example to disprove something.

And because you missed it, the subtext was they want you to use loops not because they work but because they burn lots of tokens thus making them more money.

Re: I think they are lying to you [video]

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I think this guy is using AI differently than me. Since Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3, I have been able to absolutely crush my coding work. Boris might be embellishing how he ONLY writes loops, but for the most part I am just handing off planning docs to Claude or GPT and they implement it with like 95% accuracy. A lot of you don't want to hear it but this is a user issue.

> just handing off planning docs to Claude or GPT and they implement it with like 95% accuracy.

Do you have any publicly available demonstrations of this claim?

> A lot of you don't want to hear it

That there are skill differences in the use of technology? On the contrary this knowledge makes me suspicious of undocumented claims like yours.

> this is a user issue.

Another claim I wish was quantified. With all the billions invested I assumed this would naturally come to exist. I may have just missed it. Any pointers?

Re: I think they are lying to you [video]

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post #27

I think this guy is using AI differently than me. Since Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3, I have been able to absolutely crush my coding work. Boris might be embellishing how he ONLY writes loops, but for the most part I am just handing off planning docs to Claude or GPT and they implement it with like 95% accuracy. A lot of you don't want to hear it but this is a user issue.

Sorry, but context rot is real, and I’d be curious how your code is playing out in the real world. Is it shipping? Is it a known product with stable docs? Is it greenfield? Aspects of coding are faster certainly, but oh gosh can it get very wrong very fast when things go sideways, and with everyone using it, the chaos factor compounds into a near halt.

When you hand something off to Claude code, the harness is doing lots of different sessions it’s not a one shot.
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