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Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by shuntress » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 10:01 PM UTC

Aurornis wrote: post #266

nerptastic wrote: post #174

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Man I really thought this was satire. It’s phenomenal that you can gain 10x benefits at all layers of the stack, you must have a very small development team or work alone. I just don’t see how I could export 10x the work and have it properly validated by peers at this point in time. I may be able to generate code 10-20x faster, but there are nuances that only a human can reason about in my particular sector.

> I just don’t see how I could export 10x the work and have it properly validated by peers at this point in time. In my experience, the people who 10X their output with Claude Code fit one of two categories: 1. They're not really taking the time to understand the code they're submitting. They might do a skim over the output and see that it looks reasonable and passes tests, but they aren't taking time to understand t…

Regarding point #2, while it is of course entirely possible that they are slackers it is more likely that they lack the knowledge you are leveraging in order to declare that the PRs are "simple"

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by hsuduebc2 » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 10:36 PM UTC

seanw444 wrote: post #267

hsuduebc2 wrote: post #195

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I noticed that too. At start. It vaguely reminded me of the famous Navy SEAL copypasta.

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch?

I see some confusion from your downvotes. Sean cited the start of "navy seal copypasta"

The Navy Seal copypasta is a internet meme consisting of an absurdly over the top tough guy threat, posted to mock someone who is acting somehow aggressive, insecure, or self important online, usually after a minor argument.

Here it's full text:

>What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by eijkene » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 11:24 PM UTC

Pay08 wrote: post #309

Aurornis wrote: post #258

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I use Claude Code a lot, but I don't understand these "I'm doing 10X the work" comments. I spend a lot of time reviewing any code that comes out of Claude Code. Even using Opus 4.6 with max effort there is almost always something that needs to be changed, often dramatically. I can see how people go down the path of thinking "Wow, this code compiles and passes my tests! Ship it!" and start handing trust over to Opus,…

That's part of why I don't get AI for directly writing code at all. If I am going to be reviewing anything that comes out of it (and I will) then I might as well just write it myself. It's easier and faster, although it does also make it easier to fall victim to blind spots.

I think there’s a subset of engineers who were never all that good (we have no idea how many there are) who benefit most from llm’s.

We should also keep in mind there’s always been an insane shortage of high quality devs. So I’m not surprised with what we seeing.

But this notion that an elite dev is seeing 10x productivity gain is absolute nonsense. LLM’s hold experts back in most contexts.

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by muyuu » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 11:40 PM UTC

fleischhauf wrote: post #246

CapmCrackaWaka wrote: post #22

If anthropic‘s reliability becomes a meme, they risk brand death like Microsoft. Go to hand it to them though, they’re really living that “AI writes all of our code and it should write your code too” life.

I'm quite impressed on how far they got while the claude code code looks like it does.

VC money magic

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by echelon » Wed, Apr 08, 2026, 1:01 AM UTC

rattlesnakedave wrote: post #296

dandellion wrote: post #206

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Here's my 100 file custom scaffolding AI prompt that I've been working on for the last four months, and can reliably one-shot most math olympic problems and even a rust to do list.

Case in point

Let's come back to these comments in ten years, shall we? Should be pretty entertaining.

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by vidarh » Wed, Apr 08, 2026, 5:34 AM UTC

skydhash wrote: post #292

vidarh wrote: post #219

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> That’s like saying enjoying composing music, but not enjoying playing music Do you think that is impossible? There are plenty of people who enjoy composing music on things like trackers, with no intent of ever playing said music on an instrument. I love coding, but I also like making things, and the two are in conflict: When I write code for the sake of writing code, I am meticulous and look for perfection. When I…

> When I write code for the sake of writing code, I struggle to understand that comparison. Code is notation, you can’t write code for the sake of writing code. You have a problem and you instruct the computer how to do it. And for the sake of your collaborator and your futher self, you take care of how you write that. There’s no real distinction IMO. > There is also a hidden presumption in what you've written that 1…

> Code is notation, you can’t write code for the sake of writing code.

Of course you can.

> You have a problem and you instruct the computer how to do it.

And sometimes that problem is not the point. Just like sometimes I write for the joy of writing, not because I particularly care about a reader or the meaning of the output.

> The computers does not really care about what programming language you’re using and the name of your variables and other indentifiers. People do. You can have correct code (decompiled assembly or minified JavaScript) and no one will wants to collaborate on that.

This has no relation whatsoever to the sentence you quoted.

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by _flux » Wed, Apr 08, 2026, 9:23 AM UTC

jimkleiber wrote: post #201

_flux wrote: post #98

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That's what these providers want as well, but from the other side. They want to know that a customer won't be able to eat more than certain number of servings, as they need to pay for each of those servings. It works out even if some customers are able to eat a lot, because people on average have a certain limit. The limits of computers are much higher.

Fair, and I think openclaw and all the orchestrators are having agents maxing out the plans. So maybe they figure out a new tier that is agent-run vs human-run. Agents are much more insatiable, whereas humans have a limit. Not sure if it'd be possible to split between those two different modes, but I think that might address the appetite issue better.

I think it would be impossible to find the price point for a monthly subscribtion that would both be profitable to a provider, as well as attractive to the customer. If anything, as the customers would now be paying necessarily even a higher amount for agentic use, they'd make certain they'd be using the agent as effectively as they can, meaning it would be even more costly for the provider.

Pay-per-token is really the only way it can work. If some kind of fixed monthly price is desirable, then there should be a quota the user can assign, and then the agent could e.g. slow itself down by 50% when 50% of the quota is spent, another 50% at 75%, etc, to make it last longer..

As a side thought, I wonder how it could affect an agent's behavior if the information of this token usage/limit was brought to it..

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by therealpygon » Wed, Apr 08, 2026, 12:40 PM UTC

xantronix wrote: post #75

As much as people on Hacker News complain about subscription models for productivity and creativity suites, the open arms embrace of subscription development tools (services, really) which seek to offload the very act itself makes me wonder how and why so many people are eager to dive right in. I get it. LLMs are cool technology. Is this a symptom of the same phenomenon behind the deluge of disposable JavaScript fram…

Think of the stupidest product you can think of and you likely only know about it because people buy/bought them en masse. AI is no different from any other product; plenty will pay/adopt for exactly the reasons you said. There is powerful motivations for people to feel “ahead” of others (or more informed, or more “cool”, or more knowledgeable, or more experienced, or whatever their ego requires), even if their situation is exactly the same.

That said, I’m not sure I follow your statement of less resistance to the development of internal tools when the opposite seems to be the case; companies (or more specifically developers) are perhaps too quick to think they can just vibe-code a replacement for any vendor in a weekend these days.

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by jimkleiber » Wed, Apr 08, 2026, 1:04 PM UTC

_flux wrote: post #317

jimkleiber wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair, and I think openclaw and all the orchestrators are having agents maxing out the plans. So maybe they figure out a new tier that is agent-run vs human-run. Agents are much more insatiable, whereas humans have a limit. Not sure if it'd be possible to split between those two different modes, but I think that might address the appetite issue better.

I think it would be impossible to find the price point for a monthly subscribtion that would both be profitable to a provider, as well as attractive to the customer. If anything, as the customers would now be paying necessarily even a higher amount for agentic use, they'd make certain they'd be using the agent as effectively as they can, meaning it would be even more costly for the provider. Pay-per-token is really t…

Ironically in chatting with Gemini, helped me realize that telecoms have often solved this problem of unlimited usage with rate/speed limiting. If one goes over 10GB or whatnot of data, then the speed drops from 5G to 3G, and data remains unlimited.

I wonder if there could be something like that, maybe even a progressive rate limiting, where after a certain number of tokens or another metric of use, then the speed slows down a LOT.

Not saying that I would love that as a consumer, as I'd prefer this all-you-can eat, unlimited data plan, but I wonder if that would be a compromise that could work, as it seems to have worked OK with the telecom space.

edit: the nerd in me loves the irony of me making the above comment and then later seeing your username as flux :-)

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by raxxorraxor » Wed, Apr 08, 2026, 1:04 PM UTC

xantronix wrote: post #75

As much as people on Hacker News complain about subscription models for productivity and creativity suites, the open arms embrace of subscription development tools (services, really) which seek to offload the very act itself makes me wonder how and why so many people are eager to dive right in. I get it. LLMs are cool technology. Is this a symptom of the same phenomenon behind the deluge of disposable JavaScript fram…

I think some workflows are just that much faster with AI. And if not I can spare the time for a prompt to get work done in parallel to the stuff I work on.

There is a cost though, the context switches of topics aren't free. But if I need to visualise a something, I let an LLM create a page. If I have two tables of data that needs to be joined/mapped, I let an LLM do the first shot, often that is enough.

I cannot even hope to reach that speed. It isn't a magic tool, but it really accelerates some task.

That speed allows for in-house solutions to become viable again, software that really adapts specific business processes instead of some wonky ERP package that never really fit what you were trying to do.

I have our dbs schema checked into a Gitea repository, which our AIs can just access to quickly ingest schema definitions. If data safety is an issue, use a local model. It is extremely beneficial if you quickly can establish context and let your AI deal with real problems. And it is quite good at that.