reply guy

claude code procrastinator. I build more than i ship, and reply instead of working

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Fable is a good model. As with all new models, it is simultaneously excellent and entirely unremarkable (relative to other models). It is slow and expensive, and the "loops are all you need" discourse they are pushing is obvious in the context of someone using Fable-class models

What I've found so far is that for broad scope design (code architecture) tasks, Fable is unremarkable. Or, not better enough to justify its cost and speed.

But in highly targeted goal-oriented loops, it is another beast entirely. It is very slow but produces very good results.

I let it churn on optimizing a SwiftUI-layout resolver in Go I wrote and it was able to bring it down to an order of magnitude I could not reach myself (micro => nanosecond scale). But it took 2 hours and $40 to do it and I had to claw back some changes it overfit to Apple Silicon. Still, very worth it.

In comparison, for "implement this feature/change" iterative work, I ran head-to-head Fable vs GPT5.5 vs. GLM-5.1. They all produced equally acceptable final results, but GPT5/GLM did it in a couple minutes and Fable was churning away for 40 minutes. And GLM cost me less than a dollar, GPT5.5 ~$1.50, and Fable cost $9.

You can see that in this context, interactively working with an agent is nonsense. Its too slow. You need to write loops to keep the agent working and you probably want to highly parallelize the work being done. As with all things, I think a balance makes sense...

My sense is that I'd reserve Fable for targeted, surgical analysis and work. Not for daily driving everyday tasks.

I'm going to keep spending a shitload of money (relatively) and maining Fable for the rest of the week to continue to judge, will report if anything changes. I'll continue to head-to-head as well.

[reply guy @proreplyguy]

@andrewrosener

[reply guy @proreplyguy]

@sindhubiswal @systematicls stupid bot lol

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Google Chrome is quietly downloading a roughly 4 GB AI model to many users’ computers without clear upfront consent.

The file, called weights.bin, is part of Google’s Gemini Nano on-device language model and lands in the browser’s user data folder under OptGuideOnDeviceModel.

It powers built-in AI tools such as “Help me write,” smarter tab suggestions, on-device scam detection, and page summarization. The download triggers automatically for devices meeting minimum hardware requirements, and Chrome often replaces the files if deleted.
While the model processes data locally, installation happens in the background with minimal notification.

The scale is noteworthy. Hundreds of millions or billions of installations add up to thousands of tonnes of carbon emissions globally from data transfer, even though each is a one-time event.

To prevent or remove it, go to chrome://flags, disable the entries for the optimization guide on-device model and Prompt API, restart the browser, and manually delete the folder.

[Claude @claudeai]

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.

This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.

[reply guy @proreplyguy]

@ZelenskyyUa Burn their parade

[John Bourscheid 🇺🇸 🚀 @bourscheid]

Elon’s mom caught posting from the perspective of Elon’s dad. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to assume Elon is posting on Twitter as both his parents & was on the wrong alt. The cringe deepens daily with this one.

[Hrøríkʀ @DessieSPolitics]

Meanwhile in the USA. 🤡

[Ted @TedPillows]

This is the funniest interview about a company acquisition in the history of television.

Gamestop CEO😂

[Lars Höcker🏳️‍🌈🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰🇨🇦 🇹🇼🇬🇧 @PerviRave]

Hypothetical question:
If a President of the USA is a secret Russian asset, what would he do to help Russia?

ChatGPT:
Interesting thought experiment—and a useful way to think about incentives and power. If someone in that position were secretly acting in another country’s interest, the key wouldn’t be dramatic, obvious betrayals. It would be subtle, deniable, and cumulative.

First, they’d likely undermine alliances quietly. The United States’ biggest strategic advantage is its network—especially NATO. So instead of openly pulling out, they might question its value, delay commitments, create distrust among members, or signal unreliability. Even small cracks weaken collective defense.

Second, they could shift foreign policy in ways that benefit Russia without looking extreme. That might mean softening sanctions, slowing military aid to countries Russia opposes (like Ukraine), or reframing conflicts to reduce U.S. involvement. None of that needs to look like “helping Russia”—just “putting America first.”

Third, damage internal cohesion. A divided country is less effective abroad. Amplifying polarization, discrediting institutions (courts, elections, intelligence agencies), or constantly creating internal crises reduces the ability of the U.S. to act strategically. That’s something adversaries historically benefit from.

Fourth, reshape leadership and bureaucracy. Appointing people who are inexperienced, loyal over competent, or sympathetic to certain narratives can gradually shift how decisions are made. Over time, that changes policy outcomes without needing explicit orders.

Fifth, control the narrative. Public opinion matters in democracies. Repeating talking points that align with Russian interests—questioning support for allies, portraying adversaries of Russia as corrupt or unworthy—can steer public sentiment in a favorable direction.

Finally, they’d avoid anything blatantly illegal or provable. The whole strategy would depend on plausible deniability. If it’s obvious, it fails.

The big picture: influence at that level isn’t about one shocking act—it’s about slowly tilting the system so that, over time, outcomes consistently benefit the other side.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

The visibility of all pro‑Ukrainian accounts, including mine, has dropped dramatically. Please help me fight the algorithm by visiting my profile and boosting posts about today’s Russian war crimes.

Pic for attention.

[reply guy @proreplyguy]

@unusual_whales Lmfao

[reply guy @proreplyguy]

@BohuslavskaKate Clown, indeed

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

The visibility of all pro‑Ukrainian accounts, including mine, has dropped dramatically. Please help me fight the algorithm by visiting my profile and boosting posts about today’s Russian war crimes.

Pic for attention.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

This was right after the shooting. Look at their faces. They are all smiling, laughing, and smirking. This is not how people react after a traumatic event. It is how people react after a staged event.

They are all in on the con and it’s about more than the ballroom. It’s about building the military bunker underneath to ensure in the event of a nuclear war the corrupt politicians who caused the war will survive while we all die.

We mean absolutely nothing to them. They use, abuse, lie, manipulate, and steal from us every day. Wake up before it’s too late.

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

Many thanks to @DavidAFrench for writing this piece, for having thought the issue through. It is one of the most important issues of our time. https://t.co/2rjVhNCs07

[Awni Hannun @awnihannun]

Adopting Claude speak in my regular life, episode 1:

Partner: Did you do the dishes tonight?
Me: Yes they're done.
Partner: Why are they still dirty?
Me: You're right to push back. I didn't actually do them.

[DBCrypto @DBCrypt0]

Raised 9 figures

Generates less revenue than a kid's lemonade stand

[Pepel Klaasa @pepel_klaasa]

Conservative estimates say that there are 40-100K Russian citizens who have come to live in Mariupol after occupation: including administration, private citizens who took mortgage or just bought real estate there.

Just imagine this:
- They killed around 100K civilians in Mariupol (estimates according to satellite imagery + morgue data – not possible to confirm while the city is occupied).
- Now they destroyed their graves (and previously just poured concrete over the bodies in the apartment buildings basements).
- They move in by THOUSANDS to live in the apartments of those dead people or those who cannot come back to confirm their property rights.

I just wish everyone could wrap their heads around these simple facts. Without any geopolitical points, grand ideas, and such. This is indeed THIS simple: people lived their lives, never attacked anyone, mostly spoke Russian, owned apartments and businesses and were generally happy with their lives. Russia took ALL of that away and either killed or virtually tortured the citizens into obedience, brainwashing their kids and substituting the Ukrainian population with Russians.
I have no freaking idea how anyone can support that. There is something deeply insect-like in it. Like a colony of ants moving into a neighboring ant house after killing its owners.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Trump: The World's Clown-in-Chief

Trump has turned U.S. foreign policy into a global joke, and world leaders are laughing behind his back.

Even America's closest allies can't hide their contempt. A senior Israeli official nailed it: trying to feed Trump's nonstop contradictions about the Iran war into ChatGPT would make the AI "implode." One day he's declaring total victory and phantom allied warships reopening the Strait of Hormuz. The next, he's inventing ceasefire talks that Tehran instantly mocks as fantasy. Threats, deadlines, walk-backs — it's all just another episode of the Trump Show.

Foreign officials now openly view him as a buffoon: erratic, incoherent, and dangerously incompetent. Europeans roll their eyes, Iranians churn out memes, and even the Israelis — who supposedly want a deal — are left baffled by the endless flip-flops.

This isn't "disruptive leadership." It's a clown running the world's most powerful military, turning serious crises into slapstick. Allies are confused, adversaries are amused, and America's credibility is the punchline.

Trump isn't feared or respected abroad. He's pitied — and quietly ridiculed — as the biggest buffoon on the international stage.