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Re:Boris Cherny says "delete your Claude.md every 6 months" on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @02:26AM (#49094035)
`claude --bare --system-prompt ""` is a good starting point!
Re:Claude Opus 5 on Friday July 24, 2026 @02:11PM (#49039548)
It's very common to use a lesser model for a lesser task, resulting in same quality output. End result: save money while being faster. In many cases, it's a pure win-win.
Re:Claude Opus 5 on Friday July 24, 2026 @02:09PM (#49039529)
not just that -- "less" ($$$) can also result in indistinguishable quality for some tasks/inputs. I'd argue this is the primary reason, secondary being speed.
Re:Tested Kimi K3 for Coding on Monday July 20, 2026 @02:14PM (#48982656)
Author couldn't be bothered to compare any other models? ok man
I've been building and testing my iOS app just for fun via Linux only.

Surprisingly, it's very easy. This works like a charm: https://github.com/xtool-org/xtool

You do not need to upload to TestFlight or the App Store; you can just install the app locally to your iPhone via usb -- even from Linux!

When in doubt, just ask your coding agent of choice to help you create and upload a Hello World iOS app. It's really easy.

Re:Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI on Thursday June 18, 2026 @04:11PM (#48590861)
Re:Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization? on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @02:01PM (#48559332)
That's what happens when you have leaderboards and internal spend rankings/comparisons. This isn't just a Meta thing; many companies are tracking tokens as performance metric but we all know this by now. :D
Re:Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization? on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @01:53PM (#48559175)
Zuck literally said that he wants folks with higher intelligence on the Applied Intelligence team. And the best way to do that was to move folks internally, since they were "intelligent" enough to pass the Meta interviews.

Soooo, yes it is a waste of resources ($$$). But this was the initial intention.

Re:macOS Container Machines on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @09:58PM (#48470369)
Just tested it on on an OCI image with systemd and it works well. I can see the appeal of OrbStack regarding memory reallocation and will stick with it in the time being :)
Re:macOS Container Machines on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @09:47PM (#48470273)
Apple says that `systemctl` is supported... hmm am I missing something?

"Real Linux services for testing. Run a database or whatever your stack needs as a system service — systemctl start postgresql works on images with systemd installed."

Re:macOS Container Machines on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @09:45PM (#48470259)
I really like OrbStack and am also not sure why I'd use Container Machines over it, at the moment...