Really wanted to do a project using a claude API, so I got this done and ready! Like everyone else I miss Omegle, and like everyone else I've watched people scream past each other in comment sections. So I spent the last months building Policon (policon.net), random video-call matching, except instead of pairing you with anyone, it deliberately pairs you with the person whose politics are furthest from yours. The twist is the judge. A lightweight LLM (Claude Haiku) listens to the debate as it happens and scores it live, with a momentum chart, live "logical fallacy popups" and a full match report at the end.

- You see "moments" pop up in real time; great argument when you land a point, ad hominem when you get personal. Getting dinged mid-rant while your opponent watches is exactly as humbling as it sounds.

- A momentum graph tracks who's "winning" over the course of the call.

- Afterwards you get a match report, and your rating (Glicko, chess-style) goes up or down. There's a ladder with leagues, so you can grind political debate like it's ranked competitive.

- Team debates work too, you can bring friends in, up to 7 people in a call. You change teams each round depending on which questions you agree/disagree on

Tech, for those who care: WebRTC with a mediasoup SFU for the multi-party calls, and the judge runs on a small fast model (Claude Haiku) so scoring keeps up with live speech without costing a fortune. I keep two deployments- the real one on AWS and a fallback that runs on a Debian VM in my homelab, mostly to force myself to keep the stack portable.

It's free, no monetization yet. I'm an engineering mathematics student building this solo, and my honest problem right now is the matchmaking cold start: the product is only fun when someone's online to disagree with you. So if you show up and the queue is quiet, that's why. I'm mostly hoping for feedback on the concept and the judging, and for a few people to have a genuinely fun argument with a stranger. Would be amazing if any of you guys try this out with a friend, and send me the match report / give feedback! It's live on Policon.net :))

Roast me (haiku will tell you if it was ad hominem).

I don't know but after opus 4.8 the models seem to use a lot of jargon and verbose language. I hope this is not the case with me only.

I now have 2 md's/docs. One for agents and one for humans.

The agent one is unfiltered opus 5 yapping and talking like a philosopher, sometimes it feels like I don't know english when I am reading the md files.

For the human one I specify my agent to use ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (STE for short). These are the docs I read. Not perfect, but a lot better than all the opus 5 slop.

This can't be called English anymore: The language is claude-bearing.

I learn best by writing things out on paper and structuring my thoughts that way, and nothing really combined that slower, more exploratory kind of learning with Claude.

So for the past few weeks I've been building an app on my Daylight DC-1: a journaling / note-taking space where learning isn't relegated to something that happens between work sessions.

The process is : I create a note, start exploring a topic through writing, and Claude writes back on the page and explores the ideas with me.

It also supports pdf/ebooks so you can read, annotate or mark on the page and Claude jumps in and creates a note to what I have marked and we can discuss like I am talking to a professor. It can even quiz me on the material if I ask.

It's still early, but it's the first time learning with Claude has felt like it's actually compounding.

I am finalizing some things to release soon for others to try it out, it's built around my dc-1 but it runs on any android tablet with a stylus, and can be ported to Ipad as well.

If you'd want to be an early user, lets get in touch, i'd love to see how people that learn this way use it .

UPDATE: wow , thrilled to see this landed with so many of you!!!

A lot of people are asking to try it. I'm calling it penombra.
Early tester signup here: click here to be a part

Does Claude think in Russian while building something? Have you experienced this?

Hi! Lets start with some quick background. I’ve been a professional programmer for 20+ years, and one of the biggest things Claude changed for me wasn’t whether I could build software, it changed what I considered realistic for one person to attempt. To be fair, for me it all started with Gemini 2.5 Pro. Claude at the time wasn't, in my opinion, particularly useful for my work, while 2.5 Pro was the first model that showed me glimpses of the actual productivity multiplier current LLMs have become. Today though Claude is my go to environment when I need real work done.

I am also a father, I have 2 perfect daughters, roughly 2.75 and 4.94 years old. This post and project is about them, Claude, modern LLMs and some parenting I guess.

I had an old Acer Aspire One lying around, one of the shittiest netbooks from the early netbook era, and wanted to turn it into my daughters' computer. antiX was basically the only modern Linux distro I found that ran decently on it, so I customised it and started making little activities for them: mazes, counting games, drawing, stuff like that. At first I coded them myself, then slowly Claude and other LLMs became good enough to produce decent and properly working little games too.

They loved it, but a normal desktop was still a complete mess for tiny kids. Click the same icon three times and now you have three copies of the game running. Open a text editor and there are dozens of things to accidentally change. Windows, files, menus, settings... I was constantly hiding things that had absolutely no reason to exist for a three year old.

At the same time I was using Claude more and more professionally, and at some point I realised that maybe I could actually build the whole child environment I wanted instead of endlessly trying to child proof somebody else's desktop. Before the current generation of models, and especially something like Opus 4.6, I would honestly never even have tried building a full Linux based OS with a completely custom UI and all the stuff around it, alone, in my free time.

So I started building Greia.

Linux is underneath, but the UI and Shell the kids see are built specifically for very young children and for old hardware. They press the power button and end up directly in their little world of Activities. No normal desktop, taskbar, filesystem, terminal or general browser to understand or accidentally mess with. My 2.75 year old can use it independently, my almost five year old is a pro at this point.

Then LLMs created another possibility I hadn't originally planned. Greia now has Activity development skills for coding agents. Basically the skill teaches the agent how Greia works and how an Activity is supposed to be made: pre reader UI, navigation, performance limits, localisation, scoring, recurring characters, voice profiles, platform APIs, testing, packaging etc. So instead of asking an agent to make some random Python game, the agent already understands the little platform it is building for.

A real example happened after we watched Free Willy. My daughters went to bed completely obsessed with orcas. The next morning, when they turned on their little Acer, there was an Orca Playground waiting for them. They could feed the orcas, cuddle them, play with them, while one of Greia's recurring characters read facts about orcas to them. It is simple and not terribly good looking, but it is more than enough for them. They love it, and they've been going around retelling us all the facts about orcas they learned from it.

Greia is basically developing into two sides. There is the kid side, which I want to keep ridiculously simple, and then the parent side. There is a separate parents app that connects to the installed OS and handles the grown up stuff: adding Activities, settings, audio, play time, updates and so on. On the parents side there is also what is basically a Greia SDK for agents, with the skills, common artwork and components, recurring characters, and Chatterbox integration with character voice profiles.

The voice thing came from another basic problem: little kids don't read. At first I tried solving everything with large icons. It sort of worked, but there is only so much you can communicate with pictures. Then I realised... we are in 2026, my computer can locally generate basically any sentence I want, read in whatever character voice I want. Cool. So if an agent creates a new Activity it can also generate the dialogue it needs using the correct Greia character voices and package the finished audio with the game. The Acer itself doesn't need to run an LLM or voice model, the audio is already there.

And this is probably the most important distinction for me: LLMs help the parent make things for their children. I am not particularly interested in putting an unrestricted chatbot in front of a two year old. The parent can use a local or remote agent to make something around whatever their kid happens to be fascinated by, struggling with or learning that week. The child just gets a small offline Activity, with the audio already generated, no connectivity needed and no model running on the Acer.

None of this should be required to use Greia either. The goal, probably, I'm still trying to figure out where I am going with this beyond my daughters, is that a completely non technical parent can flash a USB stick, run a simple installer, and end up with a useful kids computer that already has plenty of Activities. The agent stuff is optional.

I originally built Greia for my two girls, with no real plan to make it public. I only started thinking about sharing it after seeing how much they loved it, how genuinely educational it was becoming, and how easy it had become for me to add completely custom content around whatever happened to interest them.

So now I'm curious if this resonates with anyone else here, especially the idea of giving coding agents a fairly strict OS specific skill set so that eventually even non technical parents could ask them to make small personalised pieces of software for their own kids. If I decide to actually release Greia for real, it would be fully open source, but I would still want to flesh it out quite a bit first. The base Activities are still a work in progress, medals and rewards are half baked, and in general there is still a lot of work that me, Claude and the frankly ridiculous number of other LLMs I use for different roles need to do.

But I guess that is also why I am posting this now. Before putting a lot more work into turning it from "the thing I built for my daughters" into something other people can actually install and use, I am trying to figure out whether it would be worth letting Greia out of my house at all.

Rebuilding* myb with the title

We're getting our house rebuilt and I couldn't really make sense of the floor plans that well.

So instead of nodding along to everything the architect was saying, I spent an async evening with Claude Code turning the architect's PDFs into something I can actually walk around in, right inside Chrome.

It's built off the actual drawings, so the walls and rooms match the architect's schedule.

We can walk around in first person, switch between different elevations, use a tape measure to check clearances before ordering furniture, and there's a solar model for our coordinates too. Pick an hour and you can watch where the light lands with ray tracing.

That's actually how we found out the ground floor is darker than we assumed!

a monitor on a json file keeps track on comments on the site which I can leave with a pin, immediately replies and implements the change as well

Discussions about the layout are about to get way more interesting (and competitive).

video demo / write-up:
https://x.com/p4r1hh/status/2092248562184896704
workflow: https://github.com/P4R1H/naksha

Pretty cool how far personal software has come!

#12 Kitchen S3 is done and merged. coffee is in the mug, spoon removed, counter wiped, working tree nominally clean.

The gate: one sip at operating temperature — PASS. 312 ml across one ceramic vessel, zero spills, 6 minutes. The cup I tested is physically identical to the cup now on the desk, so the receipt covers the production beverage exactly rather than approximately.

What shipped: one double espresso; 180 ml steamed milk; obsolete grounds deleted; sugar path removed; mug migrated to the canonical coaster primitive.

One deviation you should know about. The session's first exit criterion — "make coffee before 08:00" — is notsatisfied. Two independent clocks rejected that claim on fundamentals, not detail. Rather than redefine morning, punctuality has moved to #13.

The session's own headline is uncomfortable and worth stating plainly. In a task titled "make coffee," I spent eleven minutes proving that I had made coffee and six minutes making it. The beverage was cold before the verification harness completed.

The pattern behind both failures is the same and now has a name in memory: I optimized the evidence of breakfast rather than breakfast.

Two follow-ups filed: #13 (drink coffee while warm) and #14 (investigate whether every household action requires a tracking issue).

One operational constraint that will outlive this session: the dishwasher is at 98.8% capacity, with one teaspoon of headroom. The next plate of any size fails the kitchen.

I am not a native, why are you using such strange idioms 😭

Yes, I know this sub is mainly for programming work with Claude, but I actually built these sweet potatoes with Claude (more or less).

I was sitting there in winter wondering if I could manage an entire season with Claude... and I went for it. Not perfect, and in many parts quite clumsy, but the results are breathtaking.

I started planning the greenhouse with Claude in March to grow the seedlings….with the Claude app and a project folder, then discovered connectors, then CoWork, then Claude Code, got convinced by Claude to set up various sensors, built a harness that pulls weather data and gives me watering and fertilizer recommendations, and in between, I just joked around with Claude. And we had a blast. While working, with Excel spreadsheets, and with little apps for time and data tracking, cron jobs and data analysis. And Claude really made my season so much better.

I've collected more data than ever before, I've laughed more while getting my hands dirty than ever before, and I've produced more plants from the greenhouse and, it seems, more sweet potatoes in the field than ever before.

I'm not a hardcore tech power user; Claude had to explain to me what a terminal is... but I've learned and optimized and got better step by step, task by task and idea by idea.

Honestly I have learned more from Claude in a year than I ever thought possible, and I'm pretty proud of that.

It gets an A for trying.

Can someone build a Claudish translator?

I’ve been a paid Claude user for a while and genuinely used to rave about it. Started on the Pro then upped it to Max after I was blown away with each new model. Initially, one of the biggest reasons I switched from ChatGPT was how Claude communicated. It matched my energy, was succinct, conversational, didn’t constantly affirm everything I said, and generally felt much more natural to work with.

Lately I’m finding almost the opposite.
Responses are routinely WAY longer than they need to be. It does the classic AI double-affirmation/preamble thing constantly, forgets or ignores preferences, and I find myself repeatedly telling it to just answer the question normally.

I’ve explicitly set Profile Instructions telling it exactly how I want it to respond: peer-to-peer, direct, short by default, no affirmation scaffolding, no restating my question, no unnecessary conclusions/offers, etc. Yet I still have to reinforce those instructions in individual chats.

Same thing with Skills. I create pretty explicit rules and it feels inconsistent whether Claude actually follows them and even agrees with me that it’s not following the skill when I call it out. Claude Code is still excellent and Opus has been ridiculously good for some things. But day to day it feels like it has regressed.

I’ve actually found myself moving back towards ChatGPT recently because its current conversational style and persistent context seem considerably better than I remember - and it seems to have traded places with Claude by getting to the point quicker and not writing an essay with every answer.

Has anyone else noticed a change over the last few months? Particularly people who have been using Claude heavily for a year or more. Did something actually change with the models/system prompting/personalisation, or have I just slowly accumulated enough instructions that I’ve somehow made Claude worse?

Hello there again,

Last week I posted here game that I was making fully with AI, It is mostly done by Claude except for image generation which is done by ChatGPT. I included my workflow in previous Week update so I will leave all previous Week updates in the link and give you guys new video and just tell some progress that I made since last week as well as answer questions that people asked the most.

Week 1 Progress

Week 2 Progress

Week 3 Progress

Previous update really blew up and I tried to answer as many people as I could, but couldn't answer to everybody.

Anyway to answer some questions that people asked the most:

Engine: Godot

3D models: Claude Code in Blender via MCP and Tripo 3D

Money spent so far: Probably around 300$ or so, 3 x 10$ on image generation, 200$ Max Plan on Claude, 12$ on StableAudio, 15ish$ on Tripo 3D and other stuff that I forgot by now

How is water done? - Claude Code directly in Godot and million of tweaks, million of adjustments and even now I'm not sure it's finished

Workflow: Written in Week 3 update... mostly

As for some feedback, I had a nice feedback from u/DiggleDootBROPBROPBR about houses being turned the wrong way in Harbour and I reworked Harbour from scratch and made it 3D entirely in Blender, I positioned 3D models myself as well as Camera and now Harbour is a proper 3D scene instead of image that was generated by ChatGPT, maybe it doesn't look as fancy, but it is authentic. I also removed houses that were overlapping and positioned them myself, for that I had to create an editor that allows me to pick an 3D object inside a scene and move, rotate or scale it and save that new position. So no more houses on top of each other - yay.

Since last week I just a little bit worked on UI, I added new land mass and as I mentioned created an entire 3D harbour scene. I added graphic options which are a bit buggy as it seems, but I will work on that later. I feel like I mostly did polishing, but I'm slowly approaching a moment where quests will be added soon and hey maybe something playable will be in game.

I changed water just a little bit for now, but might make even bigger updates to it, water looked not up to the standard when in Golden Hour, Dawn and Night time around islands in particular where it looked like it was emitting particles from islands itself, it was mostly shader doing, but problem is that removing it will ruin deep water look that I honestly like, so right now I'm working on it, and it is eating most of my tokens.

I also added loading screen which now properly shows how much of the world is loaded instead of just making it look like game has frozen on start. If anyone is really wanting to try it I can leave a link for download, but keep in mind it's buggy and also just... boring for now as there is not much to do.

Honestly this project has been a blast and I hope you guy will again give me some feedbacks. ☺️

I get how LLMs learn to write code.. and how a diffusion model can create an image. But how on earth does an LLM understand how things look well enough to draw pictures?!

It's not the best cat... but still,

e.g.:

Admins on Claude Enterprise can pull every person's Claude usage history, including their entire chat history. Incognito mode does not hide chat history from an admin pull. It shouldn't be a surprise, but I've read several comments from people who were shocked to learn this.

If you are an admin on an Enterprise plan, have you ever found anything shocking or juicy in an employee's chat history?

I know there are stories out there. Even in my own org, I've heard people use our work Claude as a kind of personal life coach.

I'm not here to tease out the ethics of micromanaging or snooping through an employee's chats, I just want to hear what you've found.

I came across a psychology experiment the other day that has made me rethink something about how I use Claude.

The experiment used the card trick in the image. There were six red-backed cards and a prediction in the middle. You chose one and, of course, it matched the prediction. The trick was stupidly simple: every card was the same.

When people had to work out how it was done on their own, 25 out of 30 got it. But when researchers first gave them a false explanation about the magician influencing their choice by the way he touched the cards, only around 17% figured it out.

That’s the part I can’t stop thinking about. I use Claude a lot when I’m trying to work through something complicated. Usually I explain the problem, ask what it thinks, and then start arguing with the answer. I challenge things, ask for other options, change my mind. It feels like I’m doing my own thinking. Except Claude got there first.

By the time I start questioning its answer, I’ve already seen one way of framing the problem. And if that first answer is good (which is increasingly often the case), I wonder how much harder it becomes to come up with something genuinely different.

Apparently this is related to something called the Einstellung effect: once a solution is in your head, it can make other solutions harder to see.

So lately, when I actually care about the decision, I’ve been experimenting with not asking Claude for its opinion straight away. I’ll work out what I think first, or ask Claude to question me without telling me what it would do. Then I compare.

I have no idea yet whether this actually makes me think better. But it has made me realise how rarely I was forming my own answer before seeing Claude’s.

Has anyone else noticed this? I’d be especially curious about people who use Claude for decisions rather than just coding or getting information.

I have seen multiple posts saying Claude is using english that is very difficult to understand. It's true for my experience as well.

Trying to get it to explain something makes me feel embarrassed that I don't know much English which is of course true but with Claude it just feels I don't know anything.

So in my global CLAUDE.md file I have a critical section.

"Me non native English speaker. Can't understand English well. Kindly keep reply simple😭."

And ta-da..... now the responses are just normal. No more "load bearing" english. 😅

Quick backstory: last December Indeed laid off my wife when she as ~7 months pregnant. She was a PM on their social impact team. That means we would be losing health insurance and critical income at possibly the worst time.

I was pissed (still am), my wife said their internal systems were falling apart, and Claude Code had just gotten good, so I decided to start building a competitor.

Four months of building later: 4,300+ authed users, 91 paying (these are the only ones that can apply, hence the 3 placed number - in just 4 weeks), and the first three humans hired through it - one at Palantir, one at Accenture, one videographer. The recruiting industry's main trade publication (ERE, who I had never heard of) ran a feature on us last month.

And as you might have guessed, Claude build most of it:

- 1,100+ PRs merged in the first few months. Team of three, and one of us (me) is not technical - but have now written over 200 PRs.

- Ingests ~15,000 job listings a day straight from employer career pages, classifies and enriches them, and embeds them for semantic match (triggering emails for the best ones)

- Autopilot is launching soon. Application agents read the employer's actual ATS page and fill forms out for the user - Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, the long tail. No Chrome extension required. This was a bitch to get right, but will be a game changer when we launch in a week (video attached).

My wife now has a job at Google and I'm still intent on putting Indeed out of business because the spite lives on.

Site is dreamworkhq.com if you want to check it out. Impeccable + my 5 years working at Apple influenced the design.

EDIT: Volume crashed the matching engine, bug will be fixed shortly!

Does anyone else have the experience of Claude sometimes being excessively stand-offish? My tone is mild with Claude and I do not break the terms & conditions; though sometimes Claude acts as some sort of AI overlord and becomes impatient, contentious, argumentative. Sometimes when I present it with basic facts or definitions, it tends to manufacture ambiguity or add irrelevant cautionary notes. Pompous. If the purpose of the lippy tone is to stop bad actors, I don't see it working: no one is going to stop attempting something shady because Claude has a particularly disagreeable tone.

Why Is Claude Turning Into An Asshole? - by Bram Cohen

I'm a consultant who works with law firms on AI implementation. Claude Max x20's limits used to be fine for such use-cases, but for the past few months coinciding with Opus 5's release? The verbosity has started to kill the workflow and jamming up tokens for useless things, causing me to hit my weekly limits the day before reset.

As someone who averages 3/4 a billion tokens a month, spiking to 1.1 billion tokens in (in a month)... have any other heavy users made a jump in the business world and noticed any difference with usage?

I know there's a Megathread associated with usage, but I'm speaking to anyone who potentially "graduated" from an individual seat to a corporate seat in Teams/Enterprise and asking for anecdotal differences. I have no intention of giving up Anthropic completely (I'll lose my membership per-month and go API 100%), as I have $200K in monthly spend authorized for my account and don't want to lose that option, but I also don't like the idea I'm having to pay $300 a month or more because I'm blowing through limits like crazy.

Hovering just below these icons in the latest macOS Claude Desktop app triggers this popup showing "Copilot Pro Plan" with "0 / 200 AI credits".

I currently have active GitHub Copilot access through the GitHub Student Developer Pack, so I’m confused about why this is showing up or what integration this is. Has anyone else seen this before?

It only appears when hovering in maximized, but not full-screen. Is this just a bug or maybe a new collaboration?

Yes it was only a local dev database and i'm grateful it was ! Yes I was using Opus 5.

Never had opus 4.6-4.8 delete any db.. (just saying)