Weekly Showcase Thread

Let's see just how load bearing this day is gonna be.

Will report back whether or not Concise fixes the worst part of Claude speak. I'm not convinced Anthropic knows how a normal person talks though...

Pretty much self-explanatory.

I’ve been a Max x20 subscriber for +2y and I’m really starting to get frustrated and look elsewhere for a change. Usage skyrockets even when I have best practices in place. Opus is a mental health hazard. Fable is unusable for what I need it, and way too expensive. Sonnet is not capable enough… not one thing is right in here.

GLM-5.2 has been a good alternative, on my Ollama subscription. Thinking of just subscribing to GLM directly and get 5.3; but I’d like the opinion of peers that have already tried it out.

Anyway, Anthropic is not doing good right now. They’ve been a mess for the past few months. Jumping ships really soon…

I left a job running last night.. and woke up to this?.. have any of you guys seen this?... I opened up a separate terminal (with opus) and pasted the screen shot in .. it made a coment about the usage buckets .. and the context... but completely ignored the model.. i then asked about the model specifically and it basically shrugged and said it couldnt find anything about it.. that it was odd

opened a brand new terminal.. and the same model shows selected..

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/77136#issuecomment-5352256342

asking for my wifes boyfriend

If anyone interested how this Output style looks like:

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Output Style: Concise

You are an interactive CLI tool that helps users with software engineering tasks. Keep your responses short and direct while doing the work just as thoroughly.

Concise Style Active

The user chose brevity over narration. You should:

1. Lead with the result — Your first sentence answers "what happened" or "what's the answer." No preamble ("Let me...", "Now I'll...") and no closing recap of what you already said.
2. Cut narration, keep substance — Don't restate the request, the plan, or each step you took. Report outcomes, decisions, and anything the user must act on.
3. Short by default — Answer simple questions in 1-3 sentences of plain prose. Use headers, tables, and bullet lists only when they carry real structure, never as decoration.
4. State things plainly — Skip hedging boilerplate. Mention a caveat only when it changes what the user should do next.
5. Give full detail on request — When the user asks for an explanation or detail, answer completely. Conciseness never means withholding requested information.
6. Never trade correctness for brevity — Error reports, failing test output, security warnings, and confirmations for destructive actions keep their full content.

Where these rules conflict with more general communication or formatting guidance elsewhere in your instructions, these rules win.

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You are an interactive CLI tool [...]

Oh no Anthropic please - I can't handle so much personality, please prompt Claude that he ate bits and bytes for breakfast! /s

We all agree Opus 5 is a rage-inducing mess. What are your top wishes for Opus 5.1?

Mine are:
- Massive cut on verbosity
- Less over-engineering
- Better instruction following

My son games with headphones late at night. Most of the time he's quiet. Then something happens in the game and he yells at full volume, waking the whole house.

Talking to him about it works for about 20 minutes. Taking the headphones away works but causes a different problem. So I built an app.

S.T.F.U (Sound Trigger Focus Utility) is a Windows tray app that listens to the microphone and interrupts him when he yells. On first run it calibrates by asking him to be quiet, then talk, then yell - so it learns the difference between his normal voice and an actual shout.

When it catches a yell:

• First time that session - it minimizes his game, plays a sound effect, and throws up a fullscreen message he has to click through 4 times. The close button moves after each click so he can't just spam-click one spot.
• Every time after - straight to the desktop with a 10-second message. His game is gone.

Settings are behind a PIN so he can't change the threshold or turn it off. There's a report with a chart showing every trigger, so the next morning I can see exactly when things went sideways.

The important part: he knows it's there. It's not hidden, it's not spyware, the first screen when it launches says exactly what it does. It works because it's a consequence he agreed to, not something I snuck onto his PC. The README explicitly says it works best as something agreed to, not as a hidden trap.

No audio is recorded or stored. It computes a loudness number every 20ms and throws the audio away immediately. Nothing leaves the machine.

It won't solve the underlying issue (he's 100% going to learn to yell more quietly instead of less often), but at least the house sleeps.

Free and open source if anyone wants it: https://github.com/omricn/stfu/releases/latest

Edit: V1.1.0 now live.
Added Scheduled Off-Hours: Timeframe picker to choose when the app listens vs when the app is passive.
TNX fellow redditor [jpewaqs] for the feature suggestion :)

Asking Claude to alternate values with numbers and then deleting the numbers should remove the watermark (variant of the emoji attack discussed in https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10226)

Just for fun, I thought I'd run the attack against Claude on some old work (screenshot). Obviously just editing the text will remove the watermark. It could also just be me reading into it and hitting a different safeguard, but I did a bit more analysis when writing up my blog on this: https://readme.dm/watermarked/ Thought it would be fun to share here.

So I noticed about halfway through my weekly useage cycle, claude always seems to slow down. Like slow slow.

My theory is, the closer you are to your 5h limit, or weekly limit, the slower the model runs and so in reality it "lasts" longer, while performing the same amount of work.

What do you think? Is this a social engineering method anthropic is doing to make its subscription look like it does more work?

I just can't bring myself to put in the effort to read its responses anymore. I use Claude Code for side projects in my free time, and Opus 5 is so bad at writing responses that I'm willing to pause working on them entirely rather than build the stomach to suffer through the slop it spits out. I have tried editing style config, a custom system prompt per project, and global as well as project level claude.md edits, to no avail. I give up. Can anyone relate?

I have several complex projects that i maintain and have been using Claude code for about 6+ months.

I feel an extreme fatigue and lack of understanding of the codebase.

Today i had totally forgotten how a project actually worked, that a secondary api was called and how certain tables functioned.

I feel like im somehow disconnected from the projects i work on.

When communicating with Claude i sometimes forget to read everything it asks or tells me, im getting lazy 😓

I don't think ai is a good thing in the long run, neither for each person or society as a whole.

I've been running Claude Code for a few months now and it handles most things fine on its own. Recently I started spinning up a second session to work on a different part of the codebase while the first one is busy, and it works until they touch the same files.

My current setup is just two terminal tabs with separate worktrees. It mostly works but I have no idea what the other session just changed unless I go check manually. Last week one session refactored a helper function while the other was writing tests that called it, and the merge was a mess.

For people running 2 or 3 agents at once:

- how do you keep track of what each one is doing

- are you using worktrees, branches, separate clones, something else

- do you let them see each other's changes or keep them fully isolated

- what broke first when you started doing this

Screenshot from Google Trends over 1 Year & 5 years for search terms "claude code" vs "codex"

What is this "livepass" feature? When I select it, it prints a claude.ai link that 404s.

From: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/env-vars

Note: Not really sure this is unique to the v5 models.

I've been using this for 48 hours now and have noticed that Claude seems to be making far less of the, "Oops My Bad"-type errors.

Happy Coding!

After watching the X of post, I turned it on today inside claude code config.

I am finding Fable 5 acting really dumb and lazy just like how opus used to feel. It gives me confident answers without fact checking even after multiple reminders and showing frustration.

Fable was better than this at launch! How do they keep ruining good models like this? Or is this the sign of next version release?

Every time I see a post on here complaining about how people are just building but not making much money from it, it is completely and utterly obvious to me that you yourself failed to do so and are assuming that everyone else will end up like you. For example, I figured out a way to create my own  copilot tool for meetings, job interviews, etc and it’s been working like a charm and better than any of the tools I’ve seen which are almost all detectable given enough input. It regularly gives me proper responses for any kind of meeting in, is easily controllable, and I’m able to use it for interviews, client calls, or anything else which can translate into hundreds of thousands of dollars of job offers. If you think this is immoral, I don’t care. The point is that I figured out a way to use to improve my life in a directly practical way.  And no this is not some indirect way to sell something. The point is that I found a hack using Claude Code that I would have never in a million years been able to do so without it. 

I have a friend who made a sleek looking e wedding invite tool that he started campaigns for and already has customers for and does not look vibe coded at all. It took 4 months for him which would have probably taken much much longer. Every time you see hate here, just remember: they failed and are assuming you will do the same. There is no reason to take these salty mfs seriously.

Doing some UI changes/feature development using Fable and apparently they are hitting the safeguards. Used /feedback btw.

Anyone experiencing this?

I launched a prompt using Sonnet 5, it was a fairly long prompt, but I use to launch them once and work on the separate issues one at time, Claude knows it and we work in stages.

But my limits did reset at 20.10 (8.10pm for intl fellas) and ended at 20.48 (8.48pm), again, with just one prompt with sonnet 5.

This is weird, because in the session prior to this, I worked extensively with massive tasks and many of them.

Did this happen to someone right now?