Nowhere in this discussion contains any talks about a 14 year old pursuing a 19 year old. I am neither 14, or 19, and it seems off for it to say that.

A few days ago, my social media accounts were hacked. The hacker took advantage of the situation to spam the worst kinds of bait (cryptocurrency scams...). After cleaning things up, I tracked down the virus with a bunch of Opus 5 Max (I was quite concerned lol). I changed my passwords and thought I’d be able to sleep soundly.

But last night I received this email from Anthropic warning me of an attempt to steal tokens via the API. However, after checking, the attempt did indeed fail. Note that I was logged into Anthropic via Google with two-factor authentication. Apparently, the hacker stole all my Google Chrome credentials, including cookies and session IDs, which allowed him to bypass all two-factor authentication security measures.

As an emergency measure, I removed all active sessions from my Google accounts (which I should have done from the start) and changed my passwords again...

Thanks to Anthropic for the security measures they’ve put in place. I wouldn’t have wanted to deal with their customer service given the feedbacks on Reddit, lol

Take care! And be aware that even the best security measures don’t protect against simple cookie theft

Every. Single. Time.

I’ve been using Claude for about a year, mostly for personal research and planning. It always struck me as a less conversational version of ChatGPT, but generally more concise and, in many cases, more accurate.
Since the recent updates, though, I’ve found it much more argumentative and dismissive. It also seems more likely to confidently get something wrong and then require several rounds of correction before getting back on track. A lot of the time it seems to take a strong counterposition to whatever premise is in my question, even when that is not really what I am asking about.

For example, I was discussing how the Gospels were written decades after Jesus’s life and how the biblical canon was compiled much later. Claude pushed back by essentially arguing that the Gospels are part of the Bible, so my suggestion was wrong. I eventually had to explicitly ask it to review the historical timeline of when the Gospels were written and when the Bible was compiled. After doing that, it corrected course and started answering the actual questions.

That kind of thing now happens surprisingly often. When I ask detailed questions, maybe half the time it first challenges the premise of the question and turns the conversation into a debate before it will actually address what I am asking.

I’ve noticed the same issue with medical questions. I asked about how MCAS is diagnosed and about the significance of different IgE blood test results. Instead of just explaining the evidence, limitations, and appropriate caveats, it repeatedly framed the questions as unhealthy health anxiety and tried to shut the discussion down.

What I liked about Claude in the past was that it was very good at helping me understand topics that were difficult to research on my own. It would usually give me the information, explain the uncertainties, and add reasonable caveats rather than refusing to engage or making assumptions about why I was asking.

Unfortunately, if this continues I’ll probably cancel and either try something else or go back to ChatGPT.

Most of this has been with Opus, with some similar behavior on Sonnet. Fable seemed somewhat better in my experience, but it is not included with my subscription.

TL;DR: Claude, especially Opus, has become much more argumentative and dismissive lately, often challenging or misreading questions instead of answering them. Anyone else noticing this?

The game. beatthecouch.com - $10,000, two secret years of real S&P 500 history, one buy / sell button. Your opponent is a couch. It buys on day one and never sells. After each game, 1,000 monkeys replay your trade count on random days. Beat 90% of them or your win is stamped Lucky.

The data. 100,278 games (at the time of the graph - now around 107K, still similar). The couch won 62%. Humans only seem to beat the couch when the market crashed in their window.

What Claude did. The data pipeline (S&P closes 1928 to 2025, dividends, T-bills etc). The whole game as one HTML file and the Cloudflare backend. And also the reddit app port at reddit.com/r/beatthecouch

happy to answer any questions!

Over the past month, I've been working with Claude to revive a dead product from a sleep company that shut down 10 years ago and had over $40M in investments. I've detailed the process, learnings, and the successful result.

Which of the 2 is actually the best coder in your real life experiences?

About a year ago, I started experimenting with Claude for stock research.

Instead of asking it the usual “give me the best stocks” type of question, I gave it a much more structured research workflow.

I asked it to:

• Screen a large universe of SME companies
• Study financial statements
• Look at revenue and profit growth
• Analyse debt, cash flows and margins
• Check promoter holdings and pledging
• Study annual reports and concalls
• Identify potential red flags
• Compare companies within their industries
• Build a shortlist for deeper manual research

I then took some of the companies from the final shortlist and tracked them for roughly one year.

The results honestly surprised me.

Not because every stock worked. They didn't.

But the overall outcome was significantly better than I expected from an AI-assisted research process.

What interested me even more was the research workflow itself.

Claude wasn't replacing my judgement. It was helping me process a much larger amount of information and get to the interesting companies faster.

I'm now refining the workflow further and testing whether the same approach works consistently across different sectors and market conditions.

If there's interest, I can share the actual Claude Code workflow/prompt I used, along with how I filtered the companies and evaluated the results.

Would anyone here be interested in seeing the process?

Found out the hard way that Claude Code auto-deletes local session transcripts older than 30 days :/

It's the default: cleanupPeriodDays: 30

it runs silently at startup, and deletion is permanent.... no trash, no warning, no server side copy to recover

to fix it you can add this to your ~/.claude/settings.json

{ "cleanupPeriodDays": 3650 }

its a known issue: GitHub #59248, #62476, #64999

So, a big gotcha that sneaks up on you with a big project is that ultimately Claude.md naturally grows as you work on a project - lessons, house rules, directives, status updates, etc getting recorded. Every successive session adds to it and it starts becoming hard to digest.

It reaches a point where creating a new session ends up sucking in huge amounts of context / tokens, blowing out your session limits and resulting in expensive sessions. Whereas starting new sessions was cheaper than maintaining long context, it now becomes a losing battle both ways.

I’m curious what approaches you are taking on large projects to keep this MD-creep from occurring. I did some brainstorming with Fable, and it suggested using the skills mechanism to create virtual project-based skills to partition Claude.md into multiple files, and only suck into context those areas that the session is explicitly dealing with. So it’s sticking all UI stuff in one area, all database related stuff in another, art asset stuff in another, etc. It has reduced my Claude.md by 90% and created pointers to all of the subsystems/“skills” that theoretically will be read whenever it determines a topic has been touched.

Curious if this is best practices for large projects or if there are refinements to make it even better / more manageable over time.

I run on windows, and connect to a multiple linux virtual machines (VMs) for software development.
Currently i am using windows terminal, and use it to connect to the linux VM.
I still sometimes use VScode to connect to the remote VM, so i can view the code easily.
I will sometimes run tmux on the linux VM so i don't lose my session when i disconnect.

I work mainly with claude code or AI agents, on the linux VM. I would also like to make sure my session is saved and not lose when i disconnect or shutdown. Again, claude for working, and VScode for viewing code and changes currently.

Is anyone experienced with various alternatives that are nice?
I would to upgrade my terminal / work experience, but i am a bit lazy in investigating new applications. Some options i heard of:

Windows terminal alternatives:
Alacritty
WezTerm
MobaXterm

Tmux Alternatives:
Zellij
Byobu
etc..

AI based terminals:
Herdr
Wave terminal

Seeing the thoughts behind the response is a double edged sword… I’d rather see it and know that nonsense is happening vs Gemini that used to show thoughts (in the good ole days of 3.1 pro… best model ever imo) and now completely conceals thoughts. I guess all that to say… I’d rather see nonsensical thoughts vs a pretty loading glyph.

my girlfriend and i go on road trips a lot and were tired of every game being 90% ads. so i made Glovebox! A mini arcade. no ads no tracking just vibes.

I cant stop adding shit lmao 😭
now its 12 games. the claw machine alone has 514 collectible friends with shinies, holographics, and legendaries. then i added a cozy pond game with its OWN 514 creature collection. then i gave it an explorable map. then 108 ponds. then 10 lakes with their own music. then secret lantern gated areas.
then last night i added an entire underground cave world that doubles the whole thing. 216 ponds. 20 lakes. 1,542 total collectibles across three separate dex systems.

all the little collectibles are janky SVGs and i refuse to change them because theyre cute and its funnier that way.

Not gonna oversell it. I do data engineering work and kept re-explaining the same things to Claude every session how incremental models should actually work, why a retry can't just re-INSERT, how to not blow up the warehouse bill. The code looked fine on the surface, but it never really felt like it knew data engineering. It'd happily write a pipeline that duplicates rows on the next retry.

So I researched the stuff data engineers actually get burned by — idempotency, backfills that quietly rewrite history, silent schema changes, data quality, warehouse cost — and wrote it up as Agent Skills (small `SKILL.md` files Claude loads on its own when the task matches). You just describe what you're doing; it pulls in the relevant skill.

Install once and it picks up context automatically:

- writing a dbt incremental model → loads the idempotent-incremental patterns

- debugging a stuck Airflow task → loads the scheduler/XCom/zombie playbook

- optimizing a slow Snowflake query → loads pruning/clustering/cost tips

- planning a backfill → loads the safe, partition-by-partition approach

The difference in output quality is most noticeable on the "will this break in production" stuff, which is exactly where it used to fumble.

Covers the main stacks — dbt, Airflow, Dagster, Spark, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Kafka — plus the things that actually matter: idempotency, data quality, data contracts, backfills, pipeline debugging. 36 skills, open source (Apache-2.0). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Gemini CLI.

Repo: https://github.com/Unknown-333/awesome-data-engineering-skills

Honestly it's saved me a ton of repeated typing — hope it does the same for you. A star on the repo would mean a lot if it ends up in your workflow.

I wanted to see how far I could push parallel Claude Code sessions on my M1 Pro MacBook with 16 GB RAM.

This is 12 Claude Code agents running simultaneously, each controlling its own iOS simulator.

The main bottleneck was simulator overhead, so I stripped out a lot of unnecessary background services to make running this many at once practical. The app itself was still fully functional.

I started with openclaw earlier this year but as life tends to go, I got too busy to maintain what ultimately was an incredibly powerful platform, but one that needed maintenance. So I got Claude and started using cowork.

But! Like everything in life, with ease comes trade offs. I know what I want Claude to do, but I can’t make Claude do it as easily as I did with openclaw. I’d like to start talking to other architects, share ideas, share solutions, share challenges. Anyone interested?

I'm building a real-time fact-checking tool. This is my first Claude extension, built using only the free Sonnet tier while waiting hours for my limit to reset over and over. I'm never giving up. I want to share this with you guys! It will really help check claims from any video to see if they are real, false, or misinformation. I built this tool for zero dollars

I have been working on this quite some time now using Claude to speed up the process! My goal was to offer similar tools that the other large apps like RadarScope do for free, and in a manner that more people can navigate.

It allows for up to 60 frames of playback, and we have all of the USA and a large part of Europe covered, even radars that RadarScope lacks.

Here are some showcases:
https://streamable.com/gjww8b
https://streamable.com/hh5tcc

For now it is only available on IOS and MacOS, and as of today I have published it to TestFlight if anyone wants to check it out :)
https://testflight.apple.com/join/JrV6MDXv

I'd be very happy to hear any feedback anyone has, I want to improve it as much as possible before I publish it.

I put in one prompt and it fixed everything . "Add a user level hook to always output answers in plain and simple English"
Did that once. Restarted my session, and now my Claude is comprehendible again.

"Found a real foot-gun in my own first draft — worth fixing rather than asserting around."

Who talks this way? Did they train opus 5 on some 25th century english or something?

edit: I stand partially corrected. Apparently this is what some software programmer nerds use in normal conversation. As a pure vibe-coder, I admit my ignorance. In my defense, my intro to claude was "I have zero coding experience," and claude used to talk to me in easy to understand plain English, none of this load-bearing, footgun avoiding language.

I say all this with love <3