I noticed that this week. I have a very straightforward claude command that lists exact steps to follow to fetch PR comments to bring them into the context window. Stuff like step one call gh pr view my/repo and it would call it with anthropiclabs/repo instead, it wouldn’t follow all the instructions, it wouldn’t pass the exact command I had written. I pointed out the mistake and it goes oh you are right! Then proceeded to make the same mistake again.
I used this command with sonnet 4.5 too and have never had a problem until this week. Something changed either in the harness or model. This is not just vibes. Workflows I have run hundreds of times have stopped working with Opus 4.5
I just hit 25 books read for the year which was my goal for 2025. To make it happen I did a few things:
- Listen to audiobooks when doing chores (dishes, laundry, mowing the lawn)
- Keep a book on me and use a bookmark. Being able to quickly open and read a page or two when I would normally doom scroll on my phone
- Rather than watch TV at night or play video games, read instead
- Use goodreads to track progress and add my friends who are readers to provide motivation and goal visualization.
This year has been quite enjoyable and I have found my reading tastes evolve over time. For a while I was reading books like the ones on this list, self-help, business/management/leadership focused, and memoirs. I then got bored and moved into fantasy, and now I have been getting into history.
Fascinating article. As I was reading it, particularly the part about his son John saying his father was very loving and was there for him, but also saying he did not like to be interrupted during his work or reading, and would say "Go away! I am reading!" immediately made me think he was quite narcissistic. His work was more important than even his own son. Later on his brother Dennis confirmed my suspicions that McCarthy was a narcissist. I have an insatiable curiosity as well and truly love learning, but in being a christian I have actively worked against my tendency to narcissism. A life like McCarthys sounds romantically fabulous, but when you think about the end of it, four people around your bed, it sounds tragic. There is something profound in sacrificially loving others and it doesn’t seem like Cormac experienced that. Though I am sure his wives, brother Dennis, and son John, did.
There's nothing wrong with having boundaries. Anyways, the quote goes on:
"But he was a great father, always there for me, and I learned so much from him. We would have these long conversations about science and history and music, and whatever else, and he was the funniest person I’ve ever met, just a natural comedian.” "
In my experience, transcription software has no problem with transcribing sped up audio, or audio that is inaudible to humans or extremely loud (as long as not clipped), I wonder if LLM transcription works the same.
The memory feature also can be a problem, it injects stuff into the prompt context that you didnt explicitly write with the intent it will help because it knows you are a python programmer so lets respond with a python script instead of our usual ffmpeg cli command.
The problem with OPs method is if the package gets updated, the icns file will get deleted, so you have to replace the icns file every time the app updates.
I used this command with sonnet 4.5 too and have never had a problem until this week. Something changed either in the harness or model. This is not just vibes. Workflows I have run hundreds of times have stopped working with Opus 4.5
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