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Friday Fun Thread for April 10, 2026

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I've... picked up a Claude Max 20x plan. No, I can't disclose how I acquired it, though I didn't have to pay a cent (and it's all legit). It's so fucking good, but at the same time, the more I use Opus 4.6, the more I'm impressed by how close Sonnet 4.6 gets. Sure, Opus is legitimately better, but the difference is nowhere near as stark as say, Gemini Flash vs Pro, or GPT's Thinking or Instant mode. Anthropic cooked, and I can't wait to try Mythos when the version for plebs comes out.

PS: If anyone has a good guide to Claude Code or agentic setups, I need one. I have some serious experimentation to do while I have it.

Last time you solicited requests for AI tasks the motte crashed for like a full day.

I'd say work on TheMotte bug fixes if I was being perfectly altruistic.

What I personally want is my own personal incremental game, cultivation setting, time loop, etc.

I mean, I could take a crack at that, but I'm far from good enough a programmer to vouch for the results. Plus I have legitimate work I need to do while I have access (I have no real reason to continue paying for Max after my plan expires).

Right now, AI agents genuinely benefit enormously from having a competent human in the loop. The best I ever got was solving a Leetcode medium in Python. And that was 4 years back. This isn't a total blocker, the models are good enough even with a dummy in charge, but I wouldn't want to burden Zorba with code that isn't of sufficient quality (not saying it'll be bad, I just don't have a robust way to know).

Honestly, if someone shares a good guide to CC, I have more tokens than I know what to do with. I could spin it up to work in the background, when I'm not actively putting it to work.

Oh. I remembered correctly. Zorba has set AI loose on the code base and he says it contributed most of the recent performance gains:

thankfully modern AI basically solves all of these, the performance gains were mostly thanks to Claude writing tools to give me info that I needed to pass right back to Claude, with some contribution from me nudging Claude towards sensible dev practices

That's from the Discord, a month back.

(I do not think I'm the right person to nudge Claude towards sensible dev practices)

  1. Source. Basically, for large open source projects, an application for max 20x for 6 months free can be made. I am unsure about its applicability for themotte. Details in the source.

i am just thinking aloud without actually deeply thinking about your situation. so ignore it, if it is too whacky.

  1. one way is that you allow someone else (whom you trust very much) to use it from your system. vnc or something. OR put a virtual machine, install a windows or linux machine, and allow ssh into it. OR put a cloud virtual machine and allow ssh into it from outside. this way, your account remains in your control, your password remains always yours, so it never gets shared with anyone else.

Good guess, but not the route I took. I'm not a talented OSS dev pretending to be a mediocre psychiatry resident.

Honestly, I'd be open to splitting a subscription longterm with someone. It would have to be someone I knew reasonably well and could trust (and there are plenty of people like that on this site). And ideally I wouldn't want to pay more than $20 for my share, which I think is fair because I'm not a glutton for tokens. I didn't pay for Opus because I'm already subscribed to comparable models from competitors, and I can't switch entirely because I like OAI and Google's image gen capabilities.

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