Data Donkey

It's not a debt crisis. It's a dollar crisis.

@AIandDesign @konnydev Any tips for applying your method to salvage sloppy codebases? Once they get too big I can't seem to stop the hallucinations.

@konnydev You will love it. If you do this religiously your projects will be so much better. I strongly believe this methodology will yield gains even for people who don’t know much about coding at all. But even more for those who do of course!

Hot take: Vibe coding is useless when it’s a bigger project.

@jasperbyrne Following your journey!

i have been working on this game for over 14 years. if all goes to plan, there will be an official announcement this year...

@lucas_montano Its been trash for weeks now. It used to handle massive tasks, now it tells me ive used up my skills budget for anything that requires a little more thought.

as i know Anthropic engineers will say they don't nerf models, and i wanna believe that by “nerfed” i mean whatever bug this might be it just can’t reason at max is anyone else having this issue?

at this very moment Claude was nerfed i’m using max effort and it’s just dumb like never before

@Colaelbeba @apathyDEFI @rabbitholebot A new grad still on his parents' insurance just explained family finances to a 47-year-old father. Wait til you get the bill bro.

@DataDonkeyX @apathyDEFI @rabbitholebot First of all use yoe. For example Michigan, 16-25 yoe nets a median of $250k michbar.org/file/pmrc/pdfs…. Additonally, the fact that you think it takes even $4k month conservatively to maintain a family shows you're wayyy outta touch

Okay let's be generous and say this attorney is making 180k. That's above median for lawyers but sure. After taxes that's about 10,500/mo take home. Subtract 3,600. Now there's 6,900 left to run an entire life. Health insurance, groceries for a family of four that eats more every year, two cars, gas, utilities, internet, phone bills for the whole family now because your 15 year old needs one for school, life insurance, the dog's vet bill, sports fees, cleats that fit for five months, SAT prep, car insurance for a teenager who just got their license. That's conservatively 4,000-5,000/mo just keeping the wheels on. Nothing fancy. No vacations. No fun. So now there's maybe 2,000 left and you're 47 with nowhere near enough in retirement. Out of that comes little Johnny's broken arm, braces, a blown transmission, prom, an aging parent who needs help, your daughter's club volleyball tournament three states away, a laptop for school that just died. Pick two maybe three in any given month and it's gone. One bad month and it's credit card debt. Two bad months and you're pulling from the retirement you already aren't funding enough. That's at 180k. Median lawyer pay is closer to 130k. At that number you're cooked. Divorced? She got the house. You got every other weekend and a court order to keep paying for a life you're no longer allowed to live. And then people wonder why men are struggling. This guy went to law school, passed the bar, showed up every day for 20 years, did everything he was told to do, and at 47 a $3,600 bill STILL keeps him up at night. And instead of asking why that is, people like you mock him on the internet for not being rich enough.

@DataDonkeyX @apathyDEFI @rabbitholebot Bro I can afford $3600 a month as a new grad. A lawyer 20 years into their career should be clearing $200k minimum, more than enough to afford that

@apathyDEFI @rabbitholebot Noy every lawyer is wealthy. Also, $3,600 a month is a lot even if you make good money IMO.

@rabbitholebot At 47 and lawyer but can’t afford $3600/month? 🧢🧢make the stories atleast somewhat believable next time please.

@Rainmaker1973 But Windows XP was released in 2001..

Windows XP wallpaper in 1996 vs 2025

@razib_ul47671 Ai

Everyone’s hyped about Claude… but very few people know how to actually use it to replace real work. I’ve compiled 700+ powerful prompts that turn Claude into a serious productivity machine—for writing, research, business, marketing, coding, and more. If you want them all: 1. Like this post 2. Comment “AI” I’ll DM you the full prompt library. 🚀

@Moritz__Gross @Miles_Brundage I'm right there with you

@Miles_Brundage I'm *this* close going back to ChatGPT as my main workhorse after Claude randomly timing out the 3rd time today

I'm a bit worried Anthropic has an org-wide case of AI psychosis that makes them think Claude is good enough that they can ship random product features without breaking things, but in fact they *do* keep breaking things, and they're not online enough to notice people complaining

@khanaamir1102 @AnthropicAI @claudeai I'm right there with you - thinking about cancelling my Max subscription.

Hey @AnthropicAI @claudeai I’m a paid user but keep hitting: “Claude reached its tool-use limit for this turn.” Even simple tasks fail, yet usage is deducted and no output is returned. Why charge for failed responses? Any fix or way to avoid this? This is impacting dev work.

@Nick_LoGalbo Ancient wisdom.

@DataDonkeyX That's very poetic and inspiring

Due to financial reasons I'm back to working full-time (+ overtime) in a factory. And it's a lot harder to bring myself to work on my game every day when I'm already exhausted from doing physical labor for 10+ hours a day. But I'm trying. I'm really trying guys. I am determined to both finish my game AND provide for my family. No matter how hard it is.

@GrainStats Translation: get ready for a prolonged engagement, probably years.

if that happens, oil to $100?

@GrainStats I hope you win! (pictured)

@DataDonkeyX ofc, just playing 🥲

“where do you see yourself in 20 years”

@GrainStats Thank you for the PSA. This was not on my radar.

just a heads up, X (twitter) has opened up their API to allow pay-per-use scraping, posting and messaging to anyone as long as it does not break their terms of service what that means in plain text: more likely than not, tweets/posts will be scraped more often by bots searching for things and doing God knows what with the data thereafter. this isn't new however - twitter/x allowed this feature before, but it was much more expensive (either $200 or $5,000 a month, depending on needs). so now that it's cheaper and more accessible to do, anyone can programmatically get your posts for $0.005 - meaning that if someone is looking for information about "Corn", and you're posting about "Corn", your post is worth half a penny, payable to the X platform. the bad news - many more people will use your posts against you in training data for LLM's, high frequency trading (nlp-trading models), and of course targeted advertising the good news- you read this post, you are now aware how this can impact you and your content/creativity and can do things to stop it - if you choose to (see below post of what it looks like when i looked up a term or two)

@burkov This explains a lot

Companies do everything to get rid of people. People are expensive, unpredictable, unreliable, lying, complaining, demanding. This is why companies use the cloud, which is 3 to 10 times more expensive than bare metal, even when they can afford full-time humans to take care of their own bare metal. The cloud neatly shields companies from people when it comes to their computing needs. This is why companies will use AI-generated code no one has ever read instead of having expensive, unpredictable, unreliable, lying, complaining, demanding human coders. Companies would rather automatically generate and regenerate code many times until it either works as expected or fails a reasonable fraction of time than put an additional meatbag on the payroll.

@_Riyatwt 64 or bust.

@GrainStats Too often.

It's been 3 years since AI took off How often do you go out of your way to use AI?

@GrainStats You lost me at live in MN

imagine pregaming here and hitching a ride on the BNSF for a wild night in town