Merlin

One of the best pieces of advice I ever got: If you want a calmer life, you need to address small problems while they’re still small. The cost of dealing with an issue rarely gets cheaper with time. Procrastination turns uncomfortable things into unavoidable things.

Every other day I log on to this app there's a defi hack and people lose their money. Can't be the future of finance. How does defi evolve to a point where there's better security and funds are safu? I guess never, because decentralization comes at a cost?

Alcohol gives you the ambition to do anything, while simultaneously taking away your ability to do so. Coffee on the other hand, gives you the feeling that you can take on the world, and gives you the boost to do whatever you got in mind. Caffeine wins.

`tabular-nums` should be the default for any number that updates ( timers, counters, prices, percentages, scores, live data etc ). you can enable this tnum OpenType feature using the CSS property `font-variant-numeric`. .tabular-nums { font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; }

Very interesting

@Loopify It'll continue developing at the pace at which it supports returns. AI companies are raising and burning a lot of money, and the true costs of those models are higher than what's being charged today. I think it'll slow down in some areas and accelerate in others like defence.

I don’t actually disagree with this article but I feel like it misses a big point. To assume AI will continue increasing at this pace and quality would mean it’s useless to even try learn about it. It’ll get so good being ahead of the curve for 1 year doesn’t matter. So why even try to learn about it if it eventually replaces most people and we end up in a world of UBI? The rich should preserve their capital, and I am not sure what the rest of the world should do. A time of true uncertainty.

Google changed usage limits for Claude in Antigravity and the app suddenly lost its appeal. Why bother with Antigravity when Windsurf and Cursor are better and now cost less?

The solution to anxiety is action.

One of the worst things about crypto is having to connect your wallet to view non-personalized sections of dapps, and to claim airdrops. What do you mean "Connect your wallet and sign the transaction to check your eligibility?" It's irresponsible.

A great day to read about the death of infofi. There'll still be slop, but less incentivized slop.

@rauchg This is so true. Code is no longer the moat - it's support, convenience, and intangibles like brand that matter these days.

There's an app I use regularly that's defective. I'm weighing in my mind whether I should send feedback and hope it gets attention from its creators, or re-build it with AI from scratch. This is a tiny app so it's plausible for me to do it. But if you're in the business of selling software, this is how your every customer is thinking now, or how they'll be thinking soon. Iteration velocity matters more than ever before. How quickly you fix, improve, and ship is your counter-signal.

@gmoneyNFT Just follow @bcherny if you aren'talready. He built it.

trying to get on claude code x feed, like this to help us both out.

Funny how CT seems to have pivoted to agentic coding, and airdrop threadoors are now writing about how to use Claude Code. Tbh, it's a better use of their reach. Way more productive, even if not everyone is cut out for building stuff.

Vibe coding in the strict sense, is a trojan horse that will create the largest number of new software developers in history. You'll go from typing "build me a calendar app and make it nice", to learning about git, CLIs and IDEs, diffs, PRDs, and databases.

@forgebitz Valuable is relative. Can non-technical people use it (in its various wrappers) to build things that help them? Yes-based on how good their prompting skills are. Will it one-shot a complex enterprise app for you? No, and it shouldn't, because that's an unrealistic expectation.

as much as a love claude opus i can't believe people can just vibe code valuable things without coding idk i still have to do a lot of back and forth, edits, give it context

@revenueghost7 @SahilBloom Very correct

That's right, with one difference: productive flexibility versus destructive compromise. I myself have made this mistake in the past. I had rigid standards that didn't make sense in context, and I also saw people refusing to adapt when adaptation was reasonable, calling it “standing their ground” when in fact it was just stubbornness. And that created certain problems in my life until I learned to distinguish between these concepts. Erosion occurs when compromises are made on important things — on things that are non-negotiable, on standards that define who you are. Some flexibility is not erosion. It is reasonableness. It's knowing when a situation calls for an exception and when it calls for weakness. The difficulty lies in being honest about what you're doing. Most people can't tell the difference, so they either remain rigid and inflexible or collapse completely because they never adhered to real standards.

I’m increasingly convinced that your standards decide your future. Every time you let something slide “just this once,” you train yourself to accept less. That’s how goals erode. That's how principles slip. Set your standards. Hold the line. Especially when it’s hard.

@bcherny @karpathy Oh okay. Nice.

@GuardMerlin @karpathy Yes, code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop

👋 Hi I'm Boris and I work on Claude Code. I am going to start being more active here on X, since there are a lot of AI and coding related convos happening here. Feel free to tag me with Claude Code feedback or bug reports. Love to hear how y'all are using Claude Code, and what we can do to make it even better.

@bcherny @karpathy Any plans to make Claude desktop more powerful? It could be a lot more flexible, almost like Cursor.

@karpathy Added! In the next version of Claude Code, you can use the CLAUDE_CODE_FILE_READ_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS env var. eg. "CLAUDE_CODE_FILE_READ_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS=1234567 claude" You can also add this to the "env" section in your settings.json

An incredibly interesting read.

Starting at midnight PT tonight, all Pro and Max plans have 2x their usual usage limits through New Year's Eve.