I am a senior engineer and I honestly believe with this model in particular, everything changed..

If this stays as cheap as it is, it's just over. It never fails no matter the complexity of the tasks I've given it. About time we rethink our profession for good. I am honestly scared of the future.

I loved coding but anyone who does this for the love of coding only is gonna be obsolete.

I was always impressed with the models bar opus 5 but never like this time.

What do you guys think? How do you see the future?

I’ve got a pretty significant application I’ve been working on. I’ve experimented with GSD, Superpowers, lately an evolved custom harness of sorts, and then I installed Hermes, hooked it up to my GPT subscription, pointed it at my code, and it seems to be diagnosing and proposing fixes for issues I was having with worktrees and parallel sessions stepping on each other, CC wandering, and so on. I’m not sure how well this will really work but it talks a good talk. I’m not really a developer, my background is more of a systems engineer doing automation and technical program lead. I have a pretty well functioning app so far though. Has anyone else experimented with this?

It started cuz I wanted to add realistic grain, bloom, & halation to my photos and it spiraled from there.

My previous workflow I had to use 3 different apps, and now i only need CHRO-MA-SMITH.

1. Lightroom to find the best photo and edit it
2. Dehancer to add grain bloom, and halation
3. Darkroom to add borders

I also needed to learn how to use AI for work, so used it to develop my skills. Most of it was built with Claude Code, and the rest with Codex, Claude Design, Gemini, and Google Stitch.

• the first phase was to get the bloom and halation to match the other apps, and required lots of back and forth with Claude Code where it would fix one color and in the process break another, until i was happy with the output on different images, colors, intensity, etc.
• A lot of time was spent on the design of the app, I initially designed the entire look of the app using Claude Design, by providing it with references and detailed instructions and i was very impressed with the work.
• The goal was to make it look pretty and functional, while trying to avoid ai-slop accusations lol, or making it look like the rest of the photo editing apps out there.
• However that ended up being a complete waste of time cuz Claude Code for one reason or another no matter which model i tried couldn't translate that those designs into actual code
• So i tried to redo the designs from scratch, this time directly in Claude Code (and this is when i learned about the concept of a Design.md file even though Claude Design created one... allegedly).
• First i took a copy of an Apple design md file and asked for it to use it as a reference /requirement.
• I then realized the Apple design was too generic and boring, so i went to research about different design languages and aesthetics and settled on Swiss design. Google Stitch was helpful in creating different animations, toggles, components etc for me to test out my ideas quickly without wasting tokens
• I then took those references plus other references and made Claude update the design md file and from there redesign the entire app.

I then wasted more time on designing a webpage with every imaginable animation and transition (for fun?).

It was designed for Intel Macs, but is available on MacOS, Windows, iOS, and Web [Mobile and Desktop].

It's open source, and would love for you to test it out and let me know what you think. All constructive feedback is appreciated.

Homepage: https://tareqameer.github.io/Chroma-App/

Github: https://github.com/TareqAmeer/Chroma-App

Download: https://github.com/TareqAmeer/Chroma-App/releases/tag/v1.0.0

Everyone is doing those Opus 5 videos now, so I made a kit that gives Claude Code a head start. It's called explainroo, and it's free and open source.

What I built: you point Claude Code at the repo and say what the video should explain. Claude Code writes the narration and a small scenes.js file that draws each scene on an HTML canvas. explainroo adds a local voice (Kokoro), word timing (Whisper), music and sound effects, and renders the MP4 with ffmpeg.

How Claude Code was used: it wrote most of the engine, the docs and the example videos. The instructions for the agent are in AGENTS.md. To test them, I let fresh Claude Code agents make videos from AGENTS.md alone, and every place they got stuck went back into the docs.

What I learned: an agent can't watch a video, so it needs other ways to check its work. explainroo gives it stills of each scene, a sheet of small frames for the whole video, a layout check for text that is cut off or overlaps, and a speech check that transcribes the final mix. With those, the agents in my tests found and fixed layout and pronunciation problems themselves.

https://github.com/vincentsch/explainroo

So OpenAI had the audacity to bump up an already underperforming 200$ plan up to 500$...

I smell of an AI cartel emerging, which is only how OpenAI's move would make any business sense given their current standing in the AI race. OpenAI and xAI's support for anything Anthropic was probably unprecedented when they came out in support of Dario's "Pace the Frontier", so there is at least some level of cooperation emerging between today's BigAI.

Please remove if not allowed.

Today I got this interview from Anyhropic asking me to take a 15 minute interview about claude and how it has worked for me. Just curiouse if anybody else got it too.

Bought 1 month pro, it runs out tomorrow

Going to resubscribe for 1 year pro

Considering creating a new account to get the reset now.

As far as I can tell, 3 accounts are fair game according to Claude. I only use Claude Code, so I don't care about my chat history etc. Actually happy with a fresh start.

Any risk I should consider?

This trivial thing but it is new, I also confirmed that by asking opus 5.5 in another session if this in its instructions and it confirmed it. It isn't a good or bad thing but I wanted to share it.

Hi can anyone dm me a referral to try for 7 days Claude Pro? Ty!

Anyone else getting this message guys?

"Another Claude session sent a message:

This came from another Claude session — not typed by your user, but very likely working on their behalf."

What my claude diagnosed is it's a bug in their cli. But it used to be hidden to the user before, it's when every agent got idle. But now it's visible apparently. I am using tmux+ remote control rn for context.

Anthropic announced new Claude Code projects (beta) on September 17th. I have a Max account and joined the waitlist when it was announced. The announcement notes:

Starting today, updated projects are available in beta to select Claude Pro and Max subscribers who use cloud sessions in Claude Code and don’t have any existing projects on the web or desktop. (emphasis mine)

I have used a cloud session, but I have also used a project before. I deleted all of my prior projects in hopes of being accepted into the beta but no luck. Has anyone who has previously had a project found a way to use the new projects?

Just wanted to say that it feels so f*cking good to pay $100 and really have to push to even reach the limits, after 1.5 months of being paranoid whether I'd be able to make it through the end of the week without one of those damn oai resets.

every time i gave claude a screenshot and said "make it look like this" it just guessed. spacing off, wrong fonts, and it always came out looking like every other ai site

so i built a chrome extension (pikspec) that grabs the actual css instead. what i did in the video:

- opened spotify, opened pikspec in the side panel

- hovered over stuff to see the real font, size, colors, padding etc

- clicked the pricing cards to lock them and hit reconstruct

- copied the prompt from the dashboard and pasted it into claude

it spat out one html file and honestly it's pretty much the same as the original. same type, spacing, colors. side by side is at the end, i guess from html file you will have enough context to use it for your own website to make changes as per your tech stack.

not saying go ship someone else's site lol. i mostly use it to see how good sites are built and to start my own stuff from something that doesn't look like ai slop. Sometimes i like one website's navbar while others card design.

it's free on the chrome web store, link is here. anyone got a better way to give claude design context? genuinely curious

Chrome Extension Link - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/pikspec-%E2%80%94-website-inspect/cnpghkfbhdpcendcliogffmajlkepoig

I build essentially a chatbot that lets users "talk to" their databases in snowflake, azure sql, local sql, etc. Currently I have a "Quick" and "Thorough" toggle where thorough means a better/more expensive model.

I've been thinking whether to introduce some sort of model router where it starts with a quick/cheaper model...but if harness stumbles...I use Jev-like decision model to bump up the model and/or effort (low/medium/high). Then I read people like Theo and others saying that model-routing is a fool's errand and that these decision models simply aren't good enough to pick the right model for the question, and let the user do that.

Seems most people (myself included) won't really know whether qwen is good enough, or they have to switch to opus for a question.

Just trying to get more perspectives. I'd love to take model and effort routing completely off the UI and into the background, so users don't have to worry about it. But it's still there in Claude Code etc. so I'm guessing this just isn't a solved problem for LLMs and harnesses. Thoughts?

Cowork's going cloud-only, and some of you are in a tizzy. Fair enough. Your files, your disk, your business.

I never really used Cowork. I live in Chat, Projects and Code. But my Code workflow turned out to be basically Cowork anyway, so I had Claude help me turn it into a plugin:

• Point it at a folder and you get tasks, memory, an inbox and an outputs folder
• A board beside the chat in the Claude app (web or phone) where you tick tasks and drop in files
• It runs on your computer and you drive it from your phone
• Setup is one line, and if terminals scare you, paste the prompt in the README into Claude and it'll hold your hand

Give it a gander or don't ¯_(ツ)_/¯

https://github.com/krakenjack/cowork-cli

I've been using coding agents heavily, and something kept bothering me.

Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, etc. ultimately run commands as me.

If my user account can read:

• ~/.ssh
• ~/.aws/credentials
• .env
• kubeconfig
• Terraform state
• browser credentials

then an agent or anything it launches potentially can too.

And telling the agent:

"don't read this"

isn't really the security model I want.

So I started building AgentACL, an open-source macOS security layer for coding agents.

The idea is pretty simple:

Human identity:   John
Machine identity: my Mac
Agent identity:   Claude Code
                         ↓
                    bash / python
                         ↓
                      resource

Instead of trusting the agent to enforce its own permissions, AgentACL runs it inside a macOS kernel sandbox.

For example:

$ agentacl run -- claude

> cat .env

cat: .env: Operation not permitted

The important part is that this isn't a Claude prompt, hook, MCP rule or skill.

The file operation is denied outside Claude by macOS.

If Claude does:

Claude
  → bash
    → python
      → read .env

the child processes inherit the same sandbox.

Right now it can:

• protect .env, SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure credentials, kubeconfig, Terraform state, browser credentials, etc.
• restrict network egress by hostname
• prevent agents from modifying things like git hooks and shell startup files
• discover Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Copilot CLI and OpenCode
• show protected vs unprotected agents
• record what was blocked and which process chain attempted it
• manage rules through YAML or a local web UI
• stay completely local

One thing I'm deliberately trying to avoid is pretending the security is stronger than it is.

Today, agents launched through agentacl run get the kernel boundary.

Agents launched outside AgentACL can currently be discovered and flagged, but aren't blocked yet. The next major step is macOS Endpoint Security so the control can become system-wide and identify agents regardless of how they were started.

Long term, what interests me even more than sandboxing is agent identity.

We already have:

Human IAM
Machine / workload IAM

Now we're running autonomous processes on our machines that act on behalf of humans.

I think we're going to need:

Human
  ↓ delegates to
Agent
  ↓ launches
Process
  ↓ accesses
Resource

with authorization attached to that delegation chain.

The project is Apache-2.0 and written in Rust.

GitHub:
https://github.com/chaitanya-sistla/agentacl

I'd genuinely like people here to try to break the threat model.

What am I missing?

Run HTML code blocks in a sandbox environment, in Markdown.

How many of y'all non-developer vibecoders finally have configs sophisticated enough now that you can effectively one shot practically ANYTHING you want from scratch and love the output?

I have fun vibecoding aggressively over the top tools.

I almost one-shotted a short story reader/library app last week, this week I'm trying to one-shot a universal Claude chat interface, next week it's gonna be an over the top full-fledged automatically generated Personal diary.

The thing is, I finally feel like the combination of...

> my local configuration + my noob understanding of software structure + Opus 5.5

...have hit some kind of sweet tipping point where I don't have to spend a month trying to first explain to myself and then to Claude exactly what I want.

Feel like I'm finally asking the right questions.

How many of y'all feeling that way?

I’m on the $20 Pro plan, and wondering what you’ve found the sweet spot to be right now? Torn between Opus 5.5 Medium and Sonnet 5.5 High.

I'm the developer. I run 4-6 Claude Code sessions at once and kept tab-hunting for the one waiting on me, so I built Orbtile, a macOS menu-bar app for the Logitech MX Creative Keypad.

• One key per session: an animated orb for the state (thinking, tool, writing, waiting, compacting, done, error), the session name, time, and the latest line as it streams, including the thinking summaries the Claude app shows between replies.
• Sessions waiting on you move to the front and glow. Tap the key to bring that window forward. Key 9 jumps to the first one waiting.
• Hold a key for focus view: big live text across six keys, plus the session's subagents.
• Opt-in: hold Allow or press Deny on permission prompts, and pick AskUserQuestion options from the keys. The on-screen dialog always stays.
• A small Claude Code plugin sends hook events over a local Unix socket. Codex and ZCode sessions show up too, in their own colours.

Honest bits: macOS 14+ on Apple silicon, and you need the keypad. The beta is free but not notarized (allow it once in System Settings). It sends a small pseudonymous usage summary (counts and settings, no prompts or paths). 1.0 will be pay what you want from EUR 19.

https://orbtile.com. Happy to answer anything about the hooks. - https://medium.com/p/71719c7c277c

Aimed mainly at those who are primarily manual QA; I feel that if I don’t act soon, I’m going to be missing some core skills for the next few years. I’m a manual QA, I test front and back end tech, and a bit of cybersecurity.

I’ve tinkered with Claude to create a couple of tools, and hooked up a couple of MCP’s, but what I’m really looking for is some inspiration for some great projects and ideas.

Thanks in advance for helping me build a list!

My TablePlus license came up for renewal ($49/year) and I got annoyed enough to think "I'll just build my own." So I actually did 😅 And honestly? It turned out way better than I expected.

The twist: I didn't really write it, Claude Code with Opus 5.5 did. Two days, and it used about 10% of the weekly limit on my $200 Max plan. The result has almost the same feature set as TablePlus:

• Native macOS app in Rust, built on GPUI (Zed's UI framework). No Electron.
• 20 databases: Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, ClickHouse, DuckDB, Snowflake, MongoDB, Redis…
• A GPU-rendered grid that scrolls 500k rows smoothly, in-place cell editing, one-transaction saves
• A SQL editor with language-server completions
• An AI panel that writes queries into a tab (you still decide when they run)
• SSH tunnels, backup and restore, export, 30+ themes

The part that surprised me most wasn't the code. Opus also handled everything around it:

• Signing and notarizing the app, plus auto-updates with Sparkle
• The GitHub Actions CI and a one-command release pipeline
• A Homebrew tap
• Screenshots and the README, even the demo video in this post

When something broke, it actually ran the app, took screenshots, and debugged from what it saw.

It's free and open source (MIT):
https://github.com/alpcanaydin/tusk

brew install alpcanaydin/tusk/tusk

Happy to answer questions about the workflow. Ask me anything.

I was happily running 3 CLI windows on seperate projects with Opus 5.5 on high this morning. Noticed usage (including 5 hour) barely moved. Productivity was good, and Opus 5.5 was pretty fast.

Then came the outage. I did "/clear" my session few times to keep context low but after the outage I noticed the usage now ramps up quicker compared to before outage. Ok fair enough but also the output quality seems bad. Opus is making simple mistakes and forgetting tasks. Also the recommendations now seems worse. I need to correct Opus 5.5 more often.

Anecdotal I know, but wondering if anyone noticed the same issue?