More Opus 4.7 thoughts: I have found myself bloating my app-specific guidelines with rules that are aimed at getting the LLM to do its job, rather than understanding my app. Eg: "Do not refuse to develop a feature because there is not yet a consumer of that feature."
Anther example of Opus 4.7 going to shit. It is struggling to distinguish basic scopes of user interaction. It confuses our requirements as a developer/agent pair with that of the eventual post-deployment user of the system. I have to explain the difference... We haven't built it yet, Claude! 🫠
My thoughts on Opus 4.7: Obviously brilliant at architecture, planning and coding. However, when it comes to understanding intent and reading between the lines conversationally, it is from another planet. Always getting wires crossed. Feels like a huge backward step from 4.6.
Are the BoM temperatures along the Great Ocean Road towns correct? Saying 25-27 devs when the predicted around 40. 41 here in Melb.
This will install any Claude plugin or skill into your web-based Claude chat without going through the capabilities -> upload process. Works just for the one chat session. Allows complex multi-skill plugins with commands - normally the domain of Claude Code. gist.github.com/discreteds/5...
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GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
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Has a test century ever been scored under a full moon before?
First day of summer! *puts on shorts and t-shirt* *shivers all morning* *checks weather app* 'Feels like' 6 degrees at midday.
LLM coding is making software creation accessible to a shit ton of people that otherwise would never make software — lots of underrepresented types of people/creators will start to make things we might not have seen otherwise thanks to a greater diversity of perspectives that is a very good thing
Him: Technically the piano is just a harp in a box. Me: You’ll find yourself in a box sooner rather than later.
𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜@unfitz.bsky.social · last yr.Him: Technically the piano is a percussion instrument. Me: Technically the piano is a murder weapon. Just ask Wile E. Coyote.
It has been a bit dry in Victoria lately so not as many saffron milkcap mushrooms as past years, but the quality and form of those we found today were the best we’ve ever found.
Pruritanical (adj.) Usage: - He was so pruritanical that I broke out in a rash just listening to him.
If you were in doubt that Australia and Canada are at two ends of the same wormhole: Two opposition party leaders lose their seats in each election a week apart. Conservative and NDP. Liberal and Greens. That’ll never happen again!
If you're feeling down, please remember the Viennetta ice cream video set to Darude's Sandstorm
TIL that Pink Floyd's Another Brick in The Wall part 2. is a disco track! Listen to the beat - it checks out...
Seems the data ecosystem in the Canadian election is pretty abysmal. In exploring riding results there is no: - comparison with votes from the last election - metric for percentage of (likely) votes counted It is basically impossible to get any context.
Feeling a little bit nervous watching the Canadian election with two seats flipping conservative early. Difficult to find an election tracker that shows the swing at a riding level though to get context.
A dataviz that absolutely nails how we’re no longer in 2-party preferred land (and haven’t been for quite a while). Next, how to capture the 3-body-problem chaos of preferences as every dot moves toward the centre... @caseybriggs.com
casey briggs@caseybriggs.com · last yr.This humble little triangle explains the big shift in how we vote over 50 years. My latest: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
This is a good watch, and a reminder of the good things about #Melbourne... at least the CBD and inner areas and even many of the train suburbs. It's also a reminder for us locals to keep advocating for better planning and transport outcomes for more parts of our city (and regional cities).
Ray Delahanty | CityNerd@nerd4cities.bsky.social · last yr.Man this video took a long time to make. Loved every second of it nebula.tv/videos/cityn...
My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more: www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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Matt Johansen@mattjay.com · last yr.🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
Do this AND put the libs last. ... or at least as low as you can amidst the other crazies.
It's Not A Race@itsnotarace2025.bsky.social · last yr.If you don't want Dutton to win, vote strategically. It's easy. #auspol #election2025
The thing that finally, totally 🤯 about the tariff calculation is that it completely ignores the goods involved and only looks at the $. If I sell you my iphone for $1000, and you sell me your pencil for $1 that’s a couple of fair trades.
Calling this US administration ‘a bunch of muppets’ would be an insult to all muppets and the musty smell of stale sweat embedded in the materials they are made from and the bags they are stored in.
WIRED@wired.com · last yr.NEW: Donald Trump announced the US was imposing reciprocal tariffs on a small collection of Antarctic islands that are not inhabited by humans, as part of a global trade war aimed at asserting US dominance. The Heard and McDonald Islands are known for their populations of penguins.