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About me: benbrooks.me My writing: brooksreview.net CEO @ terrakata.io Living in: Boulder, CO

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Fuckers

16.02.2026 21:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The thing is. Claude is just by far the best tool for the job like 95% of the time.

16.02.2026 18:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Me: I’m probably good with going back down from Claude Max.
Claude: ha ok if you think so
Claude: 4hrs off being in max β€œyou’ve reached your limit”
Me: I’ll wait
Me: 60min later, fuck it, back to Max.

(I also pay for Gemini and various APIs ugh)

16.02.2026 18:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Discord is the worst iOS app I use daily. Won’t even open on my phone today. Point to this bullshit whenever someone says β€œno one needs native iOS development”

05.02.2026 16:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

All current public evidence points to Tim Cook supporting ICE.

29.01.2026 00:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Moltbot is simply carefree with its token use and it still often fails on tasks and has to be prompted to try again.

Literally used the Claude Mac app to clean out the BS Moltbot created. Lol

28.01.2026 03:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Played with Clawdbot / Moltbot all day today on a Mac Mini. Compared it to a similarly styled app I vibe coded. In the past few days my vibe coded app used about $3 of tokens via Open AI on a mixture of cheap and expensive models.

Moltbot hit $7 just today on a very cheap models.

28.01.2026 03:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds like you’d need an XL for that much. L might fit it but it would be a squeeze.

31.12.2025 01:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

its so funny to me that serial plagiarist Benny Johnson just stole Tucker Carlson's whole schtick

13.11.2025 16:57 πŸ‘ 121 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

iOS/iPadOS 26.1 allows you to disable swipe to open camera from the lock screen, I always hated that gesture, good riddance. (Settings > Camera)

04.11.2025 15:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

iCloud sync used to be magic. Now I spend a lot of time staring at my iPhone’s Photos app waiting for it to sync 1 photo and then staring at my iPad waiting for it to pick up that one photo.

Then I go use my open source, self-hosted, photo app and it’s synced everything before iCloud launched.

02.11.2025 16:04 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This version is now Remind Me Fasterer.

21.10.2025 13:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My member intel this week includes at what elevation it’s ok to wear certain outer layers, making it perhaps one of the most CO based style guides out there.

13.10.2025 13:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m not the product.

08.10.2025 15:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Claude v. GPT-5
- GPT-5: β€œwow that was fast, but not really what I asked but kind of, don’t be lazy”
- Claude: β€œmy dude, I just wanted a quick short answer, not a dissertation on it, could you chill a little”

24.09.2025 14:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I love this bag.

23.09.2025 13:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Happy to test out if you need a TestFlight user, I use your app more than Reminders itself, haha.

23.09.2025 13:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey I love your app, like so much, but in iOS 26 I get a persistent lag and a spinner while it looks for lists. Which means I can’t launch the app and start typing, I have to wait. This happens more on my M4 iPad Pro than it does on my iPhone, but I still see it there. Advice?

23.09.2025 13:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The profits are going to be on creating tools to connect your life to LLMs.

25.08.2025 14:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Haha. Oh no.

11.07.2025 22:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

For sure. And while I’m not a Musk fan, the progress they’ve made on grok is seriously staggering.

11.07.2025 22:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Reasonable explanation but doesn’t do anything to build any level of trust in grok such that I’d want to use it over the other models. Top of the benchmarks or not. Which is likely going to be a big problem when they need to sort out making money.

11.07.2025 22:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Will be telling about so much when the next board next hires Yaccarino.

09.07.2025 22:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.

05.07.2025 10:19 πŸ‘ 9781 πŸ” 3710 πŸ’¬ 1429 πŸ“Œ 712
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Live updates: Search and rescue underway after 24 killed and at least 20 girls missing in Texas flooding The flooding in Kerr County, Texas, killed at least two dozen, while Camp Mystic on the banks of the Guadalupe River had several girls unaccounted for.

Flooding in Central Texas has killed at least 24 people and at least 20 girls attending a summer camp are missing, officials said.

05.07.2025 14:17 πŸ‘ 835 πŸ” 274 πŸ’¬ 143 πŸ“Œ 30
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I am sorry to tell you folks…

24.06.2025 14:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I got angry enough to write about why you should never let the sales team run the app strategy.

24.06.2025 14:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I used to be fluent in Japanese and was using it to brush up and thought it was not good.

20.06.2025 22:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I heard this went out of stock and I think the brand might be on a well deserved vacation. But, I stand by the fact that you can’t spend any amount of money to get something better than this for the office. And some would say I’ve *tested* way too many backpacks.

20.06.2025 15:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why CEOs are using AI to scare workers CEOs warn the new technology could make many workers obsolete, while urging them to start using it right away.

Chief executives are giving employees an AI fright β€” warning them the new technology could make many workers obsolete.

20.06.2025 12:58 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0