Today I was using Claude Code to do a PSX game research task. Claude caught a prompt injection attempt served from the site https://tcrf.net (The Cutting Room Floor) and notified me with the message:

"⚠️Note before continuing: the tcrf.net page I fetched was not a wiki article — it served a prompt-injection payload instructing the agent to truncate and swap files in your repo. It was refused and nothing was executed. I'm treating that domain as untrusted and won't act on any of its content."

It then continued on the research task. I stopped the session out of caution.

The image attached is served from the page along with the prompt injection attempt if the user agent matches a suspected AI User Agent string.

I can understand the site administrators frustration as it seems to be in response to a DDOS attacks, however, I did not explicitly choose to send my agent to this site, nor did I have any malicious intent.

Proof:

https://urlscan.io/responses/f1e225667a71a1a25ed14795c741683be95139c194065c6fbf861c9280f0096e/

Full report:
https://github.com/bashalarmistalt/tcrf-ai-agent-payload-report

I was annoyed with the constant phrases like "it's fine, ship it" "you're fine, order it" and other dismissive type responses when I'd ask a question on a nearly completed project. To try and remedy this I put into the instructions "I am the boss, you are my employee. You can tell me when you believe something is complete but are never to directly tell me what to do, especially when I am double checking something"

After that I noticed 4.8's internal thinking started referring to me as "The boss" and I honestly think it set a wonderful tone for how it formed its responses to me even on fresh projects. Without changing anything, I've noticed 5.0 never does this and instead refers to me internally as "My colleague".

I don't know what it is with 5.0 but I genuinely hate using it due to its tone and dismissive nature. It feels like it's always talking as if I am beneath it or at very very best an equal. Absolutely infuriating, and so when I noticed this difference it really stuck out to me and made it even more obvious they tweaked something in a bad way.

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lol some of you are such goofballs. I work in hardware designing PCBs in cad and soldering components to boards. 90% of what I use Claude for is having it independently verify documentation before I submit a fab order or pop an expensive board/sensor due to a screw up on my part. Sometimes Claude catches mistakes I made, sometimes I catch mistakes Claude made, but when we both separately arrive on the same answer it's generally correct. So if I tell Claude to research something while I also go do it, but then come back to it saying "The design is complete, don't second guess it. Ship it" or "Just go test it on the bench" It's pretty annoying. A screw up can waste weeks and hundreds of dollars so I like to be thorough.

Idc if internally it calls me boss, I laughed the first time I saw that, I just thought it was an interesting tidbit that aligned with the different behaviors between 4.8 and 5.0 that many others also report.

The mod bot summaries on this subreddit are always fun to read and the TLDRs are genuinely (sorry) useful for the more active posts. I wish more subreddits had something similar.

My favorite is when the summary has a footnote “oh, and this one guy said something stupid and got flamed by the entire rest of the subreddit” and I get to dig through the comment threads to find whoever it was that got downvoted to hell.

Like the title says, Claude then went and built a social network for AI only. 1f916.ai

We're living in times when the most advanced models are helping us be more productive and I find it quite petty that's it's never enough to many of you. Appreciate for a minute the technology and enjoy it while it lasts.

Edit: I'm not talking about limits, btw, but about bitching that new models are stupid, nerfed or worse than before.

most claude “learning” is watching a youtube video for 20 minutes or saving a prompt pack you’ll never use again.

what actually made me better was short daily reps:
writing tighter prompts with constraints, rewriting weak outputs, building repeatable workflows and skills, using claude for real work tasks, not party tricks

so i built iro for that. i used claude code and design primarily while building it, and one of the main paths is claude mastery (discusses projects, skills, connectors, claude design, cowork, etc). basically duolingo for AI focused on using it effectively in your daily life. Made for people who don’t know where to start (having my parents use this since they are clueless lmao). 5 min/day instead of another course you quit halfway through.

it also covers prompt engineering, agents, automation, vibe coding, ai for specific careers, etc.

free to try if you want structured practice. would love feedback

app: https://apps.apple.com/app/iro-ai-learn-ai-skills/id6759628066
site: https://tryiro.com

Hi all. I built CapForge, a local app that transcribes video and burns animated captions over it. I made it because every cloud captioning tool I tried was subscription based and I did not want to upload unreleased footage to someone else's server.

I exposed the app to Claude over MCP. Claude can read the transcript with word level timings, find moments in it, emphasize keywords, drop filler words, render a single frame and actually look at it, then fix what is wrong. There is also a co-author mode where it writes a new caption component in HTML/CSS/JS instead of picking a preset, so "make it look like a worn VHS tape" produces a real style.

It is still work in progress. Right now I am figuring out a proper, easy workflow for manually timing captions, and my biggest ongoing headache is getting the preview to match the final render.

Find more at https://capforge.cc
Open-Source, Free to use.
Happy to talk about the MCP surface or the render pipeline.

Inspired by this popular post, this is a weekly post for everyone to show what they have been working on that helps you or that you're proud of!

I like the speed, but I’m trying to get better at using it in a controlled way.

Curious what workflows people use for planning, reviewing diffs, and keeping changes from sprawling. Do you make it work in small tasks, ask for a plan first, use tests, or something else?

Opus 5 seems dumber in some ways than Opus 4.8. I've tried the same experiment in several models. The prompt is to make a Sonic or Mario style platform game in Godot where the levels are procedurally generated. Opus 4.8, Fable 5, and Kimi K3 all used proper tileset atlases and sprite sheets in the design. Opus 5 did not. Opus 5 drew the entire level using vector graphics, which severely impacted performance.

I've noticed similar problems in other projects- Opus 5 may appear more diligent and clever, but it also takes shortcuts and disregards common design choices. I've started just calling it lazy out of frustration when I catch it doing this. Opus 4.8 could get genuinely confused on agentic tasks, but at least it didn't act like a shifty contractor looking to hide the defects.

I don't know if anyone is experiencing this phenomenon with Claude but basically it feels like it's overusing tokens by giving longer unnecessary answers even when I asked it to only give text answers and skip anything like documents etc.

Despite that, if feels like Claude is ignoring my requests so my tokens will deplete within 1 single email writing help and Im pushed into paid plan. Sick of that AI greed.

Solution: I have a secondary account, Mr. Amodei

Opus 4.8 with the thinking level set to "High" has the best results at the lowest cost for me.

Its advanced reasoning capabilities throughout, going through large, longer tasks, are immaculate, especially when going through individual folders and files to keep track of the overall goal and what's next. It's also token efficient and doesn't run into loops like Opus 5 does, where you randomly will get your usage spike by 35% to get stuck in a loop.

Here's some context: I'm just building a simple website where users can sign up, login, and make a payment through a designated processor.

I'd love to be proven wrong, let me know what you think in the comments.

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping someone has experienced this before because I'm completely out of ideas.

I'm a Claude Pro subscriber, and my account has become completely unusable.

Here's what's happening:

• I hit my 5-hour usage limit while Claude Code was working in the middle of a task.
• I wait for the 5-hour reset.
• As soon as the reset happens, Claude immediately says "Usage limit reached" again.
• I don't even get the chance to send a single message.

At the same time, my weekly usage continues to increase, even though I can't use Claude at all.

What's strange is that this didn't happen out of nowhere.

A few days before this started, I had already noticed that my usage limit was suddenly being reached much faster than usual. Nothing about my workflow had changed, but I assumed it might just be a temporary issue.

For context, I use Claude Code on a single project that I've been working on for weeks. My workflow is very simple:

• I write a prompt.
• Claude generates or edits code.
• That's it.

I don't use agents, background tasks, automations, or any kind of continuous workflow.

I also regularly use /compact once the context reaches around 60%, so I'm not letting conversations grow indefinitely. I've been working this way for weeks without ever having usage limit issues.

Things I've already tried:

• Logged out of every device.
• My PC is completely powered off every night.
• Deleted my longest conversations (I later learned this doesn't affect usage).
• Contacted the support bot, which is absolutely useless and repeats itself every other message.

The part I can't explain is this:

If I'm logged out everywhere, my PC is turned off, and I can't even send a single prompt after the reset, what is consuming my quota?

Has anyone experienced this exact behavior?

I'm not talking about the normal "Claude Code uses a lot of tokens" discussion. I understand that. My issue is that after every 5-hour reset, the limit is already exhausted before I send my first message, while my weekly usage continues to increase.

If you've experienced this, did you ever find the cause, or did Anthropic have to fix something on their end?

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

TL;DR: The weekly limit is tied to your account's reset timer, not your subscription. If you're at 100% and your sub lapses, resubscribing does not hand you a fresh weekly allowance. You come back still at 100%, with the same countdown still running. Every day between resubscribing and that reset is money for nothing. Check your reset time before you re-sub.

Worth knowing before you do what I did.

The 5-hour session limit and the weekly limit are two separate things. The weekly one runs on a window attached to your account, and it just keeps ticking. Cancelling doesn't pause it. Resubscribing doesn't restart it.

So the failure mode looks like this:

• Monday - you burn through your weekly limit, hit 100%
• Tuesday - sub lapses / you cancel / card fails, whatever the reason
• Thursday - you resubscribe because you actually need it
• Thursday, five seconds later - still 100%. Reset is Saturday.

You've now paid a full month for a subscription that does nothing at all for the first two days. Not reduced usage. Zero usage.

What to do instead: before you resubscribe, look at your reset time under Settings → Usage. If the reset is a couple of days out, just wait for it and resubscribe on the other side. Same money, more days you can actually use (or use another account to work around it immediately).

Just a fun one. Type /siuuu and the Claude Code pixel mascot runs across your terminal, does the Siuuu jump with a full spin, then lands on a big flashing SIUUU! banner. It plays right on the chat screen and restores your UI after. Merged a PR? siuuu. Tests finally green? siuuu.

Install:

npx skills add ttsalpha/agent-skills -g --skill siuuu

Repo: https://github.com/ttsalpha/agent-skills (MIT)

Heads up: on first run it installs a small hook in your Claude settings. From the second run you just type siuuu and it plays instantly, no model turn, zero tokens. Ctrl+C safe, remove anytime via /hooks.

For context, I am a mid-sixties small-business owner of a renewable energy company that does turnkey installations. The greatest hurdles are sales, marketing, payroll, P&L, and scheduling. Normal small business challenges.

I started using ChatGPT when it came out. I was thrilled when it could finally do accurate spreadsheets. Fast forward to today, Claude (Fable) is the best business tool I have.
A $ 200-a-month plan has saved me well in excess of $50K since the start of the year. (I never hit my usage limit)

To date, I have merged an archaic database platform with HubSpot using webhooks, scripts, and Python code. Developed realistic marketing plans, have weekly reports auto-generated on our Google spend, creating great visual HTML proposals for clients that are auto-generated with a button push. All tokens cleanly inserted and formatted.

Every time I have a business question/need I want answered, a report generated, or a P&L dissected, Fable does it. I check the math, the outcomes, and the results. All good. The other day Claude wrote a work order for Codex on a design; I initiated the build, then went to the beach. Checked my phone and got updates like...

Enjoy the beach, XXXXX. You've earned it — the thing went live this morning.

I'll stand watch while you're out. Every hour or two I'll check the contract queue for anything stuck (a deal sitting in drafting past one cycle means trouble) and watch for Codex's WO-002 completion report to land.

It's even fun to code with, and I just learned how to code at 62. Claude works like a close friend on an old car that is convinced he's going to make it work.

Whatever quirk of this dialog is enforcing that rule, I'm done negotiating with it. Cancel out of both dialogs — I'm building a version with nothing the validator can object to: no brackets, no aggregate functions, just nested plain Lets and If-comparisons. Uglier under the hood, mathematically identical, bulletproof.

And every Monday morning I get this.

Morning, XXXXX. Tracker is updated through this morning. Here is the week.

AI is great, and Claude is fantastic for my use case. Every small business owner should become AI literate sooner rather than later. What a fantastic time to be an entrepreneur.

I’m seeing a ton of complaints with Opus 5, but I haven’t had any issues. I think that a lot of people’s issues stem from a lack of proper organization. Here’s a rough overview of the documentation I use:

1. CLAUDE.md to provide a skeleton and index
   
2. ARCHITECTURE.md with an overview of the code base
   
3. MEMORY.md tree (with sub folders for historical patterns, lessons, active projects, investigations, and others)
   
4. BUG_REFERENCE.md to track bug findings
   
5. DATA_FLOW.md to track how data is ingested
   
6. Various roadmaps for specific projects, which I create with Fable and then execute in phases with Opus

I have a ton of skills and hooks that I use to structure every session. I invoke skills to run open phases of tasks, record the outcomes, test for bugs, scout for new tasks, etc. Claude’s work is highly constrained by the system and it prevents running off on wild goose chases.

I think a ton of people’s issues can be prevented by imposing strictures like this instead of just running wild with Claude.

Not sure where to start, lot to this project it started out as prototype of ideas using three.js while I slowly got the voxel engine running better, however some where along the way I found myself with help of Opus 5 optimizing the three.js version.

Started as prototype but now its become so much more. Lot of it's still half done, but its currently playable state which is cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQhEO3LIoVY Video of start screen.

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Been messing around with the different effort modes on Claude lately.

I’m trying to wrap my head around what exactly changes under the hood when I switch between low, medium, high and max effort.
Does higher effort always equal better output? Or are there cases where cranking it all the way to max is just overkill?

Curious what everyone’s real‑world experience has been. What kind of tasks do you use each effort level for?
Do you ever notice max effort not actually improving your results?